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[The Board of Health met]

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  • Title: [The Board of Health met]
  • Date: 15 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00782
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 15 July 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
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  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[The Board of Health met]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00782.xml (TEI)
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☞ The Board of Health met yesterday afternoon. The Health Officer reported a row of tenement houses in 21st street, as in a bad condition, and he was directed to proceed according to law and have the premises cleaned. On motion of Ald. Kalbfleisch1 all lightermen2 were prohibited from entering the city except to discharge their cargoes. The resolutions of the Common Council designating De Burg's3 superphosphate establishment, foot of Division avenue, and the varnish manufactory in the 8th ward as nuisances, were submitted by the Mayor. The subject was referred to a committee for report. The Board adjourned until Wednesday next.

Notes:

1. Martin Kalbfleisch (1804–1873) was a Brooklyn alderman from 1855–1861, and in May 1858 was elected president of the Brooklyn Common Council. He then served twice as mayor of Brooklyn: from 1862–1864 and again from 1867–1871. In 1863, he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. [back]

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