The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-02
HEALTH OF COUNTY
Sanitary Districts Established BY
the Commissioners.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
URGES ACTION.
County Is Divided Into Four SAM
tary Districts, With a Health Off
Ger In Charge of Each-Action on
Road Matters-Fixing Fees For
Post Mortems.

The board of county commissioners
yesterday made a move toward dividing
the county into sanitary districts, Gre
ating district boards of health and
adopting rules and regulations for the
suppression of infectious and contagious
diseases. The need of action in the
premises was suggested last week in a
note of warning from DR.. I. B. Beatty,
! secretary of the state board OF health
County Physician H. A. Anderson was
delegated to devise the necessary plan
of action, and yesterday that official
submitted a very voluminous set of
rules and regulations in the interest OF
public health, with recommendation
that the same be enacted into an ordi-
nance and officially published.
The measure proposes that the county
outside of Salt Lake City be divided
into four sanitary districts, with DIS
trict health officers in charge OF each,
as follows:
District No. Pheasant Green, Hun
ter Brighton, North Point, Farmers,
Sugar and Mountain Dell precincts, in
charge of DR.. H. A. Anderson
District No. 2-North Jordan. Murray,
Big Cottonwood, Mill Creek and East
Mill Creek precincts, DIR. Ferrabee or
Murray in charge.
District No. 3-West Jordan, South
Jordan, Riverton, Bluff Dale, Union,
Sandy. Crescent, Draper, Butler, Gran
lite and Little Cottonwood precincts, DIR.
Robinson of Sandy in charge.
District No. bingham and Henri
man precincts, DR.. Bracken of Bingham
in charge.
The draft of the proposed health ordi-
nance was referred to the county at
torney to pass upon its validity.
Road Matters Considered.
A resolution was adopted reciting it
is advisable that an action be brought
in the district court to test the question
on whether the road leading up Spring
Hollow canyon, in the east mountains,
has been INSTRUCTED by James Thomp-
son, said road being deemed public
highway, and directing the county at
torney, associated with the attorney of
the Washington Rock company, to
maintain such action, half the expense
thereof to be borne by the complaining
company.
The petition of S. J. Stookey and a
large number of other residents of
Sugar ward for the sprinkling of a now
dusty strip of 100 rods of road on Elev-
enth East street, from the city limits
to Twelfth South street, was referred
to the committee on roads and bridges.
Francis Sprouts complaint that every
water to flood his garden on State
street, between Tenth and Eleventh
South, was referred to the road COM |
mittee.
Hyrum Lancaster, one of the petition
ers for the opening of a road between
sections l and u, township south, |
range l west, in Sandy requested prac |
teal action on the petition, which was |
granted some time ago. 1t was also re-
ferred to the road committee.
The matter of designating for the |
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM |
pany the location of its new pole line |
on the west side of State street, south |
to Murray, was referred to the road |
committee and the county attorney, |
with power to act.
Post Mortem Fees.
The county attorneys advice that the
board had the right to fix the maxi
mum fee chargeable to the county by
doctors making post norton examina
lions ordered by the commissioners,
was considered, and Commissioner
Whitaker was directed to ascertain
what such maximum fee should be.
Superintendent Whipple reported the
of ten patients to the county
infirmary in May, making ninety-eight
in all, but with nineteen discharged and
four who died, the number of inmates
on May 81 was seventy-five.
Several other unimportant matters
pertaining to care of paupers were con-
sidered, and after approving a lot of
current expense and salary claims the
board adjourned till Monday.