St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-09-26

of our City, and an ordinance regu
lating the sale of milk and It's pro
ducts. | ask for the enactment OF
these ordinances. / have spent {
great deal of time and care in writ
ing these ordinances, especially the
milk ordinance. The milk ordinance
may appear drastic upon first read
ing, but I do not think we can be tor
exacting in our regulations concern
ing the handling and sale of this i'm
| portant article of diet. am working
on a good many ordinance which
shall present for your consideration
at a subsequent meeting of you
Board.
l would suggest that our BoarG
have regular stated meetings every
month or every two months.
/ wish to state that the people
are as a rule much more wiling tc
and much more readily observe the
sanitary regulations and orders thar
ever before. I say, without any de
sire to boast or to exaggerate that
our City is in as healthy condition
as any city of it's size in the South
The preceding Board of Health, OF
which most of you were members
had for its main object the estab.
lishment of a sewerage system fol
u City and they accomplished this
object. Our present Board can &C
complish equally as much and more
for our City by the enactment and ex.
ecution of proper ordinances relat,
ing to the Improvement of it's SAM
tary condition.
Respectfully,
B. A. LITTELL. M. D.,
Chairman of the City Board of Health
Moved by Dr.. Boagni that the
Chairman be instructed to again call
upon the Mayor and Board of Alder
lei and that he again urge upon
them the necessity of Immediately
cleaning out the gullies and cutters
and abating the other nuisances ex-
listing in our city. Motion seconded
by Mr.. Ventre and carried.
Inspector Hollier submitted the
following report, which on motion
duly seconded and carried, was ac-
cepted and ordered filed:
Opelousas, August II, 1914.
City Board of Health:
Gentlemen have inspected the
city, throughout, have gone to every
house in the City limits with a few
exceptions. l found the City in very
bad condition in some parts, but the
people have obeyed instructions and
cleaned up well. Have served no.
tees on the three Railroads running
through the City, the Southern Pa
ciic, the o. G. & N. E., and the Fris-
co cut weeds and briars and to
clean out all bitches and drains on
their road. The Frisco has obeyed
instructions and are cutting weeds
and briars and cleaning drains and
S. P. and o. G. have not done any
cleaning Of drains or bitches yet. On
Aug. Is l inspected the Railroads
and found only the Frisco at work
cleaning up. | find the gullies run
ming through the city in bad condi-
ton. The Mayors and Rawls gullies
and Bayou Lessin are all thru over
grown with weeds and grass. The
people living a the gullies com
plain that they are made to cut
weeds and clean up while the town
does not cut its weeds. ] have tried
to make them understand that the
Board of Health is working to this
point. Now after examining the gull
lies l think they should be cleaned
out, but if We cannot have them
cleaned through it could be done,
say, Lessin from Jefferson st. to O..
G. track. Rawls gulley from Grolee
st. to South ST. and Mayors gulley
froro kTop+I,I O. &@ n ~ Jr ca 49,
on my second round of inspec-
ton. Find the weeds have been cut
but have grown high again. Some of
the people say they have cut weeds
once and will not cut again. l find
some few c%isterns that have not
been screened.
Now, gentlemen / have given this
work my close attention and hope
it will meet with the satisfaction of
the City Board of Health. ] made
notices in duplicate of each place I
have made a full report
of my work and turned it over to the
President of the Board of Health, DIR.
A. Littell.
Respectfully your,
A. l.. HOLLIER,
City Inspector.
Ordinance No. 2 was read and
adopted section by section.
Ordinance No. 8 was read and
section by section.
Ordinance No. 4 was read and
section by section.
Ordinance No. 5 was read and
section by section.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the chairman was instructed to
continue the services of Mr.. Hollier
Sanitary Inspector.
After a discussion of various health
matters the Board adjourned subject
to call.
B. A. LITTELL, NJ. D.,
of the CITY Board of Health