The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-03
SUMMERS NAMED
BY HEALTH BOARD
Young Physician Succeeds DIR. T.
V. Goode, Jr., as Medi-
cal Inspector.
STABLE ORDINANCE STANDS
City Water All Right, Says DR..
Levy-Warns Against Wells
and Springs.

DR.. B. e. Summers. formerly an in
terne at the Retreat for the Sick, was
unanimously elected Medical Inspector
of the Richmond Health Department
by the Board OF Health last night. lie
succeeds DR.. T. V. Goode, Jr., who, af-
ter service OF only two months, gave
up the position on account of his
health. DIR. Summers was mentioned
for the position at the time of DR..
Goodies election, and has been as
sisting In the department since DR..
Goode became Ill. He is highly in
dorsed by DR.. Levy and others.
The Board of Health, after an cx-
tended hearing last night. reatirmed
its position In regard to stables. 1t
VIII hereafter insist on sound, tight
floors In all stables. public and pri-
vate, inpervious to water I'm the stall,
and for four feet behind. with a drain
TO sewer wherever available. The
rule was made by tho Health Depart
ment in its crusade against unsanitary
stables more than a year ago. but the
enforcement was recently held up on
request OF the Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty to Animals. which held
that 1t was unhealty for horses to
stand all night on hard concrete floors.
To Have Movable Floors.
@ AuiA hCeii liie idSb HiSht' dhu
examination of the ordinances in many
cities, the board reatfirmed its posi-
ton. the local ordinance being worded
almost identically like the one In
Washington City. 1t will require a
concrete floor In the stall, over which
the owner may lay wooden floor or a
movable platform or other standing
place for his horse, such as he thinks
most suitable. provided it can be
I'll h.t No i,
ton is impervious to moisture.
1t prohibits dirt floors OF all kinds.
and Will be strictly enforced at once,
as the Health Board regards filthy. un-
sanitary stables. both public and pri-
vate, as the chief source OF flies. and
as the cause of many diseases.
In connection with the Health Board
meeting, Chief Health officer Il. c.
Levy stated that many complaints
had come to hi, department and 10 the
Water Department OF noticeable
odor on water from the Lee District
standpipe service in the West End
Or Levy said he had made personal
investigation of the water. spend ne
two days at the settling basin. He
had found small microscopic vege-
table growth IN the water known rs
aisa. which, he asserted. was ab-iute
~ not detrimental to health
Trouble Soon to Disappear.
Water at the settling basin has
! been treated SO that the trouble vii
shortly disappear, but millions of gal
Ions containing the alga have beer
| pumped TO the reservoirs, SO that the
! odor may be noticeable in all parts
! OF the city for some days.
Any person who objects to this
said D:. Levy, can get rid of it By
simply allowing the water to boil for
three or four minutes have tried
II myself. and find that allowing the
water 10 come to boil for a few
minutes. and then cool, allows all OF
the gas 20 escape, aad leaves the water
pure and healthy. What ! really fear
is that conditions viii happen here as
they did at Springfield. Mass. last
year, where n similar condition oc-
Cured. There many people became
afraid OF the city water. and drank
water from old wells and springs on
the city's outskirts. and an epidemic
OF typhoid fever followed The civ
water with this vegetable growth in
It, even though 1t smells bad. is en-
trely healthy. and is much safer than
Old wells and springs to be found in
the suburbs, which are far mor,. dan
gerous.'