Show DISEASE GERMS BLOWN BY WIND Health and Street Departments Ig Ignore Ignore nore Dangerous Condition of Streets DOCTORS FEAR EPIDEMiC WORST SPOT IN ZION IS AT CITY AN AND COUNTY BUILDING Disease germs In companies battal battalIons battalions Ions and regiments are being blown through the streets of Zion at the rate of forty miles an hour and the street department is maki making g no movement at least any that is visible to the naked eye to clean up the rubbish filth and old snow which has been accumulating since midwinter and whIch accord according according ing to physicIans generates the germs The health department has made no move to rouse the street department to action A good Democrat told me this morn morning mornIng ing said W G Norrell clerk In the health department yesterday that the streets are as clean now as they ever are this time of year so if a good Democrat says that I guess The Her Herald aid ald kick Thus speaking Mr Norrell blew an another another other ring of smoke complacently to toward toward ward the ceiling Public Is Kicking Prom From one end of Salt Lake to the theother theother other a vigorous kick Is being regis register ter d at the condition of the streets Old residents say that since Brigham Young and the pioneers unfurled the American flag on Ensign eak In the streets of Salt Lake have never been in such a frIghtful condition at this time of year Physicians predIct an epidemic of sickness One of the worst spots in town is the corner of Fourth South and State streets at the city and county build building building ing Every day that he goes to work Street Commissioner J T T Raleigh has hasto hasto to wade through h an accumulation of mud and filth that would give a bac bacterIologist bacteriologist heart failure The slightest gust of raises from this accumulation lation a cloud of dust Payroll Is Heavy Meanwhile the payrolls of the street and health department are going mer merrily merrily rily on The payroll for Mr department for February exclusive of Mr own alan and that of his office force was 2640 This was for men and nineteen teams Thirteen of the teams are owned by the city The city administration recently in increased Increased creased the health department force by providing for an assistant commission commissioner er It is a known fact that neither Commissioner M R Stewart or Assist Assistant Assistant ant S G Paul spend two hours a day in the office of the health department and It is admitted that they have done nothing to rouse the flagging energies of Mr Raleigh and his department |