The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-05-13
ASH DUMPS TALK
OF HEALTH BOARD
Town Should Collect Garbage
is the Verdict.

After hearing Mrs. q. Kirk Haskell,
chairman of the sanitation committee
of the Women's Town Improvement
committee, describe conditions found
by her on certain of the town ash
dumps mem bers of the board of health
Monday evening explained to her
Just what the boards powers in the
matter were and also put up to a
member of the board of aldermen
present that the solution of the dump
problem is the collection of the gar
bage by the town, which the health
board has recommended annually for
the past five years.
That the dumps are necessity
was declared by President Burr,
many pieces of valuable property now
having once been filled in with ashes.
The mixing of garbage with the
ashes he declared was the cause OF
the odors from the dumps, something
which many householders are guilty
of though there is an ordinance
against it. AS for paper blowing about
he declared there was nothing detri-
mental to health about it and the
only redress was by civil suit brought
by the sufferer against the owner OF
the property.
Inspector Belbey declared that some
tgrocerymen and marketmen made a
~1ractice of dumping decayed veg
7efables on the dumps.
. DR.. Glazebrook asserted for Mrs.
Haskell's benefit that the members
of the board were volunteers who
recognize their shortcomings. They
had limited ability to take immediate
or drastic action in such matters as
that under discussion but when COM
plants are received everything pos
asible is done to relieve conditions.
The revocation of licenses to ash
cart men and the sueing Of property
owners regarding the condition of
dumps he declared would be unend-
ing if it was started, but the board
was striving to remedy conditions.
All interested should bring before the
kboard of aldermen the necessity of
garbage collection at it's next annual
meeting. Until the garbage Is col
lected by the town there is no way
of stopping the throwing of decayed
vegetables on the dumps, he declared.
1t is the rich as well as the poor
who offend by putting garbage in the
ash cans, declared DR.. Glazebrook.
Every citizen should watch his ash
pail and see that the cook placed no
garbage in it. Many of the things
Complained of, continued the physi-
Clan, were eyesores rather than nui-
sances and not necessarily dangerous
to health.
- Alderman Linder told the health
board that there was no chance this
year for garbage disposal nor for
years to come unless someone gives
the money for the plant and then it
would be a continued expense to
operate
This view of the matter did not
meet with Dr. azebrook's approval.
He asserted that for $1,000 or even
$500 a man can be secured to col
lect the garbage and that the need
of an expensive disposal plant by
the town was "all rot" Bids for the
collection of garbage should be ad-
verticed for, he said
Town Counsel Vogt declared the
town cannot pass an ordinance COM
pelling people to give their garbage
to collector under the present town
charter and asserted that the town
needs modern and up-to-date char
ter.
D6l6N6 Ludl WAclt tu0lc 10 q
will there is a way said DR.. Glaze
brook. ''If the board of aldermen
will give this matter serious thought
some plan can be discovered by jan
uary 1st to do this work"
A letter was received from Phil. p.
Jacobs in which he denied he made
gGarlet fever were allowed to run
~, uyho ha
termed the hasty action of the board,
the statement attributed to him as
published in the "Record" to be gar
bled and a misquotation and offered
to present affidavits as to what he
said.
The letter from Mr. Jacobs was
ordered referred to the Record
with a request for an explanation.
The ordinance requiring tuber-
cular test of COWS was given its sec
-ond reading.
Plumbing Inspector Belbey reported
nineteen plans filed during April, 110
inspections made, fourteen connections
to the sewer made, making a total
of 1878, and receipts for the month
of $40.
Health Inspector VanDykei reported
nine complaints received, ninety-six
inspections made, thirty-four reinspec-
tions, thirty-six interviews, thirty
four nuisances abated, six letters
sent, five houses fumigated, seven
teen rooms.
= Deaths during April numbered thir-
ty-nine, nine of which were non-resi-
dents. There We're ten marriages,
twenty-seven births and one still
birth. Two cases of scarlet fever
were reported, and two of tubercul-
6sis, one of the latter coming here
from Philadelphia; five cases of
measles.
Madame JalIIet's Concert
Bv reuuest of her natrons Madame