QUARANTINE.
A meeting of the local Board of Health, comprising Messrs. J. M. Clark aud F. E. Compton, was held yesterday, and the following business transacted : —ln response to a letter from the Postmaster, it was resolved to instruct the pilots to grant every facility for the immediate landing of mails at the quarantine station from vessels ordered thither; also, that vessels arriving more than twelve days out from Sydney should be anchored in the Rangitoto Channel until visited by the Health Officer. That the Arawata be quarantined twelve days from the time of leaving Sydney. The Health Officer deemed it advisable that not less than twelve days' detention should be imposed, as the epidemic was increasing in Sydney. As it had been alleged that newspapers were taken from vessels in quarantine, Mr. Brophy, Superintendent of Quarantine, was instructed to take measures to prevent communication in any shape. The Board is still a body without legal authority. On the 22ud ultimo a communication from the Government was received that the Mayor's letter would receive due consideration, and regulations would be framed for the guidance of the Board as required by the Act, but nothing has since been heard of the matter. The Board now only consists of two gentlemen. Captain Burgess having resigned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 1651, 4 August 1881, Page 5
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