BOARD OF HEALTH.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2058, 28 September 1880, Page 4

BOARD OF HEALTH.

This Board met at the conclusion of the Drainage Board meeting yesterday. Present— Mr Harman (chairman), Heajra Hobbs, White, Hall, and Bosb. A letter from the Town Clerk of Ohriatohurch w&a read, acknowledging receipt of the Board's letter of the 11th inst., and requesting the Board to delegate the powers of the Public Health Act to the City Council, as arranged in conference on the Ist and 22nd June last. The clerk of the Avon Road Board wrote atating that he wm directed to intimate that the Board deezcod it undesirable to make any alteration in the present arrangement of administering the Public Health Act. A discussion of a conversational character took 'placo 3B to how far the delegation should extend.

At the suggestion of the Chairman, a committee was appointed to bring up a report as to the powers to be delegated to the City Council under the Publio Health Act, euoh Committee to consist of Messrs K. S. S. Havman and J. V. Bobs. The medical officer wrote, stating that he had visited the gravel pits in Sydenham, and found that since the date of his last report, another large gravel pit in the neighborhood had been filled up in the same way. He recommended the abandonment of the practice. It was determined not to take any further action at the present time, as tho Sydenham inspector* and Mr Pearce, inspector under the Board, concurred in thn belief that the precautions taken by Mr Brightling were sufficient to prevent a nuisance. A letter was read from Mr Peter Delaney, applying for permission to establish a tannery on the New Brighton road. The inspector was instructed to inspeofc the site, and report at noxt meeting.