University Missourian., 1913-10-24
Or, JESSE COMMENTS
ON COUNCILS ACTION
Thinks Board of Health Was
Not Trusted
Enough.
A P A RTIAI, I, A w
P A R T IAL l. A w
Municipal Abattoir Is Most
Up-to-Date Method,
He Says.

fare" said DR.. R. H. Jesse, former
president of the University.
To such men he is ever willing to
trust his health and that of his family
They have no other than beneficient
interest in the question of whether a
slaughter house should be located in
the center of the CITY," said Doctor
Jesse. They do not argue for it from
basis of real estate values. The
slaughter house on West Broadway
may now be perfectly sanitary in every
way; but at any time it may pass into
less careful hands and then prove a
menace to public health. The council
has set it in the center of the city,
like jewel in ring, even though
he board of health protested
1T has been said in the newspapers
nat the packing house on West Broad
way was an open and admitted viola
ton of the law. What is done? The
offender is not made to answer to the
law. The law is changed so that the
offender will not be in opposition to it.
Even fine would have preserved the
up before her sister cities the ridic-
ulous precedent of remaking laws to
avoid enforcing those she already has.
has
The board of health does not have
enough power. 1t can only make rec
concentrations" said DR.. Jesse. And
its recommendations sometimes are
laughed at. So it seems. Nearly a
month ago the board, a rarely good
municipal body, made to the council
a report on water conditions. In We'd
nesday nights Missourian DR.. Wood
son Moss stated that he was going to
resign from the board He adds that
last Monday he went out to the water
works and found that rain was wash
ing through rubbish and manure, or
was kept from doing so only by lack
of rain, into the city water; that a
month ago the board of health advised
the council to remove all this trash
and to dig ditch in order to drain
away from the reservoir. DR.. Moss
says that when he went there last
Monday not a shovel full of earth had
been lifted If there were any typhoid
germs in the water they would not
wait for the city council to act.
The State Board of Health has the
necessary executive powers; but to
call that board in to remedy local
ronditions, if they are found to need
it, would be to hold Columbia up to
the shame of the state.
tinued, If the Columbia board of
health were given more power Or at
least if serious consideration were
given their recommendations. 1t would
be better to take more time in the
passing of ordinances. Let more of
our citizens look into these matters.
Columbia has entrusted to her care
| each year approximately 1000 youths
and maidens-the most precious pos
sessions of the state. There should
be no question at all as to the purity
of her water nor as to other sanitary
conditions. 1t should be that any
man who could suggest that the wa,
ter is impure would be thought foolish
The University does all that it can tt
care for its charges. 1t furnishes then
water that cannot be questioned. 81
likewise does Christian College. Blu
/ 1.-THE students have to use some cit,
water There is some doubt as to tn
purity of that water. Read again wha
| DIR. Moss says about it. The Univers
ity does the next best thing it ca
by offering to vaccinate all student
against typhoid for merely the cos
| of the material used
The people of Columbia should iI
vestigate these matters and then
allowed to express their ideas, if the
choose to do so, before a good con
mittee. The committee should in tin
report to the council Only then shoul
slaughter house questions be final
| settled"
! Besides the question of sanitatio
DR.. Jesse thinks that a municip
abattoir, we'll managed, might gil
Boone county farmers better pric
for their animals and Columbians 10y
er prices on their meats. In the mai
countries of Europe where SUI
slaughter houses have been built it
found that farmers raise more cattl
These, when fat. they consign to t
abattoir where they receive bett
prices than they can get from priva
concerns. Thus they turn to raisi
more cattle.
7 The meat bought directly from t
farmers is then sold directly to t
consumers. 1t does not pass throu
the hands of middlemen, each of wht
- takes a slice from the profits of