The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-15
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vention.
Human waste products and filth are tn,
most prolific sources OF disease breeding
| bacteria, and to insure health they mus
| be safely and quickly removed and that !,
the work OF sanitary plumbing, to protec,
the health OF the home.
| In this connection the speaker strongly
recommended the appointment OF a boart
of plumbing engineers, created by the laws
of the State and kept out OF local politics
| and complimented Texas as being the only
State in the Union to have adopted such
law, which was done by the Twenty.
| fifth legislature.
In conclusion he referred to National
quarantine as being means OF affordins
the people of the South a sense of securi-
ty, the best prevention of this or any
other given disease would be to keep the
communities in such a healthfu condi-
slon that the germ could not live there.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hyde said:
II believe there is nothing that will ad-
vertise the city and State as much as to
pay attention to these matters. In tray-
cling through the East and Nsrth | find
many desirable citizens desire to come to
Texas, but hesitate on account of the ex-
listing sanitary conditions in the cities.
They do not wish to bring their families
into city that uses the primitive mode of
sanitation They know the value OF good
sanitation. We pay no attention whatever
to public sanitation. | am of the new pro-
grossive South, | believe that lack OF
sanitation hurts us worse than bad legls-
laton.
81 have what call model city. which,
II practiced in a city, VIII make life worth
living. The rules are as follows
To reduce the death rate and the ex-
penses OF sickness the sanitary system of
all cities should operate under a State law
nj nil nv ,ir. re
not appointed by the mayor and board of
aldermen.
The duty of this board of plumbing ex-
amlners is to pass upon the competency OF
those who apply for a license to do plumb
ing and house drainage. To examine APP
plicants for the office of chief inspector of
plumbing and assistant inspectors
"A city should be provided as follows:
Il. system of sewers Separate sew
ers
"2. water supply not contaminated by
the sewage of any city.
g. Sewage should be destroyed by
either crematory process or used, after
chemical or bacterial changes, for farm
fertilizer.
a. A plumbing ordinance regulating
plumbing and house drainage aul house
water supply.
3. a chief inspector of plumbing
&c. An ordinance requiring every touse
owner to connect every house and hcvel
within the city limits to the sewer sys-
TEN.
-. An ordinance regulating filth and
garbage disposal and the periodical clean
ing and dsinfection of back premises and
alleys.
IS. a sprinkling ordinance. No dust 10
be allowed in model city. Dust carries
the germ of consumption. Street cleaning
ordinance. The business streets should be
rf,,ls1 al.
night. Residence streets Sprinkled and
kept clean all the time.
10, department of public health and
hygiene, having plumbing. drainage. city
cleaning, disinfection. etc, under its
supervision. Such department should be
equipped with every modern sanitary
plumbing testing device and also the best
apparatus for formaldehyde gas disinfec-
tlon. plumbing workroom where apph-
cants for plumbers license and Inspector
ship could be- practically as well as the
oretically examined This department
should have the power TO order house-to-
house inspection There should be APP
planes for asccrtaining the quality of
air in houses. Wher unoccupied houses
are found to be in dangerous condition
they should he promptly condemned and
owners notified to thoroughly repair the
plumbing and drainage system and thor
orghly disinfect premises before property
could be advertised for rent. This would
keep families renting homes out of death
traps. School houses should have ianitor
service during vacation water being turn
ed on at stated intervals to avoid the dan
ger of trap evaporation or the foulng Of
water in them. Before the opening of
school the building should be thoroughly
disinfectod. In such a city the poor who
rent would have clearly, healthful homes,
properly connected to the public sewers
and supplied with cheap, but safe, plumb
ing fixtures.
The department OF health would fur
nish rules and regulations for the proper
care and attention of such fixtures and
drainage systems to save repairs and pre-
vent dangerous conditions OF Nth. Such
rules, subject to regular inspection by the
chief inspector or his assistants.
"A city so provided and cared t0r could
not propagate acute infectious and con-
tagIous disease. When dangerous condi-
lions. the result of prior ignorance and
neglect, were removed by house-to- house
inspection this city would be proof against
the epdemics. From the very beginning
of such reform. however, death rates and
sickness would diminish rapidly"
Mr.. Hyd9 viii remain in the city today
and leave tomorrow for Galveston, where
he speaks tomorrow night.
~
At 2:30 O'Clock yesterday afternoon Mr..
Hyde entertained quite a number OF citi-
2ens, among whom We're members of the
sanitary committee, city officials. ply
scians, etc, at the parlors of the Capitol
hotel, whore he answered numbe. If
questions and gave some valuable infor-
nation upon the subject of practical sani-
tation.