The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

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THE CITY BOARD OF HEALTH.
Yesterday the committee assembled in Guildhall.
Mr. Barkley in ths chtiir. Lf_rd Mayor az.d 0
City Solicitor were present.
The committee passed a resolution that Mr. Simon,
the officer of health, should dbily pror?u•.e tibdiar
statements of the cholera cases in the area Civ
unions.

Mr. Sriktom presented a report of the progress he had
made in carrytng out the arrangements to which he
had referred on Tuesday, with regard to the addi-
tional medical aid in cases of cholera and diarrhoea,
and the place of reception for patients.
A great deal of conversation took place upon the
subject of the conduct of the City of London Union,
in refusing to prepare an hospital for the reception of
cholera patients, and upon the formidable differences
of opinion which appeared to exist between the
medical authorities in some districts.

Mr. WIRE said, he regretted that unavoidable
absence from town prevented his regular attendance
at the meetings of the committee. lie had read the
correspondence between the committee, the City Union,
and the General Board of Health, and he felt that
the committee would not discharge their duty to the
Corporation if they permitted such a state of circum-
stances to continue. He proposed that they should
at once seek an interview with the General Board of
Health, and learn what it was their determination
to do ; and, unless prompt and vigorous exertions
were at once put in motion by that body to execute
and enforce the observance of the provisions of the
law, he hoped the committee would put in force the
same admirable arrangements which in 1832 were
attended with such beneficial results. While the
Corporation relied upon its own powers and resources,
and acted in unison with the ward and parochial
authorities, everything went on well. Now that they
were acting in submission to central authority their
efforts appeared to be paralysed.
The CITY SOLICITOR said the authority conferred
upon the committee of the Common Council extended
guardians, who,
only to affording supplementary aid to the boards of
under the superintending authority
and control of the General Board of Health, were
bound to provide hospitals, places of refuge, and a
medical staff, to meet every exigency, and he felt he
could not recommend to the committee to share with
these bodies the responsibility which the law had
cast upon them without the special sanction of the
Common Council.
Mr. WIRE—Then I move, " That immediate ap-
plication be made to the Lord Mayor to convene a
meeting of the Common Council to sanction the
adoption of the same proceedings as those adopted in
1832, to be carried out with additional vigour in
proportion to the increased emergency." He was far
from being an alarmist, but he thought that instead
of creating an unreasonable ;panic it would diminish
the apprehensions of the public within the city if
they knew that preparations for meeting the calamity
were actively made.
At this moment the LORD MAYOR entered the
committee•room, and having heard of Mr. Wire's
proposal signified his willingness to grant the Court
on a very early day, if such were the wish of the
committee. He was confident the Corporation would
not allow any consideration of expense to stand in the
way of the discharge •of the duty which Mr. Wire
seemed to think rested upon them to enlarge the
powers of the committee to make the more extensive
arrangements which the officer of health had recom-
mended.

The committee then adopted the suggestion of Mr.
Wire, and his Lordship appointed Friday next as the
day of meeting on the subject. They also agreed to
a proposition to the efnct that Mr. Barkley (the
chairman of the committee), Mr. Barnard, and Mr.
Wire do wait as a deputation upon the Genezal
Board of Health, and that the Lord Mayor and Mr.
Simon, the medical officer of the City, and the City
Solicitor be requested to accompany the deputation
on the subject of the City arrangements to-morrow,
(this day).
The City architect informed the committee that he
would be able to have a tent or marquee hospital ready
on the site of the late Fleet Prison by Saturday next,
for the reception of cholera patients.
Adjourned.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll-
DENTr."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven-
tion.