The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-04-22
State Board Of Health Meets in
Franklin.

Kelley, secretary; DR.. T. T. Tarle.
ton, Dr.. Herman Eoescher, DR.. P
T. Talbot, register of vital statis-
tics; DR.. T. w. Gaines, Mr.. Geoge
B. Taylor, state analyst, MIR.
Benjamin T. Waldo, attorney.
Besides the meeting of the Board,
the final meeting of the committee
for the investigation of Bayou
Teche was held, and also a meet
ing of the Sanitary Code Com
mission of the Board.
The meeting of the Board was
one of the most important ever
held, and great volume of busi-
ness was transacted. That of
special interest to the citizens of
this section of the State was the
meeting of the committee for the
investigation of Bayou Teche,
which was composed Of: Dr..
Beverly w. Smith, chairman;
Colonel Lansing H. Beach, United
States engineer; Major Frank M.
Kerr, state engineer; G. Del KEN
per, representing Jules Godchaux |;
DR.. j. w. Sanders, DR.. T. T..
Tarleton and George B. Taylor,
state analyst. At the meeting of
this committee, which was
lengthy one, there were present
the members of the State Board
of Health and many persons in
terested from the surrounding
country. A detailed report was
made on the work that had been
done by the subcommittee for
the year 1910, which included
three trips during March, Septem-
Der and December, there being
made many chemical analyses,
both in the laboratory and field
of this inspection. The causes
of the pollution of Bayou Teche
and r"l eLies thereof, were
given in a lengthy report by
Mr.. George B. Taylor, state
analyst, and after the matter was
fully and carefully discussed by
the committee, a subcommittee
consisting of DR.. Beverly w.
Smith, Major Kerr, DR.. J. w.
G. Del Kemper and Geo.
B. Taylor was appointed to draft
final recommendations Of the
to the Louisiana State
Board of Health, which are as
follows:
To the President and Members of the |
Louisiana State Board of Health, |
Franklin, La.
Teche investigation, after careful re-
view of the several reports on the ex-
animation and investigation of the
polluted condition of Bayou Teche,
beg to submit the following as being,
q our opinion, the causes of the said
to-wit: The banks are
hickly settled and contain\ many
owns, sugar factories and saw.mills.
Very little care is taken of waste
vater, and the sewerage from towns
uns directly into the stream. The
tream is small and sluggish and
Without volume sufficient to dispose
# the waste matter put into it. The
,ollution caused by these conditions
s increased in the sugar season by
he fact that most of the sugar fac
cries run their sweet water into the !
tream and by the fact that the sea-
ona] low stage of the stream assists !.
q aggravating these conditions. Ash.
} embodied and detailed in the re-
ort of DR.. Hamilton p. Jones and {
Ir. George B. Taylor, state analyst,
ttached hereunto and made a part
+ this report and recommendation.
In view of these findings. we beg
ave to submit the following recon-
s
First-That the Louisiana State t
oard of Health exhaust every en-. i
savor in its official and personal ca 3
acity to relieve said condition of +
ollutiOn by requesting the state en- :
neers to formulate plans and recon. :,
endatiOns for the introduction of q
esh water, from such sources as in b
cir opinion will best contribute to Il
9 volume and flow of the Teche, II
Second We further recommend q,
at that body, the Louisiana State a,
bard of Health, adopt such especial =,
,thods as to materially reduce the V.
Hutton of the Teche by exercising IL
prerogative towards the estoppei
using it as q common sewer for
man, animal and vegetab bic matter. an
also recommend that it, LA
Louisiana State Board of Health, tai
opt q law, with all equity to those Sc
providing means and me- L.
DIS of Kidding the Teche of the
properties of the millions stt