BOARD OF HEALTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6099, 4 June 1881, Page 5

BOARD OF HEALTH.

A 3IEETIXG of the Local Board of Health of the city of Auckland was held yesterday: ; in -.- the Council Chambers,—His Worship the Mayor presiding; • -..":'.'■ .''...-.. Public Urinals, &c— Mr. Goldie, officer wider the Public Heaßh Act, reported under ■ tue i^thjidctiori'.of . the Act re conveniences accpmmbdiition, and appended two ; le%rsof complaint on,the subject, iHe recommsiidedthat more urinal accommodation : One ,complaint Svas from B. : • complaining, of the nuisance . in the theatre passage, "Victoria-street, from ...-. want of a turin'al.',,; It was not possible •, lor them to continue to occupythe premises : '.. -.JJuess thei'matter.was at'once attended to, as ,J-their health was Verir much affected. The

>' second complaint "was from Messrs. E.' and ;. A. Isaacs, calling..-.attention to a continual; L ij' ntusance being perpetrated in their doorway' -.■■.,..-•' The correspondence was referredPinance and General 'Purposes.Com-* yj' CSty Council. , ' < ■ ' -WPHyaipß^ii^isEAaES.^—The health offii ' ,: ; ■Mpofted. that,: being ! amount": of i ■-'■■s* i ° d the ..city, ; *. «e;Jiad"geri a to ten medical' gentle-"- *■ '■ - -.-•■-. n■■ favour hira'wTth tKc -■Mmes «ncl addresses- from timeto'time, of .-:' tiUents they may attending suffering ¥■ ..••;;&an contagious or. infectious diseases. ■' 1% .:, .oulbcen rumoured.r.thatchHdren were sent Wpablic schools, from Rouses where scarlai; ..rfrns, and typhpidrfever existed, and that '•*; ■;"■ ■-. . ereaffaniount •ofsickness prevailed nowwithin : ', v the pity. ' Hej,w;as therefore desirous of asce'r- ; . t faining the correctness of siich. reports. ;He ; !v'Ppended three repprta>:eceiyed: /His letter • .'£ : r f on , : : .f—. "it .consider the vlii' •"■<>£ ■ th&'isity-goodl andiain' inclined to 4 j jn-ink there isimbre sickness in the suburbs in 'the city-'at the : present titit;" %'a -.- n 'rtply ;to the circular, Dr. Tenrianfc rev';>; ori e casie of scarlatina in. Koliebyy?; street; 'Wine one - case of typhus ■Scfe itfy* in. Sale-street, .Freeman's' Bay, WiL.^ithe-house next Soppett's bone mill; \9: ,-,Pr; . Stocbivell reported verbally i :i t^i'&? e :'~oi typhoid fever (the patient in Elliott-street. •' He con--I& a case for the hospital. The conthis report and correspondence -if:- Was deferred; "• ■ T : ." ..; ; ; - : .-, ■. : : The meeting # eQ tommied/ '' '" *'' ''