The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-15
delivery made Of the mail that comes
in on No. 40
Respectfully submitted,
IRA WILLS, Chairman.

in on No. 40.
n Respectfully submitted,
IRA WILLS, Chairman.
Committee on Housing and Building.
Your committee on housing and
building laws respectfully reports
Il that on the tenth of this month they
bad a conference with the city coun-
Gil of the city OF Keokuk in order to
be In touch with the Views of the
council on the matter OF building laws
and to learn If we might have their
cooperation in the preparing of a
code bearing upon sanitation, fire pro-
i lection, electric wiring and plumbing
We were met cordially by the coun-
!, ell with the caution on their part that
our code should not be too elaborate.
We are collecting material for our
work and have nothing further to re-
port at this time
Respectfully submitted,
1 w. J. FULTON, Chairman,
Parks, Fairgrounds and General I'M
provements.
On Dec. goth, sent Mr.. John Nolen
a carbon copy OF Mr.. Hollingsworth's
letter ION the legal powers OF the
lfity in relation to It's bonded debt)
and i'll this letter to Mr.. Nolen in
| speaking OF the letter said, "All in
all 1t is quite satisfactory and you
will note his concluding view that
there is ample power for all about
which / inquired and that the financ-
| ing can take care of itself as things
develop Also, his view Is that you
should give US the best possible city
| plan and let us work out the rest OF
lit as time goes on. Without consult
ting anybody else concur in this
! view" On Dec. Mr.. Nolen wrote me
| a short answer to this letter in which
he said: Il shall go ahead on that
i basis
Ny committee wishes to further
consider the matter of the Rees home
stead for park, and as understand
| has granted permission to do SO. 1t
| is also in possession of letter from
Mr.. Boyd indicating that the Stark
Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co., OF
| Louisiana, Mo, has offered free of
cost to furnish shade and ornamental
trees and foreman for the new river
road from Keokuk to Montrose if
the planting will be done by local in
/ terests. I have seen the individual
members of our board Of supervisors
and they appear to take much interest
! in it.
Committee on Public Health.
I II have to report that the commit
tee on hygiene has so far been busy
informing itself principally on the
matters committed to it's care. Little
work has been done on the actual
warfare against unsanitary conditions
! but a good deal has been accomplish
ed in collecting literature relating to
hygiene.
DR.. Fuller who Is in charge of the
1 tuberculosis campaign plans a set of
lectures to be given in parts OF the
town where tuberculosis is most rife
and ignorance of danger is greatest,
DR.. Fuller plans to have the moving
picture shows give reels particularly
INTENDED to show the dangers of tu'
lberculosis. To these will be added
reels showing the life history Of the
4 fly and its dangers and others of the
same sort of hygiene.
MFR Jules Remand has kindly of
fered to put at the command of the
committee a sum of SALT received
from the sale of Red Cross stamps t.
be used in paying for the films uset
in the crusade against unsanitar.
conditions.
"Dr. Moorehead has collected a Sc
of cards giving the correct method 0
rating diaries on a point system.
Mr. Mcfarland has collected
great deal Of literature on the sub
4 ject of removal OF wastes.
THE chairman of the hygiene CON
( mittee has had several conference
q with the new manager of the waite
a works and will have more to repor
; on that subject later.
Very respectfully,
I M. MEIGS, u. S. c. E.,
. Chairman.