The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-03
MUST CLEAN UP.
Dead Bodies of Animals to Be
Buried.
Emergency Board of Health
Acts Promptly.
TOUR is MADE TODAY.
Formal Report on Sanitary Sit
nation to Be Made.
Tent City May Be Established
Next Week.

The removal of the bodies of the hum
dreds of dead animals that are lying in
the mud in North Topeka is another of
the many serious propositions that con-
front the emergency board of health.
Another meeting of the board was held
last night and the doctors thoroughly
discussed this part of the work that
will have to be done 1t was finally
decided to send committee appointed
by the president Dr. L. Y Grubb. over
to North Topeka to investigate the ex-
listing conditions and report to the board
at a meeting that organization will hold
this evening in the city physicians Of
fee It will then be decided What IS
best to be done.
The committee, which is composed Of
Doctors Powell. Menninger and Mcclure
left for North Topeka at Z o'clock this
morning They are to tour the flooded
district in boats, making a thorough in
vestigation of the sanitary condition of
that part of the city. and Will return to
this side Of the river sometime this af-
ternoon.
Many of the people coming from
North Topeka report hundreds r dead
animals lying about the streets. and
unless they are moved Immediately the
stencil will seriously AFFECT the health
of the people who are still on the North
side of the river. The plan of the doc
tors is to get wagons from the city and
with the aid of those refugees who are
willing TO help with the work. ga snes
up all bodies of dead animals and
transport them to some selected place,
where a trench will be dug and they
win be buried. This will be done just
as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made.
1t is stated that many of the bodies
of dead horses and COWS would have
foated away and the work of moving
them would not be necessary if the reo~
pie had not tied them This was done
in many cases where the people did not
think that the water would rise aboNe
the heads of the animals, and the result
was that hundreds of them We're
drowned and the stencil from their
bodies is already the source Of sons
sickness As soon as the Wa'er ms
fallen sufficiently a force of men Will
be nut to work shoveling the mud ont
of the streets, but t IS thought that TINS
work viii not begin for week vet
All the other work that the emery
ency board has underta ken is reported
to be going on smoothly. All doctors
report the sanitary condition in the dis
tricts under their supervision to be III
good shape NOT mucn sickness mas ue>
veIoped. and those cases that have been
reported are being we'll taken care o.
The rules that have been laid down By
the board are being obe--ed, and the
people seem to be cooperating with ths
doctors n keening the sanitary condi-
tioa Of the city in the best shane pos.
sible. Not many contagious diseases
have been discovered. A few have beef
reported. but these have been isolated
and have been given no chance tt
spread.
DR.. Grubbs' plan of establishing q
tent city at the Keith tract has not beer
forgotten. and it is thought that it vii
be carried out. DR.. Grubbs said yes
terday that work on the tent city could
not be commenced for a week or 50
1T would be lust as good a plan" lls
said. ito let the people go back to livf
across the river as to quarter them II
tents erected over wet and muddy
ground such as that is out there at ths
present time. But as soon as the sue
comes out and dries thin-s I'D I thini
that the erection of tent city on the
Keith tract or some other high place
will be about the best thing that car
be done"