The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-02
WILL DRAIN THE PONDS
MOSQUITO BREEDING PLACES TO
 HAVE ATTENTION.
Members of the Sanitary Committee De- eide Informally on This Meas ure--WiIl Meet Again MOn-
 day A4teRnO0M.

The special Sanitation Committee will bend every one of its energies toward having the municipal government of Montgomery drain the mosquito breed ing ponds fin North Montgomery and West End. Tn this the committee will carry forward the reform which is most needed. in the opinion of the physicians of Montgomery.
 The Special Committee was called to meet yesterday at noon in the Council Chamber. but the hour was an inconve- nient one and a quorum Of the mem bers was not present. The committee is composed of three citizens from each ward, together with members of the City Council, making in all member ship of thirty-eight from the entire city. Chairman J. E. Maddox announc- ed after the informal discussion of the sanitary affairs of the city by the mem bers of the committee that a special meeting of the committee will be held Monday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Chairman Maddox also announced that J. W. Drum had been named as ward chairman of the Ward committee.
 The members of the Special Sanitary Committee who gathered informally in the Council Chamber at the noon hour discussed the way in which the com mittee could best serve the citx, in the present crisis. It was decided by those present that each one of them would familiariEe himself with the sanitary condition in his particular ward and re- port all unsanitary matters to the San itary Department.
 The ponds in West End and North Montgomery had been largely discussed at the meeting Thursday night It was known to the committee members that the physicians of Montgomery consid- cred in the present excellent condition of the city those same ponds as the things which most needed cleansing The Montgomery physicians regarded the ponds as the largest breeding places for mosquitoes in or around Montgom- cry. Their draining had been asked for, not only as a precaution against yellow fever. but as a precaution against n1aIarial fever. to which they contribute more certainly than to vel low fever.
 Tn view of this the members of the committee will urge upon the city au- thorities the necessity of draining those ponds at once. The ponds against which most complaint has been made in North Montgomery are the holes that were left when the brick yard manu- facturers moved their machinery away and which were allowed to stand and fill with water. Tn West End the larg- est body of standing water is what Is known as ChappelPs Pond In addition to this there are several other bodies of standing water in that section of the city, as a result of which there are more mosquitoes and more malaria in West End than in any other section of Montgomery.
 The Special Sanitary Committee at its meeting Monday afternoon will pre- cede by two hours the regular meeting of the City Council. At its meeting the committee will in all probability form uiate some recommendations to the Council. It is not doubted that the committee will recommend to the Coun- ell that all the ponds in the suburbs be drained.
 The question of quarantine will again come before the Council at its meet Ing Monday night, It will come thiA time in the form of a petition asking fer a city quarantine against all ln-