The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-05-13
|arrgysIvE AND
|.ryACE TO HEALTH
]. fUm southern Part Of
rsrn not Cared For.
!, ar HEALTH WILL ACT
|. Pin u Allowing II TO Ae'
r., a. Fla, East Of Railroad
- LIKELY to Cause Disease
=, IA warm Weather.

.s,F ssg u the tracks
~, Vermont railroad near
~, CANNING company plant
- 10 ilF puhiie hralth
joalNti Health Officer
- n. a,k,,l the board OF
80 ,.t. mfauuf, 10 rrmeiy the
m. saasc nom Pine street
- he Mnrnlng.ide section
49, plr a short distance
M Bnuleloio Cabinet com
- 5ni !. carried beneath the
IA r,llnii across 20 the banks
e-ssfi,ut nNrr. Originally the
- 5oen stream hut after the
~ r1a.el Is the building OF the
T,,.,B the sewage failed 10 dis
~ M Connecticut River Power
y, ~.nel the pipe about 10 or 100
4 me nilroal track and about
!, b5rh 81 the canning factory. a
...,o5 VA, constructed to take
~ swa.f but the location OF this
| an % near the canning factory,
{s,rLlaro Cabinet company and the
H, sc,,rlin, to the belief OF the
4. .s,f /, dlngerpu, TO the health
4. community. Il i from such
y ilat typhoid germs come and
| 4, lppniah ot the summer season
4 I. H.. resident. OF the southern
n, q ih. village may well complain
+ Mltians
n. he opening OF the sewer was
~ 10 allow the contents To he
~ BIZ the water that settled back
4 a. rrer The result has hardly been
\ u expeeiel Even though the
VI ara amount, 10 several acres
4 , no current, and DR.. Tucker
IA OF, Tuesday that the sewage must
~snr remain IN the immediate
n q The opening made in the pipe.
n to the pot would convince any
l.iat within month or six weeks
Inn, must naturally become much
\ la.t what the Connecticut River
N company can do in the matter DIR.
is va. unable to suggest. He &C.
rslsed that il was somewhat of a
I'm
! sewage from the Brattleboro Cabi-
on,any /, not satisfactorily cared
|, the mind OF the health officer as it
sgtd to flow over a considerable ter.
2 near the highway 1t passes out
ai an open ditch into a large cess
Tthin a very lew feet of the high
When sufficient amount of sew
Nlect, in thi, cesspool a pump is
70 force il through a pipe into the
made by the railroad fill on the east
tie new road to the west. While
ia Of this body Of water amounts to
acres there i not sufficient cur
except in early spring, to carry the
iron this sewer out through a cul-
under the railroad track into the
sticut river Thus it is pointed out
i would not be feasible to change
irectlOn Of the sewer coming down
The hillside from Pine street and
;tCtlon and have it empty into the
81 used by the Brattleboro Cabinet
my.
view Of the probability that other J
q sewer, will eventually be laid |
the Oak Grove and Morningside |
b down over the hill to some |
on the Connecticut river it is going |
somewhat OF an engineering prob. |
construct them in a way that will
danger the health Of the residents
section Of Brattleboro. The low
Q the south OF the Brattleboro Cabi-
npany and TO the north of the high
It below the factory is at present
Y submerged by a large body Of
water With the water on the
slde OF the road remaining at about
tsent height during the summer
!, little reason to believe that the
water on the lowland to the
can ind any way of escape except
poratlon.