The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-12
BOARD OF HEALTH
The Milk and the Water Supply Dis
cussed-Reso1utions Offered by DR.. J.
F.. O'Leary Adopted.

IA special meeting yesterday afternoon in
the auditorium of the city hall, with Dr.
A. S. Reisor, president, presiding.
This meeting was held at the request
.of Mayor Eastman, to consider health
matters and the bonding of officials of
the board.
After a lively discussion the resolu-
tions of DR.. J. F. O'Leary were adopted
as follows:
'Resolved, That we, the City Board of
Health, in called meeting convened, do
condemn the present source of the city S
water supply as being dangerous to the
health and comfort of the people,
"Resolved That this board considers
that any part of Cross bayou is polluted
and unfit to be used as a basin and that
the citys water should not be allowed to
flow into it from any source.
"Resolved, That this board serve no
tice on the Mayor and City Council to
make some effort to protect our citizens
within thirty days.
"Resolved, That if this notice is not
complied with, then this board will ad-
wise the citizens to take the matter up
and deal with it as seems best to them. "
In the course of the discussion Dr. A.
S. Reisor reviewed the work of the
board and what had been accomplished,
through its own resources. Reverting to
the issue of pure milk, he stated that the
beard had done all it could and was do
ing its best to insure a supply Of good
milk and had established a thorough
system of inspection from which no dai-
ryman could evade responsibility. He
stated that while DR.. Downing had criti-
cised this board and had laid stress on
a dairyman having set of harness
hanging about somewhere, he had over
looked the refuse from the dairy being
drained into the cityS source of the wa
ter supply The Board of Health was
criticised in the spring and summer over
the water supply and in the winter it
was about milk He declared that the
criticism of the board was unfair and
unjust The boards powers are limited
to the corporate limits of the city. Until
recently it was almost impossible tC
prosecute and convict any dairyman for
the violation of law. He had searched
in vain for dates showing that DIR
Dowling had prosecuted any one of the
dairymen whom he had charged were
deficient in the observance of the law
He condemned the water supply. 1t was
fit only for sanitary purposes. He never
drank it nor used it for cooking pur-
poses at his home. He believed that the
water supply should be taken from Rec
river. He had no death to report from
the water supply, which newspaper:
have condemned as being a cesspool
The water was filtered but if the fltra
ton plant should get out of order there
may be developed an epidemic of typhoic
fever or dysentery.
DIR. OP1EARH TALKS.
1t is only on rare occasions that Dr.
J. F. O'Leary INDUCES in public demon
stration. He is rather modest and dis
inclined to assert himself, but at tho
meeting yesterday he was free and TIN
reserved in his remarks. He reviewed
carefully the criticism of the board
which he considers to have been unJus
and unfair. There was no citizen o
shreveport who had a greater interes
in the health situation and he would no
shirk responsibility. The reports dis
crediting the Board of Health had beel
/ greatly exaggerated He declared tina
while the water supply was not as
should be, that no death could be as
Icribed to its use, and the same aflrma
ton would apply to the use of mill
which had been subjected to the test o
the Shreveport Board of Health. H
had noted the faring headlines in tn
afternoon paper proc1aiming the gres
IT6SOuTCGS dld ddNdllLdS\o VI OLiiNNN
lport and its invitation to investors,
1.-THE inexhaustible supply of gas IN tn
lgas fields, and in another part of tn
same paper there was statement fro1
: the manager of the Gas Company in e2
PLANTATION of the recent bursting a gs
main and in which he said that the SUI
: ply of gas in the fields was diminishln
He contended that if these statemen
of the Gas Company were true that Il
paper publishing such reports shou
cease inviting people to come and Il
,lvest here. A capitalist, induced to som
would not be attracted to invest and
would keep away
It may be said that DR.. OIeary
: view of the water supply is emphasize
III. the resolution submitted by him al
adopted by the board
DR.. GRAIN TALKS.
i The chemist of the Board of Healt
a lDr. Grain, said that he had found mi
s adu1terated with water, but the milk
s had inspected was free from chemics
9 Ito preserve it.
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