The record-union., 1898-10-05
CITYS SANITARY CONDITION.
FAVORABLE REPORT BY THE
HEALTH OFFICER.
The City Board of Hea1th's Plan
for Regulating the Removal
OF Garbage.

The regular monthly meeting of the
City Board of Health was held last
night, there being present Drs. Ross,
Nichols, Parkinson, Fay and Hender-
son.
| Inc City Physicians report showed
that during the month of September
there had been 81 deaths, as against
81 for August, and SO for September
1897. The annual death rate for the
month was 12.40 per 1000 inhabitants.
| One death from typhoid fever was re-
ported, and five cases of diphtheria.
The report concludes as follows:
| During the vacation most Of the
schoolhouses have been renovated by
| cleaning, painting and the placing of
water filters. The work of putting in
new closets at Fourth and @ streets,
however, is progressing rather slowly,
| put promises to be a great improve
| ment When completed The general
health of the city is improving, but
few cases of diphtheria and none of
scarletina being reported, and cases of
| fever decreasing''
Milk, Food and Market Inspector Me-
goWan reported that he had inspected
! the surrounding dairies, as per in
structions, and found the sanitary con-
dluons and the water supply good. The
| butcher shops in the city were also in
good condition, as were all the slaugh-
ter-houses, except one.
The report showed that he had made
l32 sample tests Of milk delivered by
da1ries. All were above the test. His
samples of milk served at restaurants
showed that at eight of them the ar
| ticle served was below test.
DR.. Henderson, representing the COM
mittee appointed to report upon a plan
by which the garbage cart and its
noxious freight might be kept off the
streets during the day, handed in the
following proposed ordinance for regu-
| lating the matter:
| 'It shall be unlawful and a misde-
meanor for any person to transport af-
ter o'clock a. m. and before s O'Clock
p. m. on, in, along or across any street
or sidewalk within the limits of the
! city of Sacramento, any garbage,
kitchen refuse, night soil, swilI or any
other matter offensive to the sight or
smell, or to place or transport between
the hours Of s o'clock p m. and Z
o'clock a. m. on, in, along, or across
any street or sidewalk within the city
| Of Sacramento any garbage, kitchen
refuse, night soil, swill, or any othef
matter offensive to the sight or smell,
unless the same be contained in water
tight vessels having covers so fitted
that no liquid matter and no gaseous
exhalations will escape therefrom dur
ing transportation"
| After a long discussion the matter
was re-referred to the committee with
| instructions to again report at the next
regular meeting.
| DR.. Henderson said that the monthly
mortuary reports were not as explicit
as they should be, and often left doubt
as to the actual cause Of deaths re-
ported. He thought physicians report
ing deaths ought to be instructed to
give the specific cause of all deaths re-
ported, and moved that the Committee
on Vital Statistics, composed of Drs.
Ross and Parkinson, prepare forms to
| be submitted to the board for future
reports. The motion was carried.
| Drs. Henderson and Mcgowan YER
bally reported that splenetic fever was
raging at a dairy ranch twelve miles
up the river on the Yolo side. A full
| account Of the report will be found
! in another column