The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-11
REM.f .fRRS ADDRESSED
To the Board of Hca,tE.

Dear MT Editor: Will you please Al-
 low me space in the columns of VOLT
 paper, in which I wish to ask the board
 or health question. have noticed by
 the press that typhoid has burst forth
 in full volume, and as usual the board
 or health immediately sprang on the water company and the poor milkmen | Our milk does not all come from one farm or from two farms, and it is a | hard thing in my estimation to locate the disease with the milk. Most of our
 milkmen are working hard to earn an
 honest and comfortable living, and it is not right in the board of health to
 hurt them in this way There may
 have been a time when the typhoid
 came from milk, but not always. Now
 then, l am going to ask the board of
 health, and also the doctors, if it ever
 occurred to them that most of our dis
 eases came from filth and dust? Go
 into the slums of our city and clean
 them out and compel the families to
 keep clean. Have ever been in them?
 Yes, many times. l, being a trained
 nurse, have been sent to some of the
 most terrible novels. At one place they
 washed the dishes in the wash basin
 and dried them on the face towel. That
 l saw myself after I had eaten my
 breakfast. How would you all like to
 fare that way, and this is only one
 case. I could tell you of many, only
 have no time, or perhaps not room in
 the paper to have it printed Another
 thing I wish to say is that our streets
 oro
 clothes thrown out and left to decay;
 heaps of rubbish of every description
 left in open lots right in the city; dead cats, rats, mice, yes, and even dogs, have seen when driving and riding my wheel: one instance where some poor cat had died and lay by the roadside fer weeks, yes, I will say months, for I passed it myself, and each time I would think to myself surely the board of health will have it buried soon, and so it went on until the recent rains washed 1t into the gutters and the last time I passed, it still laid there not buried. I want to ask if that improves our health. Then there is another thing which the board of health does not attend to as they ought, and it is this; Where the houses are not con nected with sewers and have vaults ought not they to be cleaned once in while? What can be worse I can tell you of one place where there was one of the worst cases of erysipelas that I ever saw; it was in the head and face and the patient was one mass of pus; the eyelids almost slcuched off, and all the refuse from the sick room was thrown in the vault. This was three years ago, and that vault has never been cleaned yet. I reported it to the i board of health several times myself, | but no attention has yet been paid to it. Ask the public if they wonder why we do not have more sickness by such ter rible neglect. We might just as well not have a beard of health and save ex- pense, for certainly they do not do their | work as it ought to be done. Yet if we have any disease break out then the poor milkman has to face it. and also the water company; and as for the ty- | phoid germs coming from Bethany [ down to New Haven I think 1t is all 8 though I am q germ believer to great extent, and I think many of . our New Haven people will say the same if they were asked. I am living near a family that throw all the refuse, no matter what it is, out of their kitch- en windows. They have h cess-pool, i and why they do not use it I do not know, but it is a filthy spot and it is tight near my back door. l reported it to the board of health as nuisance; hey promised me they would tend to it :