BOARD OF HEALTH.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1292, 10 May 1878, Page 3

BOARD OF HEALTH.

The Board of Health then sat, Mr Ross acting as chairman. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. medical oeeicee’s report. The Medical Officer's report was read and received. inspector’s report. The inspector’s report was read as follows ; The Chief Inspector of Nuisances reported: \ 1. I beg to report that I have visited the premises of Mr King, eaudlemakcr, Addington, and find the addition to his premises and plant in a forward state for commencing to render tallow in the m .nner suggested to him in my letter of the 25th nit. 2. I have laid Information against Mr S. Dennis, Hewitt’s road, for non-compliance with notice to abate a nuisance arising from pigs, so kept as to cause a nuisance. 3. I have written to the Avon Road Board, calling attention to the foul condition of the side drain on St. Albans road, and drains in Bingsland. 4. In consequence of the foul condition of the side channel in Station road, Addington, the Eiccarton Road Board have caused the channel to be deepened, which is not effecuuil in abating a nuisance caused by house-slops draining into it; the yards being very small, it would be very injudicious to throw house-slops into a hole, as is done in some cases where it is less objec tionablo. 5. I have collected some accounts for emptying closet pans in the Sydenham, Avon, and Riccarton districts ; in the cases referred to the services of the scavenger were urgently needed, and in many parts the necessity increases daily On the Crescent road, Avon district, the ground is s j wet that the people are complaining of the difficulty in burying the toil in their small gardens, and if continued I fear it wifi cause a serious nuisance in the neighborhood, and it is utterly impossible to do so in wet weather. 6. The tenants of Holmes’s cottages, Newtown, have paid their accounts for em; tying closet pans. The Board wifi remember these cottages were reported by the medical officer to have been visited by typhoid fever annually. I have not heard of any illness there this year, although all the cottages have been tenanted. 7. I have written to the owners of se tions of land, Springfield road, requesting them to clear out a laud drain on which their sections abut. I have been engaged inspecting house to house in the Avon district and at Addington. Wm. Pearce, Chief Inspector of Nuisances. The Medical Officer reported that nine cases of infectious disease were reported since April 26th. Sundry- accounts having been passed for payment, the meeting ad journed.