The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-12
NURSES, CHICKENS, ABATTOIR BEFORE
 BOARD OF HEALTH
Commissioners Have Raft of Routine Business at Reg
 ular Meeting.

School nurses reports, chickens, un- covered garbage cans, slaughterhouse improvements and milk inspection re- ports occupied last nights session of the Board of Health.
 Informal discussion on reports now being submitted by the school nurses met with the decision that not much could be gIeaned from them as units but that the yearly improvement might be visible It was hoped the good work might continue. sf
 Owing to delay in collecting last years assessment against the state for Pasteur treatment rendered one patient, amounting to s110, Clerk Dun bar was instructed to have all bills incurred sent at once to the state.
 Complaint was made of a barn next to 39 Vine street near the corner of Park avenue It is alleged that the barn has become such a, nuisance that persons cannot sit on the stoop of the adjoining house and tenants have been lost It was ordered that if conditions complained of were found to exist the nuisance should be abolished.
 An invitation, from Elias Howe post | No. 3, G.. AR, to part cipate in the Memorial Day. parade was accepted The question of having floor coy ering for the ofhce of the slaughter house, provoked much pleasantly with the consensus that oilcloth covering was not needed when sawdust could be secured cheap1y.l It wa salso sug- gested by Commissioner Zepp that the superintendent of the slaughter house the wood which would not be hurt One facetious reporter suggested, soto voce, that Warrenite might be ac- ceptable to the administration
 Chickens belonging to c. A. Whit ger, 359 Wood avenue, came in for con | H H. -%E rooster which neighbors say has per sisted internationally for some weeks When it was. shown that the owner had been repeatedly warned by the 1 prosecuting attorney to remove the objectionable bird, but had merely moving from Grove street to Wood Iavenue, that. he might escape the wrathf 0 his erstwhi1ei neighbors, the board ordered that all his chickens be removed Incidentally, Conmissioner Zepp detailed his experiences with 1 ly in the morning, declaring that he had discovered they had at least 15 different tones to their growing
 Owners of houses who failed to com
 ply with the. garbage can cover ordt- nance came in for a severe rakine over with the result that patches ot I complaints made by inspectors are tc fbe turned over to the prosecuting at torney It was advocated that prose 1 cution of many other matters be ad- lvanced at an early date
 l These rules regarding the slaughter i house, to replace those now in force were passed:
 l .sThe superintendent of the slaugh- ter house shall have charge of said slaughter house, cattle pens and al I that appertains thereto He shall col fleet all fees and receive all moneys 1 due the city and pay the same to the clerk of the health department at the end of each week. He shall keep 2 daily record of all animals received and slaughtered together with th'
 names of the owners of the same or lsheets furnished by the health depart j rent and shal mail the same daily t the office of the said department il Il stamped envelopes furnished by tn
 said department, keeping a duplicat
 of the same on file at said slaughte
 house. He shall file a monthly repor
 with the board of health showing tn number of animals received, of tn
 number slaughtered at said slaughte
 house alto the amount. of meat con
 demned the amount of money recefve' and turned over to the clerk, the con
 dition of the slaughter house, what re {. pairs should be. necessary and sucl other matters as should be proper t
 bring before said board
 Inspection of all milk dealers an,
 distributors showed about 27 to b good, ten excellent and five bad. I
 Is believed that conditions will be S much improved upon the next inspec , tion that publication of the deIin ! quents will not be necessary.
 Secretary Daniels designated tn Rev. Julius w Atwood, Episcopa