Compel All To Connect

COMPEL ALL TO CONNECT

With the Sewers Says Board of Health

DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE

Some Method for Doing It Must be Provided–Second Ward School Yard Must be Drained

The board of health has sent the following recommendations to the council:

To the Honorable the City Council of Ann Arbor:

Gentlemen:––The board of health be to make the following report and recommendations:

1. The committee appointed by your honorable body to co-operate with the medical profession has had two meetings and one extra meeting of a subcommittee. The committee is trying to formulate some feasible plan for a detention hospital, the plan to be submitted to you at an early date.

2. It is recommended that all people whose property is situated within the sewer district be compelled to make sewer connections. This will do away with cess-pools, vaults, etc., which are justifiable causes for a great number of complaints. It appears to us, after considerable deliberation, that the best interests of the city would emphatically demand this action and its enforcement.

3. Some system of garbage disposal should be installed. In cities of this size, methods of taking care of garbage in a thorough and satisfactory manner are in profitable employment. We would recommend that you take action soon relative to this important matter.

4. Your attention is called to the likelihood of the new brewery, that is about going tinto operation in the western part of the city, becoming a great source of contamination to the creek into which it seems to be draining its slops and sludge. This creek flows past a number of residences and along important streets for a long distance as an open sewer. Some adequate and immediate action in this matter must be taken, or, so soon as warm weather comes on, a great nuisance will be inflicted upon the part of the city through which the creek flows.

5. your attention is called to the fact that the Philip Bach school is without adequate sewage. Investigation shows the sanitary condition of the grounds at that school to be bad. It is a fact that scarlet fever in that district has been almost epidemic. There may be some connection between the threatened epidemic and the lack of adequate drainage.

Hoping the above recommendations will appeal to your judgement, we are

Respectfully yours,

NELSON GARLINGHOUSE,

President.

H. B. DODSLEY,

Inspector.

W. B. HINSDALE,

Health Officer.