The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-14
COMPLAINT
 IS LODGED Offensive Smells Come from < Local Garbage Reduction
 Plant
BOARD OF HEALTH
 MAY ACT TONIGHT
A. E. Lavery, ct al., Take
 Initiative In. Strongly sa Accentuated Petition

At the meeting of the board of
 Health this evening a petition signed
 aby Albert B. Lavery. of 3s3 Mill Hill
 avenue. and other residents of that
 vicinity regarding the odors which rise
 From the local garbage reduction plant
 will be presented to the board. The
 petition will ask that the board set a
 date for a public hearing on this mat tier when the signers of the petition
 and other residents who have been }troubled by the nuisance will have a tchance to make their, complaints to
 lthe board and the Bridgeport By-Pro- tducts Go. will be given an opportunity Ito explain why the nuisance exists.
 This action has been finally decided tupon bv the petitioners and others in ltfie neighborhoodf after much delibera- lfion and delay. Other methods have ibeen suggested for bringing fhe trou- tble to stop but forGOne reason or an- Iother were finally given up. One of ithese plans was to take the matter Into the courts and make an attempt Ito get an injunction against the com lpany to prohibit them from disposing tof the city;s garbage in so offensive a
 manner.
 This move was not taken because it twas thought that such action would be tgoing over the head of the proper municipal authority in this case. the lBoard of Health. The board has taken fno action in the matter because no twritten complaint had been received sby it.. MT. Lavery said this morning [that this was understood by the mem tbers of the community about Mill Hill land their action in placing this petit ltion, was to bring the matter before tthe board so that some action might be taken.
 l MT. Lavery said that conditions had become intolerable owing to the odors . IT -I4 s,I- 1I, N3~-I,k lof offensiveness at night. In order to tsleep 1t Is necessary to shut all the windows and. doors and even then MT. lIsavary said he had sometimes been Ineutralize the smell from the crema- He also said 1t did not seem the tf3Eht4nfng to him for the arthorities- Ito allow conditions to exist which make 1t impossible for those who do want fresh air to enjoy the benefits of l 1t when the state had recently appro- priated $175,000 for the erection of three institutions for the treatment of tubercular patients the purpose of the enjoyment of good air and sun light.
 He said further. that he did not think the city should turn over its garbage money that was in it. He was in lfavtr of the city owning its own gar bagey reduction, plant. "But." he said, s1f tho oity has made a mistake. it is mot the first one it has made and if lit has made a. costly mistake it is not ] the first one either and I do not think the citizens. should be made to suffer for such mistakes.''
 In regard to getting any satisfaction by talking with those in authority at the plant MT. Lavery said that there was only onaSrnan there to talk to- foreman. and that he was spoken to, he would laugh and reply, "We don't get any of it here" He said he had been informed that one of the reasons for the smell was that the plant was
 not large enough to take care of the garbage.
 Several other matters will be brought to the attention of the board this evening. Among them will be com plaint from Miss Finnegan. nurse at thetuberculosis dispensary, in the po- lice and charities building about the condition of the back yard at police headquarters. Miss Finnegan com plains about the general untidyness and the building of bon fires in the yard where waste. bandages. etc. from the mergency hospital are burned.