MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 218, 20 June 1872, Page 3

MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

A MEETING of the members comprising

the Auckland Board of Health was held on Wednesday at noon, in the Justices’ private room at he Police Court. It was deemed inconvenient for the reporters of the Press to be present; but Mr Cunningham, who acts as Secretary to the Board, has kindly placed us in possession of the minutes of the proceedings, as also wlret passed in discussion. 'lucre were pre t —Captain W. C. Dakly, in the chair, with Messrs H. S. McKellar, P. A. Philips (Mayor), and Dr Philson, Health Officer. A deputation appointed on Monday to wait on the Superintendent stated that, having had an interview with his Honor, they concluded they possessed no executive power until a vessel was placed in quarantine ; but they' could recommend such measures to be carried out as they might deem necessary'. It was then resolved l>y r the members of the Board that the Harbourmaster be recommended to carry out the regulations strictly in accordance with the quarantine rules. It was further recommended that the Chief Postmaster of Auckland be asked to fumigate the mails arriving from San Francisco. Further, it was resolved that the following telegram be sent to the Colonial Secretary in reply' to certain interrogatories which had been forwarded by him on the previous day. It was that the usual questions had been put to the captain of the Nebraska as to whether there was or had been any sickness on the passage ; or whether smallpox was known to prevail at California at or immediately' before the time he left. The Mayor said that the members of the City’ Council, with himself, would only be too willing, and were indeed very anxious to co-operate with the Board of Health or any other constituted body to adopt any preventive or curative measures for the safety of the city' and the province. He might state that the occupants of the boarding-house where the infected man had been staying had since then been vaccinated. The members of the Board manifested an earnest desire to do all that lay within their power; and, if, under emergency, even to exceed their powers in taking such precautionary measures as would stay the progress of the disease. A feeling appeared to exist that an unnecessary alarm had been raised, and that, with due caution, active vigilance, and strict inquiries from every vessel arriving from infected ports and beyond seas, there was very little to fear from variola. — D. S. Cross.