Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-16
Commissioners Discuss Out
lines at Meeting Here
Yesterday.
TO PROTECT THE CITY
DR.. S. DeZell Hawley Makes
Report After Tour of
Larger Cities.

Tulsa is going in for sanitation.
The mayor and the commissioners
gave such a plan their o. *. yester
'day morning when they received the
report of DR.. s. DeZell Hawley. super
lintendent of city health, and Commits
sioner A. d. Walker of the street and
public property department, suggest
ing that tSe city officials secure a
complete sanitary survey and report
of the city. made by an authority of
national prominence, and that the
methods suggested by this authority
be carried out
I 1t appeared that this was the mat
\ter uppermost in the minds of the
city officials in their meeting yester-
day morning. and most of the meet
ing was devoted to a discussion of this
project.
/ Recently Doctor Hawley and Com
missioner Walker made tour of sew
eral of the larger cities. during which
they had interviews with some of the
most prominent health and sanitary
engineers in the country. During
their stay. also, they made survey
of the conditions, with reference to
sanitation, in Chicago. Springfield
and other cities where this important
matter was given its due considera-
ton by the city officials. AS q re-
suit of this tour they informed the
commissioners yesterday morning
they were of the opinion that one of
the biggest problems now confronting
the executives OF Tulsa was that of a
system of proper sanitary methods to
eliminate conditions with which Doc
! tor Hawlcy has been confronted since
he assumed the duties of chief health
officer for Tulsa
Get Great Engineer.
Aside from the report OF their in
! vestigation, which was filed with the
commission, Doctor Hawley and Com
missioner Walker informed the city
officials that they had secured the
noted sanitary engineer, Frank Flasch,
and the United Engineering company
to make a survey of the city and out
line a method of garbage disposal and
1 incinerator operation.
I 1t Is probable, the commissioners
announced after yesterday morning $
meeting, that the city would erect and
operate the incinerator and the gar
bage collecting system in the city.
The report which the two city OF
ficials submitted to the commission
was as follows:
Tulsa. Okla, September Is. 1916:
To the Honorable Mayor and Beard
Of Commissioners city of Tulsa'
| Gentlemen: We, as your committee
desire To make report upon the IN
ycs,igations made by us upon sanitary
matters, tie handling and disposine
OF garbage, lncineration and reduction
plants etc. Our recommendations are
arrived at from the Information
n.thered during our recent trip east
10 Chicago and other cities of the
middle west.
First. The greatest menace "a
healtt il urconnccted or outside
toilets and we suggest that every
house in the city where there are
sewer and water lines be compelled
to make con>tion at once; that the
sewer and wafer lines be extended &c
new districts and connections be ma ue
MS fast as possible; that no building
permits be issued In districts where
sewers and water are In unless eNi'
dcnce ia furnished OF sanitary con-
nections when building Is to be com
ploted. outside toilets are all null
sances. not only that the offensive
odors premeatc the air for blocks, but
they furnish breeding places for files
(which in turn carry fllth and germs
to the unscrecned food supply. thu'
causing disease. Nearly all oui
sc,eened and unconnected territory.
While on this trip consultation wa'
had with Dr. George Bright Young
! who 4. with the United States PUBIC
health service. and who has been sem
by the government to Konsas C.!y
Mo. to assist and report on condi
tions there. He has been with this
service for years and was for fou'
wears health commissioner OF Chi
caCo. He says.
First: Connect with the sew
| ,ra ,pt snrncH tho houses
second Give the people pure
water.
Third Protect tho food and
milk supply.
These three things are most i'm
portant. ana following thom othel
IN nitarv problems can be worked ont