The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-22
CLEAN CITY SAY HEALTH
 AUTHORITIES Police to Be Asked to Join in
 Movement Dirty Yards A Nuisance Says Inspector Lynch Who Sounds
 Warning

r A cleaner and a healthier Bridge port is the object which is being; keen Iy pursued by the local Health author ft1es In the belief that much has
 been ieft undone, both by the public
 and city departments, towards 11pI1oId-
 ing the rules and regulations for gen. eraI sanitation. A conference between the police and health commi ssioners
 is scheduled for o'clock this evenine 2
 at which time the police authorities
 will be asked to earnestly and active 1y cooperate in the work
 A general appeal was this morning issued by Health Inspector David W
 Lynch to all residents in the city to
 clean up not only their back yards
 and places where refuse, dirt, and gar
 bage collects, but to aid in the work
 by reporting adjacent yards where dis
 ease-conveying insects are liable to
 thrive
 Stables where horses, COWS and oth- CT animals are kept are now under
 the special eye of the officials. No
 tidcat1on is made of the intention of
 the department of insisting that all
 stab1e-cleanings shall be properly cov-
 cred, both inside and during rernov-
 al through the streets In no in
 stance shall piles be left longer than eight days before removal from the
 city. Violation will be subject to rig
 orous prosecution.
 That danger from the carrying of
 disease germs by the common house
 fly, can be greatly eliminated at this
 terest can be stimulated, Is the belief of the officials of the Health depart nent. It is thought by those in close touch with the situation that scientific extinction of the pest will be asked to aid financially in a fund sufficient to enlist the school-chiEdren in a general battle against the first arrivals.
 At ton1ght's joint meeting of the Police and Health Boards; the atten- ton of the police officials will be call ed to the general practice of dump ing refuse in the city streets and an effort will be made to have officers held accountable for unsanitary condf- tions on their posts in the future
 Inspector. Lynch when asked this as to the conditions which have occasioned this necessity said: While Bridgeport as a whole is in cnned to preserve the general health, 1 there are many delinquencies. In some of the sections where aliens pre- dominate not only are the back and | front yards not kept clean, but dead animals and garbage is daily dumped | into the gutters.
 Producing "a list of over 20 com pIaints which had been sent to the department this morning he continu- ed: .@You will readily observe that no one inspector can take care of such a number ir1 person. It would seem that cooperation upon the part of the po- lice is desirable. It was thought well to make formal request of the Board In this and other matters of which am not prepared to speak at the pres snt moment
 ''It is surprising how hard it is at he present season of the year to have people realize the necessity for reTnov-
 1 pack yards. This is due to several causes the excuse most commonly yiyen being that until the furnaces nave been abandoned for the winter, t would be a hardship to remove the piles of ashes and dirt which have Others allege that owners # the buildings reside in far-away .fties Still others persist in ignor- ng the five days notice, and have to 5e reported to the County Health of icer who is experimenting the same lih1culties in prosecution
 within radius of three blocks from >olice headquarters can point out tn saIIey-way where piles of ashes, mingled with decaying garbage, dead hicIxers tin-cans, tangled wire and -arioals assortment of filth has been collecting all during the win CT and has but lately been discover d. While we are proceeding trongly against the owners of this roperty, who still have two days in which to clean 1t ups there are prob bIy many similar instances about the itv which menace the health of the and it Is with a view of etecting, and where jurisdiction ob aims, prosecuting such cases that we re appealing to the police. The Board of Health commissioners ropose to make this clean city and he people themselves should aid us V reporting violations of the laws vhere they see them You may say hat vigorous prosecutions will follow II failures to obey the law they ome to light during the coming