Evening journal., 1913-03-03
MILL CREEK
WAKS AGAINST
NEW HOSPITAL
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compelled 10 use in our families.
Several dairies secure drinking
water for their cattle from the
streams mentioned, furnish milk
TO the city Of Wilmington, there
by menacing the health of the
city; would depreciate the value
Of the property of a thickly popu-
lated and growing community.
Whereas, We taxpayers and
residents of said hundred do not
favor the Institution OF said hos
pital for negroes afflicted with tu-
berculosis either on the Lloyd
property or any other property in
said hundred
Resolved. That we, the taxpay-
ers aud residents of Mill Greek
hundred, disapproye of the action
of the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis
Commission in attempting to To-
cate said hospital on the Lloyd
property or any other property
located in said hundred without
regard to the wishes of the citi-
Zens Of said hundred.
Resolved. That we. the taxpay-
ers and residents of said hundred
respectfully petition the Legisla.
ture of the state of Delaware,
that in case the Delaware Anti
tuberculosis Commission estab-
lish the said negro hospital on tho
Lloyd property or any other prop
erty located in Mill Greek hum
dred. that all appropriations to tu-
berculosis hospitals be withheld.
Resolved. That copies of these
preambles and resolutions be
forwarded to the Delaware Anti
tuberculosis Commission and that
they be published in the public
press as indicative OF the sense
OF the taxpayers and residents Of
iMlll Greek hundred.
A second resolution follows:
Whereas. The Delaware Anti
tuberculosis Society has at pre-
sent a hospital for the treatment
Of patients afflicted with tuber-
culosis in Mill Creek hundred.
New Castle County, Delaware,
which is a menace to the health
not only of the community, but of
the general public. They have by
establishing this hospital polluted
our streams of water with sewage
from which our cattle drink. The
attendants and patients mingle
unrestricted with the general
public by riding in our public
conveyances; send their clothing
by trolley to a laundry in VIII
mington to be washed thereby
subjecting milk, fruit and vege-
tables that may be in transit on
the same trolley with tuberculosis
germs; allow old newspapers.
paper bags and other rubbish to
be blown across our properties;
have gathered vegetables, and sold
the same in our street market.
which were raised in close proX-
unity to the hospital; have per-
mitted trespassing on our proper
ties Of patients and attendants;
the cess pools or ceptic tanks
have at times become clogged
with the excretions of patients
and attendants; the cess pools or
ceptic tanks were cleaned ont and
contents Of same were spread on
the ground exposed to the
elements and flies The odor from
this hospital by burning the eX-
pectorate from the patients or
some other substances, is at
times unbearable to those who
have to live in close proximity
to the hospital: and further the
said society seems to have no re-
gard whatever for economy in
spending the public's money.
Resolved, That We taxpayers
and citizens Of Mill Greek hun
dred. New Castle county. Della
ware. condemn the Delaware
Anti-Tuberculosis Society for the
way they manage Hope Farm. and
demand that the State Board of
Health make a thorough investi-
cation of the sanitary condition
of said Hope Farm every month
and place stringent regulations on
same in order to protect the
health of the immediate commun-
ity and also the general public.
BE Il Further Resolved. That
we respectfully petition that the
Legislature of the State and also
the Levy Court of New Castle
county see that the State Board of
Health does its duty to We tax
payers and citizens of Mill Creek
hundred In regards to the sani-
tary condition and financial man
agement of said Hope Farm be-
fore making any further appropri-
ations in order that the tax
payers in general may not me inn
posed upon.
And Be II Still Further Re-
solved. That copies of these pre-
ambles and resolutions be for
warded to the Secretary of the
State Board of Health, to the Del
aware Anti-Tuberculosis Society,
and that they be published in the
public press as Indicative of the
sense Of the taxpayers of Mill