City cleans streets as cholera scare rises in Pittsburg
The Highway Department drives a sweeping sanitation push with 375 workers in three days. City officials urge residents to cleanse cellars and yards, open a Bochshore plan with dump boats, and issue 50 000 circulars for extra measures as officers combat suspected cholera threats.
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Andrews
Pitteburg
McKnicht
Schenley Park
Paisley
Highland
Yellow Row
Second Avenue
Greenough Street
Webster Avenue
Washington Street
Junius Street
Thurston urges block committees to curb cholera spread
Pittsburg resident George H Thurston proposes forming block committees led by women to enforce sanitary rules and prevent cholera. He argues women are best suited for rapid, thorough house cleaning and urges city officials to support rather than hinder these voluntary groups. He cautions that cholera may enter the U S before full city sanitation is in place.
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Tioomfield
Hazelwood
Tioomfeld
Broomfield
Wazelwood
Public Works Department
Havelwood
Pittsburg
Superiotenders Uaisley
Eveh
George H. Thurston
Seaboard
United States
Cholers
ISM
Megieet
Suggestions to the Mayor on sewer sanitation and disease control
Colonel T J Roberts writes to Mayor Gourley with urgent tips for cities streets sewers and riverfront aims to curb filth and disease. He proposes lime plaster cement and fumigation plus a steam boat current method to cleanse Monongahela and Allegheny shores and urges quick action before an epidemic.
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Thomas P. Roberts
Gourley
Walton Station
Monongahele Harbor
Moorhead
Mononcahela
Allegheny
Wall
Jena
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