Show NECESSITY FOR CARE exceptions have been taken to ou our r criticism published on monday on n portions of the draft of a proposed health ordinance prepared under the auspices of the chamber of commerce the NEWS article showed to our thinking thatcher that certain conspicuous and important provisions are impracticable because we are not willing to swallow with closed eyes the prescription of the framers of the health ordinance we are characterized in so many words word s as opposed to the adoption of needed sanitary measures for this city it does not appear that we are u uder any obligation to pronounce a thing as good that in our judgment is the reverse and do not intend doing it anyway any way it is urged that the measure should be accepted for the reason that it was framed by able physicians it surely will not be claimed that because a man is 18 a capable MD he presses the qualifications of a legislator or that because he be an can construct a prescript that he be can forA formulate a law it is granted however that he be is likely to be able to make many valuable suggestions in relation to sanitation but he be is liable to mahke others that are useless because impracticable some people seem to imagine from the positions they assume that the merit of a measure depends on who produces it instead of its ita own intrinsic value we have no personal reflections to cast upon the formulators odthe proposed ordinance hut but we do question the value of the thing itself or rather portions of it there being doubtless a great deal of good in it our only object in treating upon the proposed measure is to the public weal it is desirable that the city council should scan the elaborate paper with great care car that they may not by III advised work place themselves and the people in an undesirable tion |