The San Francisco call., 1906-08-03
BOARD Of HEALTH
CLOSES THREE.

The Board Of Health adopted reso-
lutions yesterday declaring three OF
the soup kitchens unsanitary and a
menace to public health and ordered
kitchens one is at Harbor View, one at
the corner Of Nineteenth and Dolores
streets and one on Carolina street, be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth,
known as the Nieto kitchen.
o.. The closing OF the kitchens" said
DR.. Ward, was intended as a distinct
warning to the relief corporation that
the rules Of sanitation must be COM
piled with We want to advance the
interests OF the camps, but we must
stand between the public and exposure
10 disease. If these kitchens are not
put into sanitary condition they must
be closed. We are threatened with a
fly epidemic of typhoid. The water has
been analyzed and found pure. 1t is
not a water epidemic, but has come in
the wake of the establishing of the
kitchens. There the flies come in con-
tact with the food and the disease is
IN this way carried. So far as the
Board of Health has power they are
closed. Those who maintain them, il
they be kept open, must answer for the
results. The typhoid cases that have
developed are centered in the neigh
berhoods of these kitchens"
DR.. Ward backs his contentious that
the kitchens are unsanttary with pho
tcgraphs showing the filthy conditions
existing at them One picture shows a
milk can and a garbage can on the
same bench; another shows slop buck
cts al the entrance of a kitchen; an
other is Of a screened kitchen with
its door wide open, admitting swarms
o. flies.
The condition is not serious merely
because there are few cases of ty-
Phoid in the city" went on DR.. Ward.
80 he conditions can be met if we have
the means TO meet them. But at present
VIC have not the means; we have only
six inspectors, for example, to cover
the whole city. The board has made
application for twenty-siX more. We
are without labora tories and without
the men or the funds with which to
meet conditions. That is what makes
the situation serious.
-'eThe board, in considering the situa-
tion, has called into counsel the best
ability in the city. on Tuesday night
Dr. Alonzo Taylor. DR.. Terry. DR.. Lang
ley Porter, DR. Gum, DR.. Frankheimer
and DR.. Gallwey met with the Health
Commissioners for the purpose of dis
cussing the conditions. It was decided
that unless proper precautionary
measures are at once taken the situa-
tion is serious. 1t was at this meeting
kitchens was decided to be necessary.
At yesterdays meeting OF the board a
resolution was adopted extending an
invitation 10 Drs. Regensburger, Terry.
Ryfkogel, MOf1tt, Taylor, Ophuls,
-Fraukheiuler and Gallwey 10 meet and
confer with the Health Commissioners
upon sanitary matters"
Rudolph Spreckels, who has charge
OF the camps, stated when informed of
the action OF the Board of Health:
III the kitchens are torn down be-
. fore something else can be substituted
the people cannot get meals. 1t is i'm
practicable TO close the kitchens at a
rlement's notice. The kitchen contrac-
tors have already been notified that they
must make their places sanitary, and
serve better food tnan they were doing
a fortnight ago. This, I am informed,
IS being done. 1 also understand that
the kitchens are not TO be closed imme-
-diately."
The Board OF Health did not stop at
soup kitchens yesterday. 1t also con-
demned. on account Of their filthy and
unsanitary condition, the following res
taurants, cafes and lunch counters and
ordered them suppressed by arrest If
necessary:
Merchants Cafe, corner Fifth and
Market streets. in tent, Fred Hicks,
proprietor; two open lunch counters in
bhdckS on Nne SCUM sue OF marker
street, near Fifth; Flag Cafe, Market
street, between Fifth and Sixth. P. w
Warren, proprietor; Cosey Cafe, south
side OF Market street. between Eighth
and Ninth; Coffey & Moffet's restaurant
Sd a tent at southeast corner of Seventh
and Market streets; TWO restaurants on
south side Of Market street, between
Eighth and Ninth: Golden & Lee. 2412
Market street; D. Charleston, 124 East
street: o. Kronvall, 12S East street; T.
Richter, Is0 East street: Carrie Hyatt
1872 East street; c. Kramer, l34 East
street: r Albrecht. 142 East street, and
r. Ebarretta, 1z6 East street.
The board adopted the budget esti-
mate for sanitation of camps, amount
ing to $50. ABB. and also the estimate OF
$4,000 for the eradication OF typhoid
lever.