Show IE VILf CITY COT DUMP HEALTH Complaints of Residents in i n Western Part of City Disregarded Disregarded Disregarded by Commissioner STENCH IS SICKENING GARBAGE AND FILTH DELIBERATELY DELIBERATELY DELIBERATELY DUMPED NEAR BY Chicago has han a locality called caned Packing town A trip through this locality Is said to be he a liberal education to ones olfactory olfactory olfactory tory nerves Salt Lake has a locality that has never been lIeen launched Into the limelight but which in n the matter of foul and nauseating ing odors has a claim to public atten attention attentIon attention tion equal to that of famous smell factory Complaints have been heen filed flIed with the hoard of or health during the last week that conditions existing between Ninth and Tenth West Vest streets and Third and Fourth 1 South streets are almost unspeakable But Health M j R It Stewart as usual has bas ignored the taxpayers and their welfare In tho the loci locality lit y thus bounded there are areno areno I no buildings s From east to west runs a aravine aravine l I ravine twelve or fifteen en feet deep This ravine has been utilized by the city as a I for all sorts of filth ref refuse re use ise and garbage I The air ah for blocks around is heavy heay with the foul odors that rise rist and are carried by the wind from this sinkhole The health of residents in the vicinity is threatened Complaints without number have been filed with the board of health but the dumping of huge of garbage continues daily Last week the dry refuse was Ignited and for two days the district immediately surrounding the was cov covered covered covered ered with a pall hall of suffocating vile smelling ing smoke that nauseated men and women and children and that sapped their vital vitality vitality ity and power poorer to throw off disease Neighbors Say Its Unbearable The stench is unbearable at times said a woman living on West Vest Third South street where the front window of her home opens on the which is not more than yards ards distant At times we are almost driven n out of the neighborhood It is a treat to go to sonic some other part of the city and breathe fresh air for a few hours At night it is almost impossible to sleep The fumes and odors are almost unbearable In the mornings we get up with headaches and with out mouths and throats feeling as ilS though we had slept at a sewer entry The land does not belong to the city but to an individual I understand that thata a large lur e number of cottages are to be built on this in a short time There is an old dead musty smell in inthe inthe the th air all the th time We Ve do not often get a breath of fresh air The city does rot pot seem to care whether our health is protected or not I believe we have a il aright aright right to live and enjoy health and believe we should be protected from such an out outrage outrage outrage rage as this It is not right nor just that ua i should be he maintained where people have to live and where chil children children dren have to be reared I Forced to Go Away I Isome The dump caught fire last week and some of us were forced to leave the neigh neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood to get a few hours release from the stench of the smoke Sometimes the wind blows In this direction the sour fer fermenting fermenting fermenting smell and it nauseates us We Ye Yel tan an l do nothing about it Neighbors Nt have complained to the hoard board of health but nothing has been done The conditions at the dumping ground are bad It seems inconceivable that such conditions could exist within the city cit and that a pestilence would not creak tak rak out The gully in the tract indicated is be being being ing mg filled with wires and tin cans greasy and filthy filth refuse and slop pails palls lie in the sun heaps of refuse from saloons and res restaurants restaurants restaurants ferment in the heat and piles plies of vegetables vegetable tops decayed pota potatoes potatoes toes totS and other filth of a character throw off foul odors Swarms of flies buzz and feast on the filth and then fly away to nearby resi rest residences residences dences where the they carry germs and filth On a hot day when the sun beats down on the festering heap haze rises loaded with pith Ith unspeakable odors Residents in the vicinity are discussing the advisability of holding an indignation meeting to protest against the continuance continuance continuance ance of this menace to their health and ando andI o I ask the removal of or Dr Stewart |