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through an appointment as sanitary engineer, to examine and make 

 recommendations m wet places in the different boroughs of which 

 complaints were n 1e. Sanitary Superintendent Dr. Chas. F. Roberts 

 planned that the p icedure as provided for in the charter (Sec. 121 5, 

 et seq.) be followe This requires the making by the engineer of a 

 map of the section to be condemned, covering its extent, its plan of 

 drainage, etc., engineering recommendation for relief of same, an ex- 

 amination by the Sanitary Superintendent, and his endorsement of the 

 plans, if approved, coupled with his statement of the danger to life and 

 health. As required, one copy of the map is filed in each case with the 

 Department of Health, one with the County Clerk and one with the 

 President of the Borough, on whom the Department of Health issues 

 an order to carry out the proposed work, and who is required to do so 

 forthwith. This has been done in a number of instances, covering three 

 of the boroughs. The instance which affects the largest number of 

 persons, viz., that of the 



CONEY ISLAND CREEK SECTION, IS CITED TO ILLUS- 

 TRATE THE PROCEDURE 



taken in all cases in other boroughs : 



On Printed Form. 



DF^ • HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Borough of Brooklyn. 



t of Inspection in reference to premises being that 



sland Creek section between the bridge of the Old 



he west and the trestle of the Long Island Railroad 



;ach Branch) on the east, and being all the terri- 



tOij .'red by said creek and its tributaries between said 



points. 



To the Board of Health: 



I, Henry Clay Weeks, holding the position of a Sanitary Engineer 

 and Inspector in the Department of Health of the City of New York, 

 do report, that on the 30th day of September, 1903, and many times pre- 

 viously from April last, I personally examined and carefully inspected 

 the premises situated as above described, and found the facts as follows : 

 Said premises consist of a marsh and marshy lands, of which various 

 persons, corporations and the city are owners, and in violation of the 

 Sanitary Code, were found in a condition dangerous to life and 

 detrimental to health, for the following reasons, viz. : That, by the 

 action of the tide, this area is kept saturated so that the surface and 

 other water stand upon many parts of same periodically or continu- 

 ously, thereby forming breeding places of the anopheles or malaria 

 bearing mosquito and others in vast numbers ; that the waters become 

 foul and offensive to smell ; that many parts of the section and stream 

 are used for domestic and other refuse, adding to the evils mentioned. 



I respectfully recommend to accomplish the drainage of the said 

 easterly portion of the Coney Island Creek marshes that the creek be 



