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tively 2, 8, 12 and 14 years. Two children and wife are convalescing. The probable source of infection is a small cellar 8x10, with no ventilation, floor wet and covered with fungoid growths; said cellar also contained a box of decayed vegetable matter, the only egress being a door from the outside of the house which had been closed all winter. They have vacated said house, which I ordered thoroughly fumigated, cellar to be cleansed and covered with chloride of lime; all carpets used in sick rooms to be burned; also, all furniture washed with a disinfectant solution. The house they now occupy I have quarantined and forbidden public funerals, should any more deaths occur. This, however, had been done by family physician.

13-INSPECTION AT CARDINGTON, DELAWARE COUNTY.

By ROBERT S. MAISON, Medical Inspector, on account of Piggeries.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Health:

May 15, 1895.

Sir: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from you May 14, 1895, I visited Cardington on May 15, and found the following conditions to exist:

offensive when the wind is from that direction." These people keep boarders in summer, and last fall when Mr. T. carted away the pig manure and spread it over his field preparatory to plowing it in, the boarders were not able to sit on the porches or leave windows open on account of the smell. By reference to the attached map you will see that they are about one-eighth mile from the piggeries, with a valley in between. The question with her is that unless smell is abated, she will lose her custom, and she is anxious to have said. smell abated before the boarding season opens. R———, store-keeper, living near Mr. W

I also saw Mr. R. P. who says that "smell

is terrible." He was one of twelve or thirteen to sign a complaint which was sent to you last fall, and he desires me to call your attention again to that complaint.

12--18-95

In view of that complaint being sent to you, I did not look for more complaints, but proceeded to inspect the piggeries which are on the property of W— WThis property is leased by L

& Son, who, with six others, maintain the piggeries. The names of the others, as near as I could get them, are, Dol. W

M

(partners), Mes

& CBy reference to map you will see that the piggeries are situated along Naylors run, which empties into Cobb's creek, just below. They are upon the hillside and I should say number over 1,000 pigs in about 200 pens. The condition of these pens and the ground surrounding them is extremely filthy. "About twenty loads of swill are fed to them daily, from West Philadelphia." I counted 422 pigs in 87 pens, and as high as thirteen to twenty pigs in one pen. It is the most filthy piggery I have seen. The board floors are even with the ground. Scarcely any pens have troughs in which to place the swill. In most of them the swill is thrown directly on the floors and mingles with the discharges, the floors being often covered with swill and manure. Where there are troughs most of them are so low and shallow that the pigs walk in them and scatter the swill. There is no suitable provision for cleaning the pens, as the droppings, swill and urine flow to the ground and are taken up from there. There are pools of filth and swill scattered over the ground and the whole side of the hill is filthy. To abate nuisance, it would be neces sary to entirely rebuild the pens, making the floors several feet from the ground. Proper feeding troughs should be made and a broad, flat trough should be made in front of pens into which contents of pens can be swept and removed twice a day. At the Cardington Mills office I was informed that several weeks ago there were a great many pigs lying dead around the pens and that one of the persons in the office threatened to complain and that the pigs were then buried. I saw one litter of dead pigs lying on a heap of manure. My suggestion is that the piggery proprietors be given thirty days to remedy the nuisance, and if they neglect to do so to take the matter into court and have them removed.

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This little village of Cardington consists of the houses of the employes of the mill-a few hundred people. Around the village, farm houses and boarding places are scattered over the country. The place is not incorporated and is situated on the little hills which slope toward Cobbs creek and Naylor's run. Surface drainage only, which on account of fewness of inhabitants, does not seem offensive. Well water is used. No prevalent diseases.