Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-24


 houses for workers" advised Francis Mahoney chief field agent of the cor poration at the October meeting of the Norwich Chamber of Commerce on | Wednesday evening in the Chamber of | Commerce building.
 Mir. Mahoney had been invited to i speak to the Chamber of Commerce 1 on the possibility of an allotment be- | ing made here. He told the 40 men l present at the meeting that it wasn't | merely a question of money. It was | question of conservation. See what | you can do with the houses you've | got. Rent rooms. Let families that have unoccupied rooms at their homes 1 give over a room or two to help win l the war. Make one house do the work of two, see how old houses can be fixed up, and you can get three times as much room as you could build houses for. Scientifically fill up your town to its utmost capacity and then ask for housing money.
 He advised that a survey and regis try ought to be made and said that the government would send people here to do it. It's a question of conserva- tion and easing up on the labor mar ket too, if room can be found without having to build houses. The govern mert will not permit congestion in or der to provide living accon1rno dationsf and it don't want people to lower their standards or to feel that they are losing caste by taking reemers, hut it has been found In other places that there is often room for many l more people in town than the resi- dents themselves think. AS an exam i pie he mentioned Perth Amboy, which i he said claimed it was filled to the l limit when 1t applied for share of housing money; but a government survey disclosed accommodations for l 560 people.
 1 Vice President Henry G. Peck. who presided at the meeting in the ab- l sence of President F. W. Cary, who 1 was sick at home told the members l that they had better get out Of their minds any visions of 800 or 500 houses i being built here, or an industrial | building which had been mentioned earlier in the meeting, for if the gov 1 ernment ever made an investigation ] they would ask why it was that on | some streets seven or eight houses were standing empty or why families Of two people were living in and heat 1 ing a house of eight or ten rooms which he said he had reason to know was the case in more than one in | stance.
 
 of a census having been taken by let | ter carriers of vacant tenements. which resulted in finding none on many of the routes
 Ex- Mayor T. C. Murphy asked MT
 Mahoney if it were not the case that mansions at Newport were standing empty while Newport had been given an allotment Of housing money.
 Assistant Works Manager G. B. Brainard of the Marlin Rockwell cor
 poration was asked to say what the experience of the company here was as
 to the housing situation. and said that
 the company was finding difficulty in
 taking care of small families. Men
 of that character are not applying for
 work here any more. The local fac ,, tory has lost lot of them and will
 lose more because place can be found
 for such families to live. The com
 pany wants to double the production
 here and bring a number of depart
 ments here from New Haven. It can
 get the foremen to come, but not the men for the departments. He thought a survey of local conditions seemed
 to be the thing to be done.
 On motion of Shepard B. Palmer il was voted that the president should : appoint a committee to consider this matter and also one member for ar
 advisory board such as Mr. Mahoney had recommended.
 : At the opening of the meeting, after | Secretary H. R. Branche had read his report covering July, August and Sep tember, Frank J. King made an enter taining report of attending the Atlantic Deeper Waterways convention fol } several days in September at Boston Dr, H. C. Cody, U s. A. who is ii charge of the New London sanitarl ! district, with headquarters at New | London, spoke in outline of what til,
 federal service wants to have don, 0 along health lines in Norwich for tn s protection of soldiers, sailors and mu n nitions workers. The work particular | ly covers Norwich New London an, : the coast towns in this county wher : shipbuilding is going on.
 q There are two objects. first, the pro S lection Of health of military men ,ln, a munitions workers, and second. t c demonstrate to the people themselve
 the value of improved sanitary condi $ tionS. The work covers milk and wa q ter supply, disposal of sewage, gar Il hage disposal, inspection of restau r. rants, ice cream and refreshment par ,t lors Already a sanitary engineer ha h been at work in Norwich. making a 5, exhaustive report on water supply an 70 ] ulSeGSeS. le Deppt 0 of Norwich and New London are get = ting a lot more than milk in the mil
 they get. We aim to get a better mi
 supply.
 e Dr. Cody spoke particularly of wlla
 the city was doing for the protectio
 of health and said he was to meet to morrow with the mayor and q com
 nlittee of the common council regard
 ing certain health administration fea
 lures that he wants to see introduced
 When the work once gets under wa!
 ii. is going to improve the city a whol
 lot, said Dr. Cody, and hardly cost tll city a cent more than it used to- H
 wants the aid and cooperation Of th
 chamber Of commerce.
 ''Pasteurized milk the one safe com
 mercial milk" was the subject treate
 by A W. Burlington, U. S. -A.
 It is too expensive and adds to
 much to the daily work to be handle
 individually, but the way to do
 is by a central pasteurizing plan
 where milk can be bottled in clea
 safe sanitary way. After January
 the government decrees that a!i mil
 seid smust be Pasteurized for New LOT
 dor county use. or be certified {
 grade A milk. There are three way
 possibly, by farmers cooperative Q,
 ganization, by capital in the city, by capital not at all interested in u city The farmers will have a chant to decide this at a meeting to be he, next week.
 The speaker asked tho chamber commerce h show it's willingness cooperate with the farmers on th plan.
 In New London the proposition is 5000 or 12.000 quart proposition dai which would cost hO3t SE0 0i0 Hzi