The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-14
SEWERS MUST BE BUILT TO RELIEVE
 BERKSHIRE POND Board of Health POwerless to Make Sec. fion Sanitary Until Trunk Sewers
 Are Provided.
Chickens May Now be Remov. ed by Simple Complaint to Board d- Petition Against Cutlery Shop.

Health Commissioner George Kelly last night said that the city would soon have to build a trunk sewer to remove unsanitary conditions in the Berkshire Mill pond caused by the dumping of sewage into the pond from the district lying to the north of it. The matter came up when a petition from O. H. Peck and a number of oth- CT residents of the district petitioned for the abatement of the nuisance caused by the burning of the oily re- fuse from the Atlas Shear works on Island Brook Avenue and also the emp tying of sewage into the pong. Ex- Alderman F. J. Kelly, a resident of the street, expressed his indignation in no uncertain terms. The clerk was in- structed to stop the practice of burn ing the refuse lint from the shear works. The matter of the sewers will not come under the Jurisdiction of the board of health until the city provides trunks with which the local sewers can be connected.
 The clerk had a batch of chicken complaints for the board to act upon. That active and diligent promoter of neighborhood discords, the domestic portion of the evening. The board is on record as refusing to grant any further permits for the keeping of fowls in the second district. As the
 
 mits, all that is necessary to dispose of a neighbours fowls is to make com plaint to the board and prove that they are nuisance and they will be con- signed to the pot.
 Last Fall, Mrs. M. J. Casey, 576. Grand street, had a three pet fowls.
 She had previously complained that a neighbours fowls were a nuisance neighbor retaliated by complaining of Mrs. Casey's three dominicks. tNow Mrs. Casey was very much attached to these fowls and asked the board for a little time to get rid of them They are family pets and could do many funny stunts such as slack wire walk ing, jumping the rope and smoking ci- garettes. The board allowed time enough so that she could have one of the fowls for Thanksgiving dinner and the others for Christmas and New Years. This spring Mrs Casey quit claimed the fowls to her son and an- other process of notification was gone through. The board ordered the Ca- sey fowls to the block.
 The Isolation hospital cost the board of health $123 last month and as the appropriation for. the whole year is only S40O the commissioners looked up when the bills were read. The ex- pense was larger than in any previous month since the hospital was estab- ushed.
 The clerk will notify w. M. Redfeld agent for the 12 family block on Hol- ly street to provide garbage and ash and also clean up the prem iSes.
 Cutlery shops had their bumps at the for petition from M. F. Buckley and 42 others, to stop the vii bration caused by the machinery Of the Challenge Cutlery company at Kossuth and Seymour streets, was re- ceived. The residents of the neigh borhood complain that their ceilings are jared down and pots and kettles are vibrated off the stoves in the neigh boring kitchens. The matter was re- ferred to the president.
 The dead horse question came up ana 1t was decided after an examination Of i the contract with the garbage collec- tor that no one has the right to re- move dead animals and cart them through the city, excepting the con tractor. swslH
 The complaint of the By-products company that clam shells and other non-reduceable matter was delivered in the garbage was referred to the committee on garbage.
 The meat and milk inspector con- demned 1,250 pounds of meat during the month.
 The sanitary inspector was instruct | ed to see that several unSanitary mar kets were put in shape in 30 days.
 The garbage collected for the month | amounted to 1,404, ,210 lbs. as against | l. 392 5SO for the same period last year.