Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-09

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Fred Wigfeld, Highway Commissioner
Jacob Meshey, Chief of Police If. p.
Longnaker and Councilmen T. II. Nc
Entee, Charles +. Reisch and Charles
II. heim, members of the sanitary
committee, following cleanup week"
conditions were found in sections of
the borough that would shame the
hlthiest of Mexican villages, accord
ing 10 the report made by the sanitary
committee last evening.
Some of the conditions revealed by
the report are so revolving that they
may not be described in a newspaper.
Al o52 FRANKLIN street, the report de-
clares Petre Faziloft, is owner of a
stable and bake shop which are under
the same roof. Manure, the report
continues Is piled around the bake
oven and some of the refuse is in the
room wheer the baking is done.
CoE-:itions UnprintabIe
But this is mild compared to what
the committee found in the Bear
Pit, as row of frame shacks within
a stones throw of the home Of Ed
ward Lewis, secretary of the Board
or Health, is known. This part of
the committees report is unprintable.
Suiiice to pick out a few items.
Says the report: I'VE find the
X
at Steel and Canal alleys, known as
the BE ar Pit TO be the worst eyesore
In the borough. These peopIe have
no water and must get water from
their neighbors. The cesspool is
flled and running over. There is an
abandoned shanty, across the railroad
used for a toilet"
AT Buser's Run" the report re-
lates, the usual filthy and unsanitary
condition Is found. Blood and other
o1all from butcher shops, night soil
and other sewage is being emptied into
the Pennsylvania Canal.
we also inspected part of Cam
eron's field where the borough and
some of the businessmen of town
dump their garbage. We find where
butchers and storekeepers have DUNN
ed decayed meat, wrapped in paner
decayed eggs and other refuse from
their places of business, making this
section very unsanitary. We also find
quantity of broken beer bottles
dumped along Main street, partly
within the borough and partly outside
the borough.
Where Ice Cream Is Sold
THE condition at Melman's stable
in Frederick street is very unsanitarv
Brine from the horse and COW manure
runs across the sidewalk into the gut
ter and from there to the storm sewer
They keep horses, cows, dogs cats.
chickens, ducks and geese in this
stable and they sell bread, milk and
ice cream.
1--WE find the cesspools at several
brick rows owned by the PENNSYLVANIA
Steel Company, fronting in Furnace
and Frederick streets, are not on the
sanitary sewer, are filled and running
over The drainage is improper and
not sufficient and conditions are un-
sanitary in general. The stencil aris-
ing from this locality, in our opinion,
is sufficient to cause an epidemic of
smallpox, typhoid fever and most any
disease"
In closing the committee suggested
that the Health officer be instructed
to invesfigate conditions, cited in the
report and have them eliminated
within reasonable time"
This matter is purely up to the
Board of Health declared Mr.. Nc
Entee following reading of the re-
port and this opinion was shared by
council when it was unanimously
agreed that the health authorities
should be instructed to get busy at
once.
In municipal circles the sanitary
committees report is viewed with
significance. 1t is taken to mean that
council wants to see some action on
the part of the Health Board which
hithertofore has been rather inde-
pendent of council.
1t was onl a few months ago that
Edward Lewis, who has served the
borough in many capacities, was ap-
pointed by council as secretary of the
board of health with view to giving
the board sufficient men to enable
sanitary affairs to be administered
efficiently. Mr.. Lewis was also given
the powers of plumbing inspector with
view to remedying conditions SINH
lar to some of those reported last eve-