BOARD OF HEALTH.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1470, 1 November 1878, Page 3

BOARD OF HEALTH.

The Board of Health held its usual meeting on the adjournment of the Drainage Board. Present —Messrs Ross (chairman), Duncan, Hobbs, and Tancred. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. inspkctoe's ebpobt.

I beg to report as follows 1. As requested by the Board, Mr Puschell has famished a sketch plan of the locality in which he is desirous to establish his fellmongery business.

2. Owing to complaint of nuisance arising from deposit of night soil on land situate on Sandhills road, I have inspected in the neighbourhood, and found that night soil had been so deposited, ami had been used as manure. I cautioned the person implicated that he would be ! espomible for any nuisance that might arise f om this practice. 3. The ditch on Ollivier’s road has been cleaned out. I still detect a stench from that portion near the Perry road. I would recommend that the deep portion which allows the deposit of sludge should be filled up to the level of the ordinary side drains. 4 I have already reported that the nuisance arising from the premises of the candle manufacturer is mateiially abated by the action taken by the B ard on former complaints, yet complaints continue to be made that a nuisance still pxists. I have referred the. persons complaining io clause 75 of Act, which points out that any previous action of the Board will not affect the right of any individual complainant to his remedy at law 5. The Sydenham Borough Council is preparing for a scaveng ring service for the borough; there are already several premises from which night soil is regula-ly removed, and cesspits arc being gradually abolished, 6. I have b en encaged inspecting from house to house in Bingsland. Wm. Pearce, Chief Inspector of Nuisances.

The Board considered the report clause by clause. In clause 1, the Board resolved to give permission under clause 76 of the Public Health Act, to Mr Puschell to commence business as a fellmonger and tanner on the eite mentioned by him, but reserved at the same lime, the right of taking any action thought proper against him if any l, ‘-—as created. Clauses 2,4, 5, and 6 nuisance ... -‘•VaetorVi and the conwere considered sa,.. * fnv the Bideration of clause 3 was ™ tho

present. . ~ A communication was received from Mr Garrick, forwarding the now . by-law, and recommending that after being formally passed by the Board and the common seal affixed, publicity should be given to it by publication in tho Now Zealand Gazette and public newspapers. It was resolved to exeiso that portion of the bye law referring to keeping pigs within one hundred feet of a street or road, and then the bye law so amended was passed as originally drafted. It was then ordered to be sealed, and the following resolution was passed — “ That by-law for preventing the keeping of »wjae within one hundred foeb of a dwelling-

house in the Christchurch Drainage District be adopted, and that the secretary be instructed to take the necessary steps to advertise the same,”

The secretary reported two cases of scarlet fever and two cases of scarlatina. Accounts to the amount of £4l 13s 4d were passed for payment, and the Board adjourned.