The Jersey City news., 1906-12-10
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS

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From DR.. G. x. Dickinson, chairman.
ct al, submitting report of result of in
vestigation of the watershed.
November 10, 1906.
To the Honorable, the Members of the
Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners, Jersey City. New Jersey
Gentlemen:-In pursuance of your re-
quest of the Bird inst, the undersigned
have investigated the source from which
the city is now receiving its water We
were accompanied by Mr.. John J. Egan,
of Hoboken, head of the Egan School of
Business. as stenographer, and Mr.. We'll
den Griffin as guide. In the sub-joined
report we endeavor to state conditions
seen and such observations as are self
convincing Although it was impossible
for this body to investigate every portion
of the large watershed in detail, vet we
feel convinced that the more important
nuisances received careful attention, to-
wit
PROPERTY OF MR.. J. II. BAR
TON, Morris street, top of Dover Hill
In this house it was reported there
was a conyalescent typhoid fever patient,
and the only one acknowledged to be
existing in the town. Stool discharges,
it is claimed, were put into the privy
back of the house without receiving anti
septic treatment. This priyy is about
thirty feet back of the house on a slope.
lnto it go the objections of four people
1t is an ordinary excavation. nol-cenent-
ed, full Of solid excremenf. fluid additions
over flowing: pool formed from same
about five feet distant One thousand
feet from the privy is a brook, five feet
vide six inches deep, running rapidly.
The dip from the house to the brook is
about fifty to seyenty-fye feet. The dis
tance from the nearest point in the brook
to where it reaches the river is about one
mile
EUGENE CooPER's HOUSES,
six houses with one family each on First
street,
Fifty feet back of the houses are the
privies with overfioWing liquids; full Of
excrement; natural drainage toward the
brooklef with steady How of water to-
wards Ford's Pond Said brook is pfo-
teeted from sunlight by IN over-hanging
bank and growth of vegetatson.
GEORGE PARKS HOUSE, Byron
and Second Streets
Stable and privy in rear of house.
Muck in rear of stable. Privv adioining
NOT cemented Natural drainage to-
wards Ford's Pond, Urinine solution put
IN sink in house appeared in drain under
privy. This also drains towards Ford's
Pond
La WRENCE HOUSE. Second street.
Pfivy in rear about six feet deep on
the edge of the bank, eight feet high,
within about eight feet of the brook. six
hundred feet from Ford's pond. Ford S
Fond is about eighteen l1IIaIfed feet from
the point where the connecting stream
hmpties into the river. and receives the
Natural drainage of an ampitheatre
about one half mile wide with numer-
BUS buildings, priyjes and stables
MR.. ROWE'S HOUSE. Canal street
(Wharton) - sa rs sf
Privy on bank of cafa1 TJrfnine test
positive. Solution filtered through under
ground in rear. running into canal ten
feet distant and six feet below. UriniIe
thrown into tbe sink IN the house came
put Immediately into the canal -Four
houses with four families here all drain
RICHARDSON, BOYNToN &
COMPANY'S s WORKS Dover
Employs six hundred men. Toilets
pan Accommodate a dozen men at a time.
Excrement drops into cart running
hinder same and left there until it be-
comes full, or, In spite Of chloride of lime,
too od0rous. Cart stands in ground
water several inches deep. Distance to
river is six hundred feet The proprie-
lor ef he Richardon. Boynton and Conn
pan Woks contracts for the removal
exerement and does not know
Whece it IS taken. In the area around