Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-02

Schoolhouses were closed and funi- gated Chickenpox, German measles and whooping cough have been quite prevalent. SchoolhOuses have all been equipped with bubble fountains and sanitary towels, and public buildings have drinking cups. The new tene- ment house law is an important act and will assist the health officer in cases where formerly he had little con- trol.
 Sewers.
 A sewer has been built in North street and on Laurel Hill dur ing the year. and the unsanitary con dltions of these places have been re- moved. Tire construction of a sea wall and filling between the wall and bank of the river at Rose place Is now underway. This filling will remove a very unsanitary condition caused by the accumulation of sewage from the Franklin street brook. and could be remedied in no other way.
 The west branch of the Yantic riY- CT above the West Side depot is near ly filled with sewage from the Loomis brook sewer. This should be cleaned before the hot weather arrives, as 1t will be very offensive during the sum- mer months.
 A sewer will be built in Little Water street to accommodate the new buildings to be erected soon. There is only an old stone drain at present, very shall low and unfit for a sewer.
 The culvert in Comstocl pond should be extended to Broad street, in order that the sewer may be com pleted and an outlet rnSdo for sewers at this end of tfre city. This section would include North Baltic street. Pratt. North, pants of Hickory street and Brook street. These parts have n sewers and considerable sewage from this section flows into Turner's rUn ! causing a very unsanitary condition. especially when the water in this pond is low, as it usually is during the su1G- rLer months. Turner's pond should be filled and a culvert built trough the pond extending to North Baltic str3 '- and these streets could then be sew cred, discharging into the ,UlrH1t, ;rtd tfe whole section improved As this is quite an expensive proje ;., l do h lt expect the city would be 1 e pasi;icn 10 make the IT. pTovement tl4s yeiE as there arc other very important im- provements which must be complete this year, but I hope by next year this improvement may be made.
 A sewer should be built in Durham street for a few hundred feet at the Thamesville end to accommodate. the houses in that section. There should be a sewer built in Smith avenue to accommodate the County home and public school building on this street as we'll as the houses. This sewer should be large, from "A to 30 inches in diameter, in order that the swamps near the schoolhOuse may be drained.
 In the Laurel Hill section of the city, just beyond the city line, we find an open brook which contains the sew age from a large part of Sunnyside This stream, with it's load of sewage flows within about 100 feet of the Laurel Hill schoolhouse on its way tc the river. While this school building is just over the city line, a majority of the pupils attending the same live within the city limits. The locating of the Thermos bottle factory in this section will mean an increase in the number of houses and residents O' this section. as well as an increased attendance of school children, In or der that proper sewers may be bull in this section and the existing nuis- ance may be enclosed in a suitable culvert and abated, I think the nex legislature should be requested to an nex this section to the city.
 Streets.
 oil was used on all the princlpa streets during last summer. instead O water as was formerly the custom This seems a very satisfactory anC successful way of solving the dus problem during the summer months. 4 lna glf iF,1 of the macadam streets would resul if they were well cleaned before th' oil was applied
 Tuberculosis.
 There were 35 deaths from consump ton in the town during the past year a decrease of five from the previoui year. In the city g cases were re ported. Several of these cases were no reported until after death. There wa some improvement on the part of phy sicians in reporting these cases, bu there is still a chance for further i'm provement. The tuberculosis hospita now in process of erection at Thames vile will, I trust he of much bened in caring for this class of patients il this locality.
 Prosecutions.
 There were three prosecutions an convictions during the year. One il April for maintaining a nuisance, on in May for tearing down diphtheri placard, and one in December for emp tying cesspool upon street without per init.
 Free Text Books.
 There has been considerable agita tion during recent years for free tex l books in schools. I am not in favo i Of this proposition, as l consider tn 1 distribution of books among childre and changing these books one child t another an easy way of spreading dis l ease.
 Water.
 During the past summer from Ma | 1st to December 1st water was pump 1 ed from Trading Cove brook. Tw | Roberts filters were installed befor pumping was begun, and all wate i passed through these filters before ell 1 tering the city mains The water wa | tested frequently through the summe and fall and found 10 Le safe fo drinking purposes. At the present tim | Fairview reservoir is within abou 1 three feet of full, with a reasonabl chance of filling 'before May 1st, an Stony BrOOK reSerNOif IS well ullueI way. so there will be sufficient wate 1 for all purposes in the near future. Antitoxin.
 l The last legislature passed bill au | thorizing the state to furnish fire antitoxin for use in diphtheria wher i required upon order of the health off : cer. Seventy seven thousand unit have been distributed since Decembe 1 1st. when arrangements were complet ed whereby antitoxin would be fur nished.
 l There were 76 houses fUmigated an | , schoolhouses. There were IA case of carlet fever, 40 of diphtheria, C typhoid, 2 of measles, p of tuberculo i sis reported during the year. Ther were ASA deaths, the death rate bein l 1o rhnre urera 2S deaths from tuher