The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-14
WANT LICENSES
FOR PLUMBERS
Health Board Asked to RGgu-
late the Business.


Llewenyn B. Tompkins, Walter V.
Meslar and d. R. O'Keefe, represent
ing the master plumbers association,
asked the. board of health Monday
evening to take advantage, of a recent
law passed by the Legislature and
provide Tor the licensing and bond
ing of plumbers doing business in
Morristown. 1t was said that out-of-
town plumbers can come here, do a
job and collecting for it leave town
and there is no way to get them II
the job does not turn out to be cor
rectly done Ii Morristown plumbers
work in Madison, Summit, Newark or
New York they have to file bona
for $500. r
The health board was asked to ap-
point licensing commission consist
ing of one of the boards plublng in
spectors, master plumber and
journeyman plumber. The code in
use at Orange was read and 1t pro-
vided that plumbers to do work there
have to file a bond of $500 reneWaabl
every year or the master plumbers
association can file bond OF $2,O0O
to cover the members of its associa-
tion.
The matter was referred to the
sanitary committee to report at the
next meeting of the board.
DR.. Francis H. GTazebrook, secre-
tary of the board, reported the re-
ceipt from the state board of health
of notices thaat almost every dealer
in produce and fruits in town had
been found violating the law regard
ing the exposure OF foodstuffs to flies
dirt and dust He said that he be-
lieved to live up to the letter OF the
law to be almost impossible and that
it was the spirit OF the local health
board to be as lenient as possible~a1id
not incur hardships on anybody. ~
is an important law, however, ana
there is a certain amount of careless
ness. In some o. the bakeries ana
confectioneries o. the town trays5pf
cake, bread, pies and candy are. DIS
played without protection from s-tne
flies and dirt. Windows in which
such articles are displayed, he AS
3 serted, should be kept closed tight
SO that flies and dirt cannot entefsN
Inspector Belbey said that to com
ply with the present foodstuff law a
dealer would have to do business in
a greenhouse. President Burr re-
marked that in his opinion the soda
fountains should also receive atten-
stion.
The board will take the matter up
and endeayor to seq that foodstuffs
are properly protected and that
dealers comply with the law as far
as possible.
Mr.. Caskey, of the dairy committee,
called attention to the provisions OF
.-sthaA heaaltaa code fcrbiddina the aale of
milk other than in bottles and said
that he had heard of stores where
the old style of dipping the milk
from cans is in vogue. The matter
was referred to his committee for in
vestigation.
Charles Anderson complained to the
board that Harry Jones permitted his
chickens to run at large. Mr.. Jones
told the board that he lived at the
end of Linden street and that he had
been advised by Inspector VanDyke
that he was violating the chicken or
dinance. Mr.. Anderson was informed
that there was nothing in the ordin-
ance against chickens running at
large and that if they damaged his
property in anyway he should bring
suit against their owner. Presldent
Burr promised to have the counsel
look into the legal points involved
and until JndL is uOHo uO tStiOh WIZ
be taken by the board. tr
DIR. Henry w. Dustan, dairy inspec-
tor. reported that all producers had
complied with the ordinance requlr-
ing a tubercular test of COWS except
the owners of two small herds in
each of which one or two COWS had
not yet been tested. All would re9
ceive the test within a few weeks.
Three new producers are supplying
milk to Morrstown, Dr. Dustan re-
ported He had warned producers
about keeping better conditions OF
cleanliness in yards, stables and
utensils as we'll as with the cattle.
1t was the first meeting of the
board since July and routine reports
for three months were presented.
Plumbing Inspector Belbey reported
making 22S inspections in the months
of July. August and September, re-
ceipts of $145.50, forty-two connec-
tions to the sewer, total to date
of 1858 and fifty-seven sets of plans
Tiled.
Sanitary Inspector VanDyke re-
ported forty-one complaints, 211 in
spections, eighty-five re-inspections,
104 interviews, sixty-seven nuisances
abated, four notices sent, eighteen
letters sent, seven houses fumigated,
twenty-five rooms fumigated.
Vital statistics are Eighteen mar
riages, seventy four births, four still
births, eighty deaths.
Health Physician James Douglas re
ported one case of mumps, two chick
en-pox, one pertussis, four tubercu-
losis, one tubercular meningitis, five
typhoid fever, one impetigo contagion
one roseOla.