Local Board of Health.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3086, 8 January 1879, Page 2

Local Board of Health.

A meeting of the Local Board of Health was held this morning at the Council Chambers. Present—The Mayor (President), Messrs Ehrenfried, Price, Mennie, and Wilson. . ( The Town Clerk read the following letter from Dr. Payne : -r-V Thames, January 6th, 1879—The President Hhe Local Board of Health, Borough of Thames.—-Sir, —l hare to report, for the information of your Board, that in consequence of information gi?en m^ffkjpr. Eowbottom to the effect that he had'b«en attending a child of Mr Pulleine's suffering from scarlet fever, and a subsequent conversation with Mr Mason, I visited Mrs Pulleine's this afternoon, and found that four if the children had been attacked with the disease, which wtt now in itsi desquamative and (so far as infe'o* tion is concerned) most dangerous stage. I left instructions that the children were not to be allowed to mix with others on any account. There has been hitherto a great want of care in this particular, as is shown by the fact of their being at play on the beach with several other children during ,the time of my visit. The youngest child has not yet contrasted the diswase, neither are any . precautionary measures taken to guard it from contagion. —I have, &c, Mabtin'H. Paynb.''

Mr Ehren fried said he did not think they could do any more than isolate the house. He would more "that instructions be given to.the proper quarter to hare the house of Mr Pulleine isolated under the Public Health Act, and that the parents of the children affected be strongly advised to keep the infected children separate from the others. Mr Price seconded. Carried. Mr Mennie proposed, and Mr Wilson seconded, that Mr Mason, Health Officer, be instructed to see the foregoing resolution carried into effect. This was all the business. «