Stop This Outrage.

New York, 1895

Too many nuisances are coming into this town at the west end of it. It is being made a dumping ground of, and the nuisance breeders are coming here because they are no longer tolerated in the towns of Kings county since those towns have become wards of the City of Brooklyn. The mistake is in permitting these nuisance breeders to get a foothold here. The health laws seem to be at fault. No person should be allowed to establish any questionable business within the town without first obtaining a permit from the Board of Health. From the nature of the business proposed the board could readily say whether or not it was likely to become a nuisance, and it could be shut out and kept out at the start. That the filth of other places should be brought into this town and dumped, even under the best circumstances, is an outrage on the community and a damage to property. The Health Board cannot go too far, or make laws too stringent in such matters. Once these fellows got in it is troublesome and costly to put them out. The only safe way is not to let them in at all.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 4.