The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-09

as the case may be- Before such dis
charge the effluent should be effective
~ clarified by one of the various well
known methods so that it would carry
only its dissolved impurities. The
! amount of sea water flowing into and
| out of the harbor at each tide is about
3.Uo0 times that of a days discharge of
! the clarified sewerage of the harbor
slope of the city, so that the dilution
viii be immediate and more than COM
plete.
Third-Fill up all the private and
Kitchen waste vaults and supply every
house with an adequate water closet
connected with the public sewerage
system. The closets so furnished
should be only what is adequate and
necessary for the purposes now served
by the vaults. Anything beyond this
to be put in by the householder Under
proper supervision at his own cost.
fourth-PaVe or re-pave all the
streets in the best manner with asphalt.
t1fth-Provide a completely appointed
abattoir for large and small animals,
adequate for all the needs of the popu-
lation.
Sixth-Provide a suitable and suf-
ficient incinerating furnace for the
complete and inoffensive destruction of
garbage and other refuse, including
street sweepings, also of all dead ami
mails including horses and oxen.
SeVenth-Reclaim all the marshes, at
least those between the Calsada de
Vfver and -Regla, about 500 acres, which
will involve the care of the drainage
from about 600 acres. This reclamation
to be made after the ''Polder" method
Of Holland, by dyking out the harbor |
and the water courses and moving the |
water by pumping.
Eighth-Establish an electric power |
plant sufficient for this pumping, for |
pumping sewerage where necessary and |
for propelliSg the machinery of the |
say SOO-horse power in all.
ESTIMATE OF COST.
Colonel Waring states that it is not |
possible from the data now available
to estimate the cost of all the work
indicated above more nearly than to
say that it will not exceed $4,000, 000
1t has been estimated, continues
Colonel Waring, that single epidemics
Introduced to the United States from
Havana have cost in the Mississippi
Talley alone 500 ,000, 600 in loss to in
iustries and to commerce, aside from
he loss of life, amounting in 1878 and
$40 TO 1891, in addition to the
.normous cost of the sickness of those
Who recovered. Colonel Waring further
states that in his judgment the COM
'lete execution of the work above in
Heated would completely eradicate
Fellow fever from Havana for all time,
would relieve it from the malaria which
S now so fatal, and would reduce its
formal death rate from its present
Ugh figures (nOt far from fifty per
to about twenty per thou
and. He says if these improvements
re TO be made there must be no delay I
nd no halfway measures. All that is
must be done in the best and l
lost complete manner and it must all l
e done before June l, 1899. If it is not /
IL done, there is every reason to fear
hat yellow fever will be rife in Ha-
ana next season, because of the large |
lumber Of unprotected persons who l.
-ould go there, trusting to the eff I
cheney of the partial carrying out of t
he work. The mortality of the city of t
Lavana for the week ending Oct. 6. a
I9S, was 535, an annual rate of 1895 b
or thousand ii