DAIRIES AND TYPHOID FEVER.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7357, 9 July 1889, Page 6

DAIRIES AND TYPHOID FEVER.

Atthemeetisgof the Sydenham Borough Council held last evening, the. Inspector of

ptoisances handed in a special report on *he premises of a dairyman (outside the who had been supplying milk to [Several houses la which cases of typhoid fever had broken out. He found that the

drainage from the premises was carried ?into a creek, from which the cows drank aat night. There-were also two cases of the in the milkman's house. h:- Cr T. E. Taylob said the Council should iit once put into force their powers as a ;Board of Health, so that the spread of the [disease might be checked, and that puri Teyors of milk who were culpably neglifitit might be punished. He moved — That the Sanitary Committee be in•etructed to at once take the necessary to enforce the regulations framed by toe Christchurch District Local Board of health, dated 21st February, 1882." '-i; Cγ. Booth seconded the motion, and indorsed the remarks of Cr. Taylor, ; urging that the matter should be attended [tito at once. - •-. Cγ. Bowden acknowledged that there were dairies that were in a bad state. The Sanitary Committee had taken certain Jfceps, and now it would be better to fdvise them further.

[./ Cγ. White did not think that the reguframed by the Drainage Board it was the Board of Healia could be enforced by the Council, but that fresh [regulations would have to be framed. Uγ. Jacques suggested that all suppliers milk should be licensed, so that those ho had dairies outside the district Could be got at, and that dairies Within the borough should be constructed to the satisfaction of the Council, or else they should be removed from the district. Gγ. Glbdhill was of opinion that one of the cases of typhoid fever mentioned did not arise from the dairy reported upon. JCr. Bowden said the resolution was not required, as the matter was now in the hands of the Sanitary Committee. pThe Mayor remarked that the common sghse of the Sanitary Committee would show them the necessity for immediate action. : "Tiie motion was lost on a division.