The Jersey City news., 1906-12-07
OFFICIAL coMIlAILU.NIcATIoNs.


From DR.. g. K. 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:-JIn pursuance of your re-
guest Of the 3fd 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 stenegrapher, and Mr.. Wei
den Griffinfas guide. In the sub Joined
report we endea vor 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-
witt
PROPERTY OF MR.. J. II. BAR
Ton, Morris street. top of Dover Hill
In this house it was reported there
was a oolyalescent 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
stptic treatment. This priyy is about
thirty feet back of the house or a sope.
80 ~ SO tAI utJStLJbliS OI ltftE ItGOnle
Ii is an ordinary excavation, non-cement-
ed. full Of solid excrenent, fluid additions
over-fiowing: pool formed from same
about FIVE feet distant One thousand
feet from the priyy is brook, five feet
vide six inches deep, running rapidly.
The dip from the house to the brook is
about Fifty to seventy-fve feet. The dis
tance from the nearest point in the brook
to where it reaches the river is about one
mile
EUGENE CooPFR's HOUSES
six houses with one family each on First
street.
Fifty feet back of the houses are the
priFies with overfowing liquids; full of
eycTement; natural drainage toward the
b'ooklet with steady dow of water to-
va'7s Ford's Pond. Said brook is pro-
ted from sunlight by an over-hanging
TX and growth Of vegetation.
GEORGE PARKS HOUSE. Byron
and Second streets
Sta BILE and pTivy in rear Of house.
Muck in rear of stable. Privy adjoining
not ceTneDted Natural drainage TO-
wards Ford's Pond. Urinine solution nut
in sink in house appeared in drain under
nriyy. This also drains towards Ford's
Pord
LAWRENCE HOUSE. Second street.
Pfiyy in FEAR about six feet Deep on
fhe edge of the bank. eight feet high.
Nfti y anuut eIgnt feet of the brook, SIX
lnsndrFd fett from Ford's pond Ford's
Pond is bout eigh cen hundred feet from
the r Int where the connecting stream
esnpsigs into the river. and receives the
natural drainage of an ampitheatre
abent one half mile wide with numer-
olls buildings. privies and stallles,
Il. ROWE'S HOUSE, Canal street
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positive. Solution filtered through under
g5allnd n fear. running into canal ten
fert Distant and six feet below. JJrinine
t]lroTn into tsa sink IN the house came
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