May 10.- Rear Parker st., near Boston & Albany R. R., Ward XV. 41* Chapman st. 3 Chapman place -3, 5, and 7 **Babcock court 29."— Rear 82 * West Cedar street 12. — 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 Tucker place June 1.-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 Marble street -1* Barnard place 1, 2, 3, 5, 15, 27, 29, 35, 43, 52 and 54 Alger st. 19.-696, 696, 700, 702, 706 and 708 Dorchester ave. 5.-7 and 9 Greenwich st. 9.44 Fleet st. Mindoro 10. — 3*, 5*, 7* Mindoro st. 16. 24. 27. Sept. 1. C. D. C. D. C. D. Ward VI. VI. “XIV. .. XII. . XII. 66 IX. • XV. " XV. " XII. ❝ XIV. II. • XV. “ XV. VI. III. .. VII. I. .. XIII. II. IV. 14. 65 Salem st. 2+2*, 248*, 250 *, 884, 886, 888 and 890 Sec ". XIV. Two new urinals have been erected during the year; one of these for men, which was placed upon the vegetable-market-grounds between India street and Atlantic avenue, is a wooden building, 21 ft. by 11 ft., provided with eight water-closets and seven urinals. The other, for men also, placed on the vegetable-market grounds at the corner of Mercantile and Clinton streets, is an iron building, 14 ft. by 10 ft., and provided with six water-closets and four urinals. It has, on good authority, been represented at this office that at least three thousand workingmen in the vicinity of these urinals were without any privy accommodations whatever, until last season. Some delay in the erection of others has been occasioned on finding that the City Council had not authority to permit the placing of urinals in the public streets and ways, and upon the Public Garden. Therefore, to protect the one already placed upon the Public Garden, and to obtain authority to place others in the streets, application was made to the Legislature the past winter, and the following act secured: [CHAP. 65.] AN ACT relating to Public Urinals in the City of Boston. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: — SECTION 1. The City of Boston, by vote of its City Council, shall have power to erect and maintain urinals for public use in any street, way, court, public square, common, or common lands in said city, and likewise in the Public Garden, so called, lying to the eastward of Arlington street, therein. And any owner of land who suffers any injury in his property by reason of the construction of any urinal as aforesaid, may, at any time within one year after the construction is commenced, apply to the Superior Court for Suffolk County for assessment of his damages by a jury, and have his damages ascertained in the manner provided where land is taken in laying out highways. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 22, 1876.] As soon as proper locations along some of the main thoroughfares of the city can be determined upon, permission will be asked of the City Council to erect small ones, which will be of moderate cost, and will supply the conveniences for more universal use. Our narrow streets and sidewalks do not admit of an easy location of urinals, like many other cities, and we shall be able to overcome the difficulty in only a few of the broader avenues. Those which have been built upon the Common and Public Garden have been open during the entire year, and have been kept in the most orderly and neat manner by the attendants. Their appreciation by the public has met the most sanguine expectations. The same may be said of the other thirteen, which are smaller, and scattered over the city, and are all kept in a cleanly condition by one man, whose duty is to visit each one several times daily. NIGHT SOIL. The removal of night soil has been conducted, wherever practicable, by the odorless excavating process. We believe it has given general satisfaction, and that the work has been well done by the contractor. The number of orders received. for emptying vaults was 3,864. GREEN HIDES, HORNS, ETC. As there is a number of places in the city where green or green-salted hides are cured or stored, in some instances giving out an offensive odor, and as very little care seemed to be taken by certain persons engaged in this business so to conduct it as to give no offence, we thought it necessary that a regulation should be made upon the subject, and on the 7th of May we made and published the following order: Ordered, That from the first day of April to the first day of November, no green hides or horns shall be cured, stored, or be suffered to remain within the limits of the city, without a written permit from the Board of Health. This order to take effect on the thirty-first inst. We desired to fix such conditions upon the conduct of the business as would prevent offensive odors, having in view at the same time the extent of the business, and the rights and privileges of those engaged in it; we therefore issued permits reading as follows: Permission is hereby given to to store or cure green or green-salted hides or skins in building numbered street, in the city of Boston, until otherwise ordered. Provided, That such hides or skins are stored in no other place than the basement of the building; that the floor of the basement shall be made perfectly tight and impervious to liquids, with a proper pitch so that all liquids and filth shall readily escape from the floor into a suitable drain, the floors to be kept at all times in a neat and cleanly condition and so disinfected that no offensive odors shall arise therefrom; that no such hides or skins shall at any time be suffered to remain in or upon any street, place or sidewalk; that the horns shall be immediately removed and placed in brine. Any violation of the above provisions will be sufficient cause for the revocation of this permit. The following extract from the old records of the town of Boston is interesting as a matter of history. On the 22d of March, 1799, the Board of Health of the town of Boston, of which Paul Revere was chairman, and John W. Folsom secretary, then sitting in the Senate Chamber of the Old State House, adopted the following among other regulations: Storing or keeping after the first day of May and until the first day of December in each year, within the town of Boston, any untanned hides, subjects them to seizure unless removed within twenty-four hours after notice being given by the Board; and notice is accordingly hereby given by them. STABLE MANURE. The ordinance upon this subject has been changed since the establishment of this Board, giving us the power to grant permits for the removal of manure at other times than those originally fixed. We have tried to protect the rights of the people to cleanliness of the streets, and to pure and wholesome air, as well as we could, consistently with the desire of those having stable manure on hand to get rid of it as soon as possible and in the least offensive manner. In some places the stables are so constructed that there is no other place to load except upon the sidewalk. In all these cases, and in these only, we have allowed the wagons to be loaded upon the sidewalk, provided only that the work should be done before six o'clock in the morning. The general regulation made and published by us is as follows: REGULATION. BOSTON, May 10, 1875. Ordered, That no manure shall be removed except in a tight canvascovered vehicle, with the covering so secured to the sides and ends of the vehicle as to prevent the manure from being dropped or left in any street or way of the city in process of removal, and not loaded in or upon any street, lane, alley or passage-way, or upon or across any sidewalk. Any violation of the foregoing order will subject the offender to prosecution. In order better to detect those who were removing manure without a license and without taking pains to prevent its dropping upon the streets, we issued the following permit: Permission is hereby given to to remove Stable Manure on condition only that he complies with the following requirements: 1. Such manure shall at no time be loaded in or upon any street, lane, alley or passage-way, nor upon or across any sidewalk. 2. It shall be removed in a tight, canvas-covered vehicle, with the covering at all times so secured to the sides and ends of the vehicle, while moving with a load within the city limits, as actually to prevent the contents from dropping. 3. The number of this license shall be painted in figures, at least two inches in size, in some conspicuous position upon the vehicle driven. Any violation of any one of the above requirements will revoke this license, and subject the offender to prosecution. The number of permits issued was 541. FISH PEDDLERS, ETC. It has been the custom to require those who peddle fish, and those who remove bones, grease and refuse matter from the city, to report personally once every month at some convenient place; each person being required to bring his vehicle with him for reinspection. There were, however, too many who, having once obtained a license to peddle, etc., for a year, never reported for inspection, and the almost invariable excuse being that the horse of each delinquent had died on or about the day when the inspection should have been made, the better to accomplish our end, and, further, to prevent this alarming mortality (?) among the horses, we thought it best to license for a month only, and renew the license to all who reported and whose horses survived. Accordingly we issued a permit for the removal of grease, etc., as follows: |