Little Falls herald., 1898-08-05
Letter from Secretary Of
State Board Of
Health.
:
That fourth POLICEMAN
Evidence that the People
Want Four Police OFF,
GERS.
STATE HEALTH BOARD.
SECRETARY AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
St. Paul, Mlnn.. July IL, 1898.

SECRETARY AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
St. Paul, Mlnn., July IL, 1895.
DR.. G. NJ. A. Fortier.
My DEAR DocToR: l was pleased on
my visit to your place last week to note
the interest you have shown in sanitary
matters. I would urge upon you, in
connection with this work. the enforce
ment OF certain sanitary measures.
Your water supply is taken from the
river. A drink OF this water was not. in
my Judgment, at all palatable. The dis
agreeable flavor was quite persistent.
The fact may have been due to the
heavy rains we have had this season.
You cannot be too careful, however, in
guarding your water supply. Iu this
connection, let me urge upon you the
necessity OF ordering closed all vaults or
cesspools which might by any possibii-
itv empty their contents into the river.
You should not permit the location of
privies, priyy vaults or cesspools along
the river bank.
In regard to the disposal OF m anure, it
would seem that the farming country
about Little Falls should use the manure
accommodating within your village limits.
It has been intimated to lie that the
farmers formerly hauled the manure
from the village, but that Of late, be-
cause OF the mixture OF sl0ps and house
garbage with the manure the disposal
OF the manure was interfered with. |
would advise that you regulate, by
rule OF your board or by a village ordi-
nance, +he, disposal OF slops and garbage.
OF course, these products in small guam
titles are not Objectionable when mixed
with manure, but it ,,ould be better to
require such kitchen waste to be dis
posed OF separately.
Manure that is not hauled of promptly
to farms should, be removed to some un-
Objectionable place controlled by the
city. and at times burned. There shou uld
be no disposal OF dead animals, etc., at
such public dump.
Manure may, under certain conditions,
be used for filing iu low places, provided
these low places are not likely to be
built over later, and further, that no
such filing is done without covering the
surface promptly with soil, sand or
gravel. Such filing should not be al
lowed during the hot summer months.
OF course, you, as the execu tive officer
OF your board, are the one to deal with
all nuisances. etc. The knowledge Of an
existing nuisance coming to you through
complaint or otherwise, should be dealt
with promptly by you. A legal notice
should be served by you upon the prop
erty owner where the nuisance exists,
and if such notice is not promptly OBJ
served, it is your duty to abste the
nuisance and to charge the expense of
such abatement against the property
upon which the nuisance existed
You have sewers in parts Of you viii
lage 1t may not be necessary to re-
require every little dwelling house aloug
the line of such sewer to connect, but no
building OF any size, and rtainly no
public place like a hotel, store, saloon,
etc., should be allowed to continue the
use OF cesspools or vaults, when such
buildings are near sewers. An order
should be served upon owners OF such
places to make sewer connections within
a reasonable time, and all vaults and
cesspools cleaned out and filled up.
In dealing with Infectious diseases it is
your duty TO post a quarantine notice
upon any house where such disease ex-
lists aud to see that quarantine regular
tions are carried out, under penalty OF
the law. .. s.~..
In the mattera of renorting births and