The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-15
A MODEL LOOKUP.
North Brookfeld is
Proud Of It's Fine
Record.
WORK OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Results Are Excellent For
the Amount of Money
Expended.
WORK OF The BOARD OF HEALTH.

Brookheld is pre-eminently a quiet law
abiding town. So says lookup keeper
Edward ]. Dunphy, and he ought to
know. Officer Dunphy's "reminiscences
were aroused this afternoon, prepare
tory to giving the lookup a much need
ed coat of whitewash, as a special in
ducement to transients, he said.
In conversation with The Spy re-
porter. he said that in two months
there had been but one prisoner at the
lookup, and not tramp has sought it's
shelter, though it is but natural that
men of the "tired Tim type should
give such a place wide berth in the
warm weather.
Officer Dunphy said that in his opin-
ion very few towns of 5000 inhabitants
could show such a record as this, and
added that the citizens could well be
proud Of this record.
DR.. George r. Spooner, clerk of the
board of health, does net deny the truth
of the statements made through The
Spy this morning by Jacob Martin in
regard to the case of H. Splaine and
company, which has caused so much
interest in town. Neither does he de-
ny the statement made by Mr.. Splaine
to the effect that when the child of Do
Tor Stone fell a victim to the fatal raw
ages of diphtheria, Dr. Spooner told
Mr.. Splaine to go and take the body
to the cemetery.
DR.. Spooner does insist, however,
that he never gave to Mr.. Splaine any
authority to remove the bodies with
a 70 In n
reimburse for the work done.
The Spy reporter called on DR.. Spoon
er this afternoon to get his version of
the Martin case, and the doctor readily
admitted that he might have told Mr..
Martin to hasten and get Mr. Splaine
to remove the body. In case that he
did, he says that it was because he
naturally supposed or knew that Mr..
Splaine was the undertaken the family
was going to employ. His whole, de-
sire was, he says, to have the body in
TERED as quickly as possible, SO as to
prevent any spread of the oontagion
DR.. Spooner says that he does not re-
member for certainty what words he
used, as the case occurred a long time
ago, and at the time he never expected
any controversy. His natural suppose
ton was, he says, that the family
would pay whatever undertaken was
employed.
But If Mr.. Splafne had been author
lied to do the work by myself or the
board of health" added the doctor, 81
cannot understand why he did not pre-
sent his bill to the board Of health in
stead of to the selectmen. 1t seems to
me that If we authorized him to do the
work he would have brought his bill to
US the same as every one does whom
we employ"
The average citizen does not thor
oughly appreciate the work done in
cleaning UP the town by the board of
health, nor how judicious1y the health
officers have expended the $500 appro-
priated for it's use at town meeting.
This afternoon The Spy reporter took a
ride through Canada" with DIR. Thos.
]. Garr1gan, chairman of the health
board, and noted the various improve
ments. The filthy sewer ditch which
runs along the east side of the common
and down behind the high school build
ing, has been covered up almost for its
entire length in this section.
four-inch pipe has been put in at
the lower end and instead of the dis
agreeable and foul, stagnant water
that polluted the air previously, every
th1ng is now clean and not an odor can
be detected.
On st. John street the change in the
looks and in the atmosphere is also
very pronounced, and is decidedly for
the better. The road is as dry as the
crowd that goes to East Brookfield Sat
urday nights, and there is none of the
highway utilized for sink drain, as
was the case a few months ago. Pipes
have been laid to carry off the waste
water, with the result that the condi-
ton of that section has been vastly i'm
proved.
AS thorough a piece of work has been
done on North Common street as any
where. At the east end where the
street is steep hill, a catch basin has
been put in which takes the sewage
from Worcester street, and a pipe is con-
tinued down the hill so that the change
in the aspect is something remarkable
On Central street also a good piece of
work has been done in covering UP the
drain that flows southerly toward the
big shop. DIR. Garrigan expressed him
self highly pleased at the way the work
has been done, and gives it as his opin-
ion that the town Is permanently berfe-
flied thereby. The doctor clings to his
opinion that some system of sewerage
is much more a necessity than lux
ury, but says he does not see how the
town can afford it for eight or ten
years to come.
Ii we could have obtained $4,000 in
stead of $780," he said, I'VE could have
fixed the matter so that the town would
not need to worry about improper sew
erage for at least eight years more. .
Nearly all the appropriation has been
expended, but 1t is the intention to i'm
prove the sanitary condition Of Bell
street next.
Horace J. Lawrence believes that the
agitation he started toward having an
electric light placed at the North
Brookfield terminus of the w., B. & S.
st. r. R., is going to bear fruit. Today
Mr.. Lawrence had a conversation
with Assistant Superintendent Barnes.
in regard to the matter and learned
that the company takes a fair view of
the matter, and will probably put an
arc light at this end of the line.
Contractor O'Brien of Spencer will