The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

LOCAL HOLED OF HEALTH.

A meeting of the Board took alms oa Tuesday lest,
when then were promot Meyer in the ebeir. and
Hews. K Hoo•mll, J. Jeflord, T. Lou. H. Coy, J.
.. C. Largo.be, Jobs lionasell, B. Tooker, C. Teeter,
J. Tiouplimaan, W. H. kooky, T. Wainwright, H. N.
Col, sad J. Williams.
Tbe meotireg was eonveoed to oonvider a sommanimo
tioe resolved from tine Privy Cooneil .s to ths hem
mesas of arrw.ting the progress e, olera in tbs. event
. .

a it. appearing
.i;
.11a rt.Z.nntry. The annatounieatioa

hawing 'hiss rod, •long dbwituisou ensued, and the plan
proiweed lest yam of haying a wooden building at Pio
ha-bour, in an Maimed spot, for the reception of any
pianism mining than from RUO4A who had been
attacked by the plague, but bathed% carried out, was re.
canddered with migration to its being used for cholera
patients. An estimato of the *spews of mach • bund-
les, 30 foet long 17 18 feet wide, bad b.ito sent In loot
year by Mr. Gunlick, who cialeoliated it would rpm CM,
and law mat a plan of the building, which was now
produced.
Mr. Wits.raus mid that MI them woo. prielbility of
the cholera coating into die conairy, and of its Ming
brought by seamen to this port, the quatiou wan, what
would they d. in *Sher sus. Hs did not think the
building at the harbour. pmewg otattur, they could
meet one in a week or fortnight, and it was not worth
white to rush into •oliense. He thought the Sanitary
Committee should look to the stole of the town.

-Mr. :1-177/0-111)- -rega—ri is; -8-a-nit-a-ry Corn-
al't's, but the time wan approsehing Own mon&
would be arriving at the Harbour from the Bane,
which might be infested, be thought therefore mine
imicted boiiding at the harbour woe meemary.
Mr. H. N. COI thought be Governmest would en-
force thit quarantine Liwa aal if required, they ought
to do so. . .

-111r.—Tittit sits mid they were not likely to have any
Tenets from the Baltic for a aonth, the cholera had not
appeared there yet.
Yr. B. Com considered if any ihipe entered the port
which were itifected, it would bo lanseceary to move the
persons from the skip, sod where were they to be
taken?
Ti.. Ilaroe mid be had intended calling • meeting of
the Sanitary Committee if Val meeting badn't oesarred ;
it bad ecit met, he believed, sines April. 11163.
Me J. Floorisat themes& it any cases of *holma
occerred they should be at ones Isolated. sod said what
the cholera •pprared is 1832, be had charge of eLolera
patients night and day. As moms as any fresh cam
occurred, the doctor' I. the lows met together, end
couselled, and by &beading to each cams promptly,
laolming IL, patient.. am meth as possible, pre-
vented the cholera frown spreading further.
no MATO& reed • statement of the deaths le the
town during the last quarter, abash reached • total of 77.
Tim deetlerme was 321. the 1000 Os the quarter. The
greater number of the deaths were of very young
Widths°. Some converastioe ensued with referents to
the subject, and it was mentioned tbas in Liverpool.
where the average of deaths were 401. the 1000,1. had
lately eatount.d to 50.
Mr. K. Tow said it had increased everywhere
lately. . .

Mr. H. N. Cox rad tha number of deaths la tbo
tons awing An hot lye porn, unonoted altnyotber to
961, of ohm& only 45 owe from tato, . 416 of tb•
diotlss

being of chlldrm medic u.s yams of age.
Hr. JITTOILD maid with reference to M. Sommer,
remarks about the Madera in 1839, be remembered that
time, and also recollected when the abolera was lit tbe
ottonM7, in 1849. Tbe lirst cam which oecurned in the
borough, was that of • seaman of • vessel at the Har-
bour, whom be, with Dr. Hay, (mind ia a stole of
The". on that 000W011, got in. captain to
take Me mewl to tea main with lb* men on board, for
him to ham • better Manes of neovery, and to protect
the lows. Waitaki the dimes so« into it. country,
they would not he safe; for if no weaselo brought in
from foreign parts, they might from the North of
Ragland.
Mr. H. N. Cog mid be thought it most important to
attend to their town; ciewpools ought to be exciptitd.
sed other things looked after. If anything occurred at
the harbour Mist could be attended to this.

A lengthy oneverottion took place War-The nthjeet of
now_owole, and
Hr. WILLIAMS said they had given iastroctioe•
sod over gots to the tretor. sod he (Mr. Williams)
tboaht lw had ougleeted tips. He ought to report to
the Board the n 0.... of thaw permute who oegleeted hie
0/1/OFS. He should issue *otiose to the puttee, and
senwoon than if not attended to then.

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Mr. It. Tocrisa ti,ortght it s feet were sauessosed the
reit scald atteed to the matter.

--16.-iiiit;ZT:4:-..1761;;;;;;cor. (h. Nu...) if say
formal settee had me gives to mit persons to empty
their eemmede. sad be NO they had.
Kr. C. Isodm.l asked him if they were written
Dotter w• verke I, end be said written resie.

—Kr. WILL' Ann veld at every meeting there ought to
be • report preemited to them of this. primes who had
had nooses served on the.; Mere had bees m one
reputed to the /lona Mee he ked bees • member 01 11.
In mem to a qtrektos from Kr. Wainwright,
Kr. F. W. 017•DaY said the murder wee the person
she Board looked to, not the owner. The ocempter
must arrange the matter Kneel( with the owner.
Yr. Howie= mid Kim had hem great remieesees
on the part of the Impeder ; hi. rase was • most Is-
partial one, and enleas be properly carried out the
duties, the tows would revert to Hs original state, for
everything J•peeded ea him. The Board passed mole-
tem 'ad left them in his band., as tbsY oauld not Ito
round themselves. There shosld be a report front the
inspector at every nuetleg whether say intimates
exaelee, what state they were in, and why WAY bad not
been attended to. He proposed s moieties " That the
Isepookor of Nuisances he required to thoroughly visit
the town arid email*. lb. etedasees that existed, and
report Mamie the next quarterly =redo' in Jim." In
the ineentirse Um &misery Ommittes Gould met as
day, and take inunediate Mews they Idea Wall
aseasemy.
This reaolutioe not being mended fell to the gravid,
The throe thought the committee should he gelled
Mom her t 0... what they could devise.
The sabi.et of whitewashing booms and the Mate of
the water le the tows woe thee Assumes&

not mii-ba any treablo
shoat it, but the comatithre had already mad. a report,
and if flea oaf, agaia they coaki oaly 11 .0 IS more.
The prover thing to do was to *afore* the reeowaseado•
%lone they bad wade.
11. I. 800 sena, wibed to kaow V the impala°,
had ham ordered to carry oat the reeolatioae of the
Board, w.II ma the blame roofed with theas of not
aiming them out; if be bad bees ordered the blame
reared with him
Kr. GUMMY referred, and found he bad bees ordered
to earry than out.
After a log. dimowealos., Yr. WiLiWni maid dry bad
hero galled togalhae to ormakier about the oboist% sad
bad we way wide of tie out.

Mr. Hoax mu. tbea proper!. sal Kr. C. Tucarra
'wooded. end it sal serried. ' That the wiseinnateation
trans the cka, the pei., Council be reigned to the
geaitary Committee if the Board with a mom* that
they will tate .wit stew as they nay drew netensery
with mord to the general state el the borowth."

Ilr. & Cog said whit regard to mammies in the to.
Hwy existed both in doors sad oat, sad 'hostel be
Inspested. He thought this westing quite ammeter*
to gins the inspector Met, makes to imam,' the dwellings
at woe, sad deemed it highly neeemary there should be
• be 'ding erected at the bubotte, whlsh would be
• safeguard. It meld be built and takes down aged',
plimeg ...wpm., sad est up when waisted. It was
raw Vied by other inemben that it might be deetrable
to meet the building near the town instead ol et the
harbour.
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Cul proposed, Mr. IL TOCIIIM theiceded, end it
MY serried uthebnintelp, "That a building shall be
soestrested for treatise at WS bsrbour or till•Wilef• ia
tholornilify wile the plea furbished by Mr. Conga to
tie Committee ithpateted ob the 9th of May, 1188, sod
that the teaming members of lb. Board he • sornanittee
far lb* porpthe of obtsinisi teuden for the oesstruP
Om end ereettos of the building, sad asking lb* sears-
eery erreagerneste is roon•Wes therewith
W. &rein, L Osz, sad if. Z. Hosseell.*
TM meting esperated shortly after.