The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-05
BOARD OF WORKS
HAS ISSUED ORDERS
The City 10 be Cleaned up With.
out Regard to Expense.
Crude Petroleum to BE Poured On
All Ponds Ia XIII ON the
Mosquitoes.
COOPERATION Is TO BE ASKED

Secretary S. A. Fowler, of the
board of public works, today by au-
ehoriiy issued instructions to the
street department to clean up the city
regardless of cost. Mr.. Fowler is o.
the opinion that the citizens can help
materially by li,tle work and more
attention to practical hygiene ard
sanitation.
Last night Mr. Fowler rode horse
back through a number of alleys of
Paducah to make a personal inspec
ton of conditions. He found them
very bad. he says. Reeking outhous-
es were discovered i'm the heart Of
business districts where all buildings
should be connected with the sewer
age and the worst part of II was that
many of the outhouses were in a con
dition that would be disgrace to
the most squalid districts in a slum
settlement
81 also found. said Secretary Fow-
Ter, that the cooks are allowed in
many places to daily take buckets
and pans of slop and discarded food
and dump them into the alleys. There
it remains and rots, attracts flies.
end communicates the neighborhood.
The board of health will be asked
TO have all the sanitary ordinances
enforced. A number of times the
board OF public works has made an
effort to have these ordinances en-.
forced, but to no purpose. II IL
thought that now, however, with sew
eral weeks more hot weather in pros
poet, and with the yellow fever stu
alton in the south beyond control OF
the state authorities, the city viii
enforce the laws of health and clean
illness.
One evil that occasions much com
plant and dissatisfaction is that If
foul garbage wagons being driven
through the streets in daytime.
Often people have to close their
doors and windows until the wagons
get out of the neighborhood. The
board OF works has called attention
to it several times, and will do so
again.
new experiment for Paducah will!
he the use of crude petroleum on all
ponds of stagnant water in the city
and nearby. to kill the mosquitoes
An order will be issued today to the
street department to put oil on every
stagnant pond or pool to be found
;1cl ,taiy Fowler says that owners
Of cows who turn them out should
rce tia they do not drink from any
- the wa,ering places where the pc
iioleum is lit. as it will make the
COWS very sick.
1t is not known how many barrels
Of oil will be required, but probabl.
not many. and petroleum is cheap.
Secretary Fowler states that many
/ -OBit 'dn up NnOll pau NOW OIL W
keeping the cutters free from water
by not allowing their faucets or hy-
drants to run any more than neces-
sary. Some people, without any ap-
parent reason, leave the water run
ming all day, and as result a con
slant stream of waste water pours liz
to the cutters. and keeps it fille@
with water that soon becomes stag
nant.
The board of works, however, has
issued orders to clean out every gut
ter and alley, and to keep the streets
as clean as possible. and to spare ne
expense in doing It.
The city authorities and health
board will be asked to cooperate.
and pay particular attention to the
enforcement of ordinances against
nusances, and against all practices
regarded as unhealthful.