The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-09
TO BE DISCIPLINED BY THE
HEALTH BOARD
Arrangement
At Westlawn Barracks is
Condemned.

make the department more munificenl
in proportions, the department of the
government will first be gone after.
AS 1t looks now General Chaffee, chief
OF the government staff, will have to
bow to the inevitable or, more proper
ly, to Col. Clark, of the CanSonian san
itary brigade.
The channel for such a coup
was opened last night at the regular
monthly meeting of the board of health
in their camp at the city hall. BY an
investigation made by the committee
on sanitary affairs during the past
month, the first one of the new board,
Zinninger and Ballard, the three pres
ent, that the sanitary policeman should
notify the commandant at the West
lawn barracks to have the pipes lead
Ing from the water closets and bath
houses at the barracks reconstructed
in such manner that the present nui-
sance which the property owners
around the barracks have been COM
planning of may be abated.
The committees investigations show
ed that the drain pipe from the water
closet and bath house system was laid,
in the first place, with decline of less
than one-tenth of an inch to the foot,
whereas the regulations require at
least one-eighth of an inch to the foot:
also that to secure this fall the pipe
enters the cess pool a foot and halt
below where it should, thus enabling
the water to back into the pipe much
sooner than if it had entered at the
proper point; also that the pipes were
laid without cement on the under side
of the pipe and they therefore are sub
stantially open joints. The pipes being
covered the water stands at least as
high as the middle of the pipe in the
ground, thus saturating the surround
ing earth with water from the cess
pools and baths.
The committee also discovered that
this system was put in without any
proper permit from the health board
and that it's construction was in vio-
lation of the sanitary rules. They found
that 40 relief could have been had
from the condition complained of by
the residents of Lawn avenue without
the removal of the pipes from that
thoroughiare and a new construction
from the bath house and cess-pools be
made in a diagonal course across the
grounds of the cemetery association,
the directors OF which have given con-
sent to SO relay the pipes.
The report was approved of by the
board and then the motion to have the
sanitary policeman act as staff adju-
tant to notify the commandant at the
barracks to proceed with the work or
else discontinue the use Of the drain
age In such place.
In his monthly report to the toard
Health Physician A. V. Smith stated
that at the present time there existed
in Canton not one case of contagious
disease, but that while the city was so
free in such a degree he complained
that its sanitary condition was not OF
he best by any means and that this
was due entirely to the inhabitants as
the right care Of garbage and such re-
fuse was not taken. He also deplorei
the fact that so little vaccination was
being done here. Continuing, he said :
"A good many people in Canton, l
have heard, would much prefer to be
caught in the grasp Of some virulent
disease rather than to be vaccinated
If this element continues to remain
firm in such belief Canton some day
will be the center of an epidemic; an 4
while this department Is maintained to
wipe out in the first instance any such
thing we feel that both it and the pub
lie at large would be far better pro-
tected from oensure and illness II more
people would take to vaccination. The
worst of it all is that there is not even
law to enforce compulsion in this.
School children are left unimmune,
and to make 1t worse when such o
thing has been broached to some of the
board of education, members on the
boards of education, members on the
Concluding, the doctor asked the board
to consider the matter more thorough
ly.
In the report which City Physician
Faulk presented to the board for Au-
gust he spoke of the fact that some in
digent patients who had come to him
for treatment and whom he later sent
to the Aultman hospital had had
trouble in gaining admittance to the
institution. DR.. Faulk wanted to know
how the city stood in the matter SO
he would know how to act in the fu,
ture. At the next meeting of the
board committee will be appointed to
confer with the medical staff at the
hospital in regard to reaching an un-
derstanding.
Two other applicants for smallpox
physician were received by the board
and placed on file to be considered
with those Of Drs. Thomas Shorb and
h, s. Foulk at the next meeting of the
board, which will take place on Thurs
7 l.