BOARD OF HEALTH.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1506, 13 December 1878, Page 3

BOARD OF HEALTH.

Friday, December 13. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Local Board of Health was hold at noon to-day. Present—Messrs Tancred (in the chair), Hobbs, Harman, and Duncan. inspector’s report. 1. I beg to report that 1 am continuing the inspection from house to house in the Heathcote district, and have written to some owners of promises, whore 1 'omul some privy cesspools in foul condition, and have, in accordance with instruction , recommended the use of closet pans iu place of existing cesspools. 2. I have inspected the fellmongeries at Woolston, and found same in fair condition, excepting tho premises of Mr Bell, Cemetery road ; but upon re-visiting these premises I found tho notice to abate the game had been complied with. 3. I beg to report a nuisance under clause 50 of the Act, arising from a number of pigs kept on premises of Mr Smith, near the Halfway House, Ferry road. 1 cannot suggest any means whereby such a number of pigs can be kept on the promises in question without causing a nuisance, therefore ask the Board’s authority for requesting their removal. In the same neighborhood I have given notices to abate nuisances arising Horn offensive privy cesspools. It was in this neighborhood that several esses of typhoid fever followed upon the filling in of the Ferry road drain. 4. I have caused closet pans to be provided on premises situate in High street, Knightstown. 5. The nuisance arising from tho foul state of the ditch on the east side of Wilson’s road is not yet abated. lam informed by the clerk to the Hcathcote Road Hoard that by arrangement with the Sydeuh im Borough Council, tho latter body have the entire supervision of that road. It has been pointed cut to me that the drainage from the railway depends upon the ditch in question. Wh, Pearce, Chief Inspector of .Nuisances.

December 13th, 1878. With regard to the section in reference to the pigs, the Nuisanct s said tome sixty or seventy wmre kept on half an aero of ground. The neighborhood was thickly populated.

The inspector was instructed to carry out the 58th and following clauses, and to give the necessary notice to abate the nuisance, under clause 59.

In reference to the nuisance complained of in the sth clause, it was resolved to write to Drainage Board and tho Sydenham Borough Council, and request their immediate attention to it.

The report was then adopted. A letter was read from a resident of Courtenay road district, notifying the death of a young woman in that district from typhoid fever.

It was resolved to forward the communication to the proper authorities. The medical officer reported that since the last meeting there had been three cases of typhoid fever, one of scarlet fever, and one of diphtheria. This was all the business.