Water stagnating in the holes will
shortly add the peril of epidemic disease. Such a condition as that
now prevailing in this block, with its dense surrounding population,
would not be tolerated by your department for a single day if on
private property. It has lasted here many months.
"The property is owned by the city, having been taken for the
purposes of a park and left in this condition after the demolition
of the old buildings. The undersigned respectfully represents
that the city, in the proposed Mulberry Bend park, is at present
maintaining a nuisance, and that it is the duty of your honorable
Board to see to it that it is forthwith abolished, to which end
he prays that you will proceed at once with the enforcement of the
rules of your department prohibiting the maintaining of nuisances
within the city's limits."
If my complaint caused a smile in official quarters, it was
short-lived, except in the Sanitary Bureau, where I fancy it lurked.
For the Bend was under its windows. One whiff of it was enough to
determine the kind of report the health inspectors would have to
make when forced to act.
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