Show AN OPEN LETTER to the he hon the president and city council of salt lake city gentlemen the ordinance drafted by your health officer la in relation to cesspools ces spools if adopted would work great hardship to the taxpayers taxpayer of this ci city not alone financially but would tin an fn my opinion not be conducive to the health of the people A watertight water tight vessel for a sewer receptacle COPt acle constructed according to ape and to meet the requirements of a family of eight or ton ten persons person would need have hare a capacity of about two thousand gallons the sewage and drainage from a dwelling accommodating commo dating a family of amount to at least fifty gallons per day and at the end of thirty days day 1600 1500 gallons lonait and said ordinance would corn com pel del the of this when the re was three parts full this cesspool could not be constructed according to specifications for lem im than and although the doctor says aya nothing about a vent pipe this would be a necessity and to give any practical ventilation would require a pipe twelve inches in diameter joined into the cover ot of this airtight air tight filth dugand should extend upwards upward fl at least twenty feet BO an as to discharge its it cont contents outa or gasses above the roofs of ordinary dwellings dwelling ii this would bean be an addition a al cost of about 60 50 making an outlay of first cost the accumulating filth would need to be removed every thirty days and the probable cost of such removal judging from past experience with scavengers would be not lose less than 10 for each time and for the twelve months would woul J aggregate making a cost coat of for the luxury of such a cesspool for one year another very important alon would be the fact that the sewer ewer laterals literals late rals are being constantly extended find and the ordinance on selete is in 0 so o framed that it compels the property owners ownen to make immediate connection therewith when said sewer pipe is laid in front of and abutting on the promises premises then the property owner Is compelled to pay 3 a front foot for the extension of the sewer pipe and as ai the property owners and workingmen of this city are generally so 10 unfortunate an aa to own about feet frontage to their homes home here on this one ene item they are forced to raise for this tax then the ordin ordinance anci demands demand fl that you immediately connect with the sewer and the plumber bill for doing chisin this may ay more la in all for connections then then of course you must abandon the costly filth J jug us in the rear of yur a vou would no longer with wish to use ire it nor would you be permitted to do doo so it to la needless needle to may lay that the wage earner ano and day laborer and nine tenths tenth of salt lake men belong to the above classes claa sei cannot possibly meet these lieal large lare expenses in addition to their heavy taxes for city county and school chool purposes A hermetically sealed bottle of sewer ewer filth with conneCt connecting lUff waste pipes extending from the bathroom the water closet the bedrooms and kitchen sink ink al have two open ends endo the one in this thia ease conveying sawas ewas into the sealed jug and the other ends end conveying sewer gas a deadly poison back into the dwelling and sleeping gle r rooms of the family A cesspool is ie bad enough when its con tents can be discharge into the porous earth and be largely absorbed by the sand and gravel in our subsoil sub soil toll formation which afford ready absorb ment of the fluid portion and also a portion of the gaies gases and some of the remaining gases games are rendered inert and harmless by being in contact with tile the soil in the sealed receptacle contemplated by your health officer no such ion could possibly take place nay it la is intended that none such be permitted the doctor may claim that the danger dangar lies in ID this sewage matter being thus thrown and absorbed into the soil kil but let us remember that in the earth cesspool the 4 absorption takes place from six to eighteen feet below the surface of the ground and that in the system of nf dry ry earth closets a of dry earth securing a covering of vault filth to the depth of three or four inches will deo deodorize derize the mass maas and hold the gases entirely inert then we may safely conclude that the earth cesspool cess pool now in use it if properly constructed ted to la superior au and eater to the community first from a sanitary standpoint and secondly will not be aboh a crusher financially as a compared bof the one recommended by the doctor and we demuet must take into consideration that the sewer districts now designated will embrace all the moat popular parts of the city and that the dwellings outside the sewer districts are in possession of sufficient land surrounding such each dwelling on every side that no apprehension need be felt sato ag to an abundance of room for the absorption needed from celia poole belonging to those more scattered and isolated dwell ings inga again it if this ordin ince recommended by the doctor be adopted then the eity city must immediately cause to be at least four W water ter tight tanks these tanks should bould have a capacity of not i less leea than 1600 1500 gallons each and be not let on wheels wheel with large hose pipe and pump to be manned by not lew less than four stout men maim in order to remove in the most moat cleanly and expeditious ious manner possible pos aible the contents of these filth bottles bottle these sewer transportation wagons constructed constructed as above could riot not be turn furn is caned 4 ad tor for leu lea than about 1000 and here would compel the outlay of SIM an other for the four wagons ceded and as the city officials have already declared that their funds are exhaust ad d and that all improvements improvement pertaining to water to sowers sewers and and so forth must be made by a special tax levied upon the property owneta and aad a lion lien upon such property until sueh special tax is paid workingmen and owners of homes do you like the picture another and more important con sidera tiou oa these filth jugs would have to be emptied their contents uncovered and stirred up in pumping from coal cess pool to tank and as this kind of work to la generally done in the night time the density of the atmosphere would prevent the noisome vapors from arising allpin lato into the upper deep and so the nig night 11 air laden with disease germs would be conveyed through our open windows lato into our sleeping Ble roona rooms and there them distribute disease and the needs of death to occupants thereof remember Be member gentlemen improve men tare good but the overworked over worked and overtaxed over taxed professional men and the wage earners and laborers do not desire improvements that do not improve the health of the city and that would in many cases cabes compel them to their homes homeland and sell gell the same game to meet the demands demanda of the contemplated additional taxes very respectfully and truly your obedient servant Berva at B YOUNG M D |