Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
STIRS COUNCIL TO ACTION
ON GARBAGE NUISANCE
Acting Mayor LuSk Says Loading
Stations Cause Sickness

A severe reprimand is contained in
a message to the council, which Judge
Lusk sent to that body today. This is
| Judge Lusk's first message since he has
been acting mayor, but he hopes that
it will stir the council to action on
the garbage loading station. The coun-
| Gil has considered the matter several
months without acting.
He made a personal investigation
of this loading station at the behest
of number of property owners who
are affected by the nauseating odors
from the place and declares 1t is as
bad as 1t has been painted and pos
sibly a little bit worse. He says, in
part:
GAS most of the members of the coun-
Gil know, I think, the loading and un-
loading station is located in the CEN
ter of a pretty thickly settled por-
tion of the city. 1t is true, it is not
an aristocratic, wealthy portion. If
it were, it would not be tolerated by
the people of the vicinity for "a hours.
They would institute legal proceedings
at once to abate the nuisance, If they
could not otherwise have 1T removed.
1.-THE fact that most of the people
living in the immediate vicinity of
this loading station are poor and
humble should not cause us to be less
mindful of their interests, and I am
sure it will not. Nearly all, if not
quite all, of the people living in the
community affected by said offensive
odors purchased and paid for their
homes long before the loading station
was located in their midst.
Il hope your honorable body will
pardon what may appear to be undue
solicitude on my part for the welfare
of the people in that vicinity. They
appealed to me to make personal in
Vestigation, report the result thereof
to the council and to ask the council
if [ felt justified in so doing, to cause
the nuisance to be removed or abated
made a personal investigation and
will now briefly state some of the Facts
l have found to exist:
1.-TWO cars are usually loaded during
the day, beginning about 10 o'clock a.
m. and finishing sometime in the at-
ternoon. These cars usually stand on
the side track until about o'clock at
night, when they are taken away Dur
ing the time these cars are being load
ed from the garbage wagons, the
noxious odors arising from sour, fer
menting, decaying garbage so fill and
impregnate the air as to make 1t al
most unbearable to those living in the
immediate vicinity, and otttlmeS TO
those living several blocks away.
"The noxious odOrs have cause and
are causing sickness IN tnat Vlclnlty
the Spanish Mission school having had
to close and suspend operations on
that account.
'I am aware of the gravity and the
importance of the question of disposlng
of the garbage of the city. Thinking
that possibly the present loading sta
ton might be made sanitary, request
ed DR.. Powers, our health officer, TO
examine the premises and report
whether or not the station could be
made sanitary by erecting building
in which to do the loading and unload.
ing. After a careful examination OF
the nremises DR.. Powers reported that
the erection of a building there would
not make the premises sanitary and
that, in his judgment, they could not
be made sanitary while being used for
that purpose. .,.x,oo,o
"As a solution of the troublesome
question I recommend that the city
purchase or lease few acres of land
in or near the city limits, now unim-
proved and unoccupied, to be used as
garbage loading station until such time
as the city may install city lnclnera-
tor or other means OF dlsposlng OF lts
garbage. or until such time as each
householder may be required to install
his own incinerator and dispose OF ms
own garbage, as is done in many cities
in England"