The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-09
REP AIRS TO JAIL
ARE RECOMMENDED
Report Received by County Commits
sioners From DR.. Bickerstaff
and Sheriff Ellis.

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At the meeting of the county COM
mlssioners yesterday morning, a re-
port on the county Jail from DR.. j. H
Bickerstaff and Sheriff Cary Ellis was
received, showing that at the present
time the jail is not so equipped as to
meet the requirements from a sanitary
standpoint.
Inc recommendations to the COM
mlssloners as embraced in the report
showed the need of a furnace special
~ built for boiling clothing. as pre-
caution against the carrying of dis
ease germs, and a room on the third
fioor next to the clinic to be furnished
with equipment for disinfecting and
Ifumigating.
~ was also recommended that the
elevator be put IN repair as at the
present time it is out of use.
Plumbing. toilets, lavatories and
shower baths We're all reported as
needing overhauling, and a hot wa
ter system for showers was recon-
mended
Insides of the cells were found to
need painting; blower for motors to
take care of ventilation need mend
ing.
The county physician and sheriff
also asked that one dozen suits of I'M
derwear or suitable clothing of some
kind be furnished for use of prisoners
while their clothing is being fumigat-
ed; the purchase of 25 mattresses and
fifty covers were also among the rec
concentrations. Benches and cuspi-
doris We're recommended for the cor
ridor.
Resolutions and Reports.
H. r. Reese, county attorney, was
authorized to prepare an act to be
submitted to Congressman Smithwick
and Senator Trammell, giving this
county authority to build a bridge
across Escambia river at Century.
A resolution was adopted, providing
that bids be called for from the three
local banks. American, Citizens and
Peoples and the Banking, Saving and
Trust Company, as depository for the
money realized from the sale of the
bonds. Bids will be called for and the
money deposited with the highest bid
der.
On motion of Commissioner Solder
lind it was also moved that the bonds
of the trustees for the Escambia
county road paving bonds be also in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000. The
trustees are T. L. Cant. Thomas A.
Johnson and Herbert Caro-.
A communication was received from
the Pensac cola Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil in which they asked to meet tho
commissioners at an early date for the
purpose of discussing matters of i'm
portance. The commissioners will
meet the committee from the council
next Tuesday.
A petition from the residents of
Precinct 1, asking for hard road be-
ginning at the present dipping vat and
extending in an easterly direction to
the u. S. Army reservation, was re-
ceived and Commissioners Candy and
Soderlind were appointed to make In
yestigations
The board inspected the ballot boxes
recently repaired and re-painted for
the city, and found them satisfactory
A bond to carry firearms was APP
proved for Ed Stafford
A resolution was passed in which
the county commissioners extended its
thanks to j. d. Smith, Judge H B.
Phillips, members of the state road
department, the Escambia County
Good Roads Committee, and others, for
assistance given in securing federal
aid at the last meeting of the state
board.