1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

120 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
If,
as was intimated, the cupidity of the sheriff contributed
to bring about this particularly reprehensible state of affairs
it is liigh time that the community should rise in indignant
protest and demand a more humanized and enlightened
service from its officials. If the Government officials are
alone responsible, then it is a pity that the much vaunted
"strong arm of the law" cannot reach the offender and correct
an abuse that would lead to the indictment of the perpetrator
in many parts of the country, even if the victims
were nothing but brutes.
I am informed that the ordinary
condition of the jail is creditable to the person in charge.
The sanitary conveniences of the court-house are not a
credit to tlie county.
CHARLOTTE.
Water-works owned by a company. Supply taken from
two small streams in the outskirts of the city. Water-shed
of one is reasonably free from danger of pollution, that of
the other is open to some suspicion. The supply becoines
quite turbid at times from surface washings in spite of precautions
taken to reme.dy the difficulty by separation and
sedimentation. A filtration plant would seem to be the
best and perhaps the only solution of the question of a
satisfactory water supply for this city.
The condition here,
however, is no worse than it is in several other cities of the
State. The city is well sewered, but some of the outlets
should be extended a few hundred feet to deep water, in
order to abate a nuisance that exists at these outfalls.
The close proximity to the city of the streams into which
the sewers discharge will recjuire, at no distant day, the
construction of two intercepting sewers, in order that the
sewage may be carried to a sufficiently remote point before
its final discharge. The system is not provided with manholes
to any extent, or with automatic fiush-tanks, and in