New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-07-22
MUDDY STREETS AND
SEWERAGE.

The daily rains for the past III
teen or more days within the Cor
porate limits, flooding our prime
ipal thoroughfares to such an eX-
tent that the water would remain
for several hours thereafter IN al
most one solid sheet over one 8
premises show the necessity for
a good sewerage system, calculat-
ed to drain not only the Streets,
but the yards all over the City
within a reasonable time. Main
street, particularly the lower sec
ton is in such condition at this
writing that the ordinary pony
attached to a milk wagon or bread
cart can hardly draw itself
through the mud. Sewerage and
paving, the two most essential I'M
provements the town is in need OF
seems to be in New iberia, a thing
that is not only treated as Sec
ondary, but given absolutely no
attention whatever by the tax
PAYERS. Just to think how much
better and healthier the commun-
ity would be with a flrstclass
modern sewerage system from
corporate limit to corporate limit.
giving everybody the same advant
age to drain their premises. AS
conditions are at present it is a
physical impossibility for hum
dheds to drain their property, the
streets in many instances being
several inches above the lay Of the
land in the yards. drain to the
shallow gutter throwing the wat
ers on the property holders, i'll
stead Of giving them relief. This
stagnant water must get rid OF it.
self through the ABSORPTION pro-
cess, causing Typhoid fever in
some instances to many Of our
people each year and still no eff
fort is made to secure a sewerage
tax. Good sewerage means the
abolishing Of surface closets, that
in times Of heavy flood rains can
not but dump itself all over ones
premises, in some instances caus-
ing the death of a member of one s
family and in hundreds Of instan-
ces causing much sickness and
large doctor bills. Which is the
cheapest small tax for good
health and clean yards or drug
and physicians bills, sometimes in
the hundreds. with a great risk
of calling in the undertaken? Is
it not time that something be
done to place New Iberia on II
par with other more enlightened
communities. Sewerage in New
Iberia would not only be great
Improvement along sanitary lines,
but would be a public convenience
and q money saving scheme for
the City were the surface closets
condemned. The revenue from
the water service would put the
Plant on a paying basis, as it is
today it is a losing proposition
and of little benefit other than to.
check fires. 1t would do away
with the purified slop, without
the expense Of garbage wagon
so essential, but not in use at the
present time. To-day all refuse
has to be buried to keep the prem
Uses clean at much trouble to the
house-keeper, in fact you cannot
eat a water melon unless after the
feast. member of the family
hunts up a spade and digs hole
in the ground to get rid Of the
nuisance. The health of this COM
munity is worth far too much to
allow such conditions, with 4
spasmodic' attempt once in six
months to clean the same when it
becomes annoying to ones neigh
bors and who, contrary to his
wishes are compelled to report
it to the officers. We have
again and again touched upon
this subject without much ado
from those that should Interest,"
in this very necessary
civic improvement, but hope ere
long that something tangible will
be devised by which New Iberia
will gain sewerage. having and