Show SANITARY MATTERS A correspondents ideas on some of j alie needs of our city eddron HERALD the sanitary condition of if ogden cl cily 0 jy ja such as raises very serious apprehensions hen the propertied properties on our main business block pay a large amount of ot taxes as compared with the regj residential portion of the city why should not the city give certain returns for this money as other cities do scavengers should be constantly employed to sweep up the ammonia soaked garbage manure and dust on main blain street and daily to gather up and often cart away rubbish and refuse from the backyards back yards of butcher tarrants tau rants and all other business housea houses what little that has been done lately is good but it is only temporary tempe there should be a permanent system of scavenging i n g ibe fhe year 1886 baa has proven so f far r lo 10 be unusually forward with the hot season what if it is true that it is 9 gieg to be a year of epidemics let cholera typhoid fever smallpox small emall pox nox diphtheria or any other dangerous daug crous contagious or infectious disease break out and you will see se lime and chloride of lime in in every gutter on every heap of rubbish in every aley alleyway way here liere where an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure ono sharp determined and independent man appointed as inspector of nuisances nuisances is I 1 worth a hundred sanitary committees depending for office on the vote ot the people some of whom they may be afraid to offend let us have an inspector of nuisances a man who will and impartially perform his duty and there will be a shaking not of dry bones but of wet filthy ones privies pig pens gutters of wash houses etc etc need looking after hn a all an no not de above trove danger to the community from the opium fumed dens of the leprous s mongolians Mongo lians away with them und and their opium their soapsuds soap suds and their peculiar stink to some chinese quarters ers before virulent disease breaks 8 out and an infuriated furia ted mob cleanses the aegean stables by fire we know not what may happen the ear J is probably an epidemic year and the great perihelion of the planeta planets may have come some little to do with it though not as much as is claimed by enthusiasts let the city coun cil move in time and thus sustain j their hitherto great reputation for energy and ju judicious J di action respectfully X P arx cr |