The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-09-14
CLEAN UP V|N|TA,
SAYS THE COUNCIL
City Council Adopted an Ordinance
Creating Department Of Health
to Have Charge of Cleaning City.

At a special meeting of the city
council held last night, an ordinance
was passed providing for the estab
lishment of department of health
and creating the Office of superintend
ent of health and Office of superin'
tendent of garbage.
This department will have complete
control of the removal of all garbage.
refuse, night soil and rubbish from
premises, alleys and streets of the
city. The superintendent of garbage
will employ a man and team to drive
over the city every morning and col
lect and remove from the rear of each
premise all refuse from restaurant,
hotel and boarding house kitchens, al
so from market houses, stores, slaugh-
ter hourses, butcher shops, factories,
offices and wholesale houses.
The owner or occupant Of every bus
mess house and residence in the city
will be required to have a garbage
can, and also a box for rubbish, plac-
ed in some convenient location in the
back of his yard, in which he or his
employees must deposit all table
scraps and refuse, and all rubbish.
Garbage and table scraps are to be
wrapped in old newspapers and plac-
ed in the cans to keep them from
soiling or otherwise tainting the can.
A metallic garbage can with a tight
cover will be required in all cases or,
as substitute for these, so lb. lard
cans with tight fitting covers may be
used.
The city department Of health will
have entire charge of the cleaning Of
all yards, premises, unsewered clos
cts, alleys and streets, and of the re-
moyal of all garbage, rubbish aad
night soil, and the owner or occupant
Of each premises will be required to
pay monthly fee of from twenty-five
cents, upwards, for the removal of all
garbage and rubbish, and an addition
al fee for the cleaning of unsewered
closets at regular and fixed times. In
all cases the fee will be about two
thirds of what it would necessarily
be if paid to private individual. By
taking over the entire business of
cleaning the city itself, and by en-
ploying the men to do this work reg
ularly, the city will be able to more
thoroughly clean the streets, alleys
and premises than could otherwise be
done, and the cost to the general pub
lie viii be much less than under the
old system of each man paying the
scavenger himself.
DR.. Neer, the present superintend-
ent Of health, is the general supevin-
tendent of the department, and will
have control over the entire work
with the mayor and chairman Of the
sanitary committee.
The revenue from the collection and
removal of garbage will be used ex-
clusively to pay the men employed in
doing the work, and the department
will be made to pay its own expenses
on the low charges made against each
premises. In the past the city has
been paying out 81 900 year for seav-
enger work and general sanitary work
with poor results, and the city at pres
ent needs cleaning very badly.
Under the new plan the entire city
will be cleaned up once day, If the
people will collect the rubbish Oh their
premises into boxes. The superintend-
ent of garbage wifi visit every home
and business house in the city and ar
range for the monthly fee to be paid
for the collection and removal of all
garbage. This fee will then be paid
to the city every month, or may be
paid in advance at tiNe time Of paying
water rents.
In order to protect the general
health of the community and to pay
for the expense Of keeping the city
clean, it is necessary that all owners
(C0ntinued on Last paKe.)