The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-22
State Board Of Health Calls
Attention to a Barre Need
ATTENTION is DEMANDED
Also States That All the School Houses
Of the City Should be Provided
With Fire Escapes at Once.
Further Recommendations

The State Board Of Haealth, writing
TO City Health Officer Joe w. jackson,
makes some pertinent recommendation
concerning the city of Barre, touching
upon sanitary conditions. His letter is
as follows:
Joseph w. Jackson, Md, Health Officer
Barre, VT;
Dear Sir: Having made a sanitary in
spection of your city, we commend the
general hygenic conditions which ap-
parently prevail. There are a few poins
which imperatively demand attention
and immediate action. III there is not
city ordinance forbidding the keeping
Of swine in the city limits, sou should
eall the attention of the city govern
ment 70 the necessity of such prohibi-
tion.
Your fine new school building i a.
ornament and credit to your cilv. The
placing Of furnaces. which are the only
source from which the building might.
take ire, directly under the halls where
the stars are, demands efficient proyis-
ION Tor hurried exit in case such dis
aster should occur. A fire escape has
been placed upon one end Of the build
ing, as at present arranged the pupils,
II order to make use OF this, can only
reach the upper landing BY passing
through a window so high that each one
would require assistance to do SO; hence
the window should be cut down and
made into q door swinging out. which
would allow of easy egress. Theother
end of the building should be provided
with g like means of escape. TIE huild-
ing should not be used until these re-
quirements are fulfilled, and the plumb-
ing has ben thoroughly tested. Yonr
-FOUR room school buildings have narrosv
stairwaYs and only one exit. These
should be provided with iire escapes.
Your attention il called to NO. 113.
Laws Of 1902, as amended ii 1904 the
last part Of section 4, 5 and 6. IN az
eordanee with these sections Won win
see that aall public buildings are pro-
yided with Sire escapes. we wauld
further call your attention TO sub-see-
tion OF section Is of the same act. as
% your obligations in all matters ner-
tanning to the duties Of your Office.
Ihe throwing of refuse Of any kind
INTO the river as it passes through vour
city should be prohibited, as well as the
use Of the ''privies" near the Stone
shops, which are so placed that thew dis
cnarge, directly into the water or upon
the edge Of it. They should be re-
placed with regular water closets con
nected with the sewer, or If this Il inn
practible, with dry dirt closets which
should be carefully cared for and
cleaned at least once d month
II we are correctly informed that
portion Of the city west Of the river II
not supplied with sewers. A system 81
sewers for this portion Of the citv
should be provided at an early dav. Par
mission is hereby granted % DISCHARGE
snen sewage into the Winoosh river
until BY legislation or otherwise. said
river IS ordered to be cleansed Of an
sewage Hence in laying out such
system Of sewers they should be ar
ranged 50 that when prohibited from
aischaigng into the river, that their con.
tents could be readily disposed 81 IL fl-
tratlon. You viii observe that snh-
section Of No 113 Of acts of 1909 are.
lures that every person owning j dwell
ing house or other building abutting an
lhe public street in which there Is 4 n,4h.
nc sewer, shall be connected Herewith J,
With the opening Of the spring yon win
complied with s
in behalf Of the state board Of health
hhNkh Y. HOLTON, Secretary.