Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-02
PIG QUESTION
TROUBLES BOARD
Health Commissioners Are In
Quandary on Move to Be
Taken Here

Have the pigs returned to make
their habitat in Perth Amboy? Or
have they always managed to stay
here by. moving from place to place
within the city?
Such were the questions the Board
Of Health pondered last night and
even after long debate full solution
to the riddle was not at hand.
And even then the board could not
make up its collective mind as to what
should be done about It, Therefore
direct action was carried over" un-
til the health offer should have look
ed up the ordinances, regulations or
resolutions relating to the keeping of
swine.
The argument started over COM
plants that have been received that
pigs and cows have been kept for days
at time at the slaughter house and
at the adjoining "stock yard" The
proprietors of the respective places
appeared before the board last nighr
and averred that pigs were not kept
there. The stye. they said, was built
last year when 1t was permissible to
keep boars, sows. squealers. milk cows,
calves. yearlings, steers and bulls.
Goats" were not mentioned.
DR.. Thompson read from the state
laws relating to the municipal regula-
houses. But that didn't solve it. An
effort was then made to flnd~the res
olution made last year. 1t could not
be found.
Meanwhile the two men whose
places had been complained of leaned
over the railing and kept up con-
tinual repartee of questions and de-
malls with Mr.. Dilts and Mr.. Dalton.
as to whether cows and pigs had been
kept at their places over night. Mr..
Dalton said he visited the place last
week and that he saw COW shut in
the slaughter house at the last thing
at night, and that when he returned
in the morning the COW was still there.
The stock yard keeper said that he
never" kept pigs there anly some
times" For time 1t looked as
though the board really was going to
do something decisive. But then the
question of their legal right came up
and that action went fiat.
At the request of the board DR.. Silk,
president, told the men that they must
not keep stock there over night and
that If they persisted in making the
place stock farm the board would
take action against them"
Mr.. Dilts then recalled that no per-
mits had. been issued this>year in COM
pliance with the new resolution and
that accordingly every person keeping
pigs and goats was violating the law.
To prosecute or not to prosecute
That was not the only question. There
was the question of who, and how
much. and when, to prosecute. Three
motions were made by Commissioner
Dilts to the effect that the regula-
tions be strictly enforced. None of the
motions carried. Other members CALI
ed attention to the fact that the cost
of foods is higher now than during the
war. DIR. Silk said that there was a
misunderstanding as to what consti-
tuted a nuisance and what was unsan-
itary. Many people in the city live in
unsanitary conditions and do not know
enough to consider them a nuisance,
he said. DIR. Thompson called atten-
tion to the fact that some persons in
the city make living from livestock
And SO the board agreed to carry it
over to the next meeting when the
health officer is expected to read them
the law.