| Show I I I AX USOIGEsTEI MEVSDKp The proposed health ordinance S preparei and drafted under the au piece of the Chamber of Commerce is causing a great deal cf popular comment I is mostly ndverto to the measure Its prefatory nirt consisting of a verbose heraldic document I a study of lt elf I reminds one of the exclamation > elamnlon of the usher In a Shakes earian tragedy trag-edy Way there for his majesty c the king I characterizes existing ordinances on sanitation n frag V nenary and unsystematic The prologue t the pie proper tliusao tlclpjtes what the Intended oaf Inc already encounters I There will doubtless boa prejudice on tho part of many xgalnst the Ide innovation that will invade sweeping Innonton ta1 Inn every nwno premises and pat him t uoublo and expept hut after all how smillK thing I In the indirlJ ual care and how absilnely and nn voldably cs ouutl It i to any proper sanitary work As if t make I more Incomprehensible Incompre-hensible t the common reader I leaves robust UnuIUli nol exclaims a line qua non I a clear con cepUou of the orkto be accomplished accomp-lished Latin in medical prescrip ton may b tolerated because of the alleged necessity for physic b enveloped in mystery but no such plea can be put up In favor fa-vor of the iutroduction of deal language Into public documents presented for the con imption of the uncla Ical masts Indki < nsible condition would have been better understood than the latin phrase if itdotint look quite so learned I the Introduction was wordy what can b said In that regard about the proposed ordinance I occupied fifty pages of foolscap and its reading consumed Oreronu hour thus reminding one of the saying of Disraeli In reference to Mr Gladstone lieaconsfield said that the grand old man wax intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity I appears a if the framers of the reno re-no considered must have been somewhat affected with a similar species of Inebriety Its exceeding length i of itself an objection rvnerin i difficult of comprehension compre-hension In its numerous parts There I nothing fragmentary about that deft What we specially desife t draw attention to now t Its proposal in reference to the construction ol privy and barnyard vault especially especi-ally the former which it requires shall b constructed on every mans premises In relation t tile trouble and expense the framers say How small a thing i i In the individual case Tills U I fly and unstatesuiinlike talk as the measure would affect all the citizens t the poorest among them owning a home Let us etc how small a thing i would b for the i orer people to con truct such privy vaults a these required under the reposed ordinance or-dinance We understand that they should L In dimensions not less tau six feet deep and four by sU Ct t be of brick with stone floor the whole to b plastered with cement The brick work to b durable dur-able and Eatifactory should be laid up double and in cement Thus the walls including labor would cost J13ii The floor cither in steno figs or cement would cost 900 Cementing the interior of the vault o tiC to prevent any tendency to leakage would not b less than 51050 The excavation which > hould perhaps have been named < prba bn name t t would b itT5 These added together make a total of S These are not fancy figures but solid out obtained from a leading contractor and builder of this city Qf course the amount Is perhaps not reat In the eyes of profe onals Alio rake in fat fees but to the poor mm I i a large sum nnd hundreds would have to mortgage theirhomes in order t raise I The estimate of the framers about the insignificance of the amount reminds re-minds ono of a noted English lady of the aristocracy On being informed for that In a certain district many unemployed eople j wore per Hiin from starvation Ehe said It do not sec any reason fur such a condition things Before I would die of starvation I believe I would eat bread and cheese She was E ignorant cf the situation of the poor that she never imagined that they could not get at least these two common articles of food As to the aggregate cost of the ngnt tle vaults one can obtain a fair Idea of 1 by computing the number that would b needed by this tremendously tremend-ously sweeping proposed measure Taking the population at 40000 and assuming that It would require one vault t every six persons the total gould be 6000 the cost of which in round figures would b 450000 ir running close up t half a million lion dollars l the proposed barnyard barn-yard vaults which would number SlY one to every fifty of the people ts floured on and added tomo conception con-ception of the burden Bought to b ilaced upun the citizens by the framers and friends of this measure may b formed B IJestheinJIvIdual phase of the burJen If time and spare pried we would enter into the details of the enormous outlay of public fund that would 0 required t empty those vaults once a week In mm mer and every two weeks In winter win-ter > Only think of 0000 wkly vMts of the tank wagons In summer and 951 daily including Sundays We might say a good deal more on the subject but We will prefer t watt for a printed copy of the ordinance ordi-nance I is t b hoped however that the City Council do not intend to occupy the po HIon of an appendage to the Chaaiberof Commerceorany other body but will seek to pass only that kind of legislation that Ills been analyzed anti dlge tedand that will b for tie benefit of the people as a whole We are in favor of a comprehensive e and ttricUy enforced system of imitation and lee that ono more effective and incxpenive than that proposed bj the measure under consideration could be devised |
