New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11
THE PUBLIC HEALTH
COMMISSIONERS OF HEALTH.

The Board Of Health met at the usual time and
Mace Yesterday Isaac o. Barker, President, in the
chair. The following business was transacted:
Brig Milton from Port Prince with logwood arrived 9Th
inst allowed proceed 10 the city after an ooserSaion
Of sight days and a thorough publication " -,
Bak Al ns from G~If ,o . %n hides and I out Of tn.
CITY may then proceed to the wharf after being ce'ed
Brs n Msrg from MarscabO with fc coffee and hides,
arrived 9Th inst To proceed to the city after ventaon hdes
schooner Trowbdge arrived from Gonayes 9th inst with
logwood ard mahogany Detained five days. 49,,
the 9Th inst requests permit up BROOKLYN, or
into the stream within 500 yards of the city and discharge the
Bs Caroline from A.pnws with several of chAsre'
Y wo ca Of The br r. Dyer the Health Officer reported
that the prayer the petitioner to be allowed stream permit OF
COO wards should granted The Board did not concur and
the vessel ordered to lighter her cargo from where she no"
Petition Of Fsate Bird denied and the Board refused to
consider sny nore applications from said vessel.
schr Samuel was granted the privilege Of proceeding t" the
Atlantic Dock Brooklyn, TO take in giSno for Baltimore
The report Of the Health Officer the schr Yorktown
be yellow fever but having lain at Quarantine some time
and undergone thorough of cleansing he deems safe
10 allow her proceed the city and so recommends
Brig Buen Ao from Barcelona via Lagay wishes stream
permit discharge cargo on lighters within 500 yards OF ,ne
sailing had be placed in charge OF her on leaving La
motion TO allow the ship H. Gliddon to come up to
the CITY Several members expressed their belief that
Kermit was given tonsr 500 hides the schooner
Yorktown Quarantine, lighters TO be put immediately on
Erie Railroad BARGE the hides not to be weighed or
IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION
To the Mayor Co~mon' Of Health Of the City Of Ne'o'
GrsTLtMrs: The Health Officer to whom referred the
pttion and Of the bark LOUISA asking or
the privilege proceeding within three hundred yards OF me
cry and there to dehaIee her cargo Pors ids ns sn
molasse- with all hands well board from Cardenas IN
and ordered TO discharge fifteen DAYS after her arrival
The has complied with the orders TO DISCHARGE and
choIase for over thirty days She petitions for stream
permit that that she come within 800 yards OF the CITY,
and there discharge he cargo on lighters.
twill be By honorable Board that some ten
twelve days since and FOX two or three days ~
several vessels from suspicious ports and in disabled eond
ton allowed to proceed into the stream within $40 yards
OF M city nd s h Of The
ierdcied BY at least two strong reasons First man from
ened during process of dchsrsns the cargo and sent
Marine Hospital with yellow fever, and second WA
pcous infected in the neghborhood of Governors
Island which place reported that yellow fever ws
If good Judgment in your honorable body 10 refuse
the the practice Of giving permits ten days
ago. for above assigned be safe discreet
10 the practice the present tme tor should be
York has suffered mostly fro the tropc scouse
been during the month of sepe.ber and it not pob bic
suspicious infected ports that the city whole might
suffer largely by an act on our part to relieve the owners Of
nas s sff % bi nt Te sson ~
refer. these vessels At the present time should
dealing the OIL
the petitioner today shall be literally flooded with
rails TO which cannot consistently turn deaf
To allow all the vessels in question: which living In
Quarantine to proceed into the stream and there discharge
their within three hundred yards Of the
would be to changing the Quarantine anchorage the
vicinity Of Castle Garden
The undersigned therefore, however much may Cypress
the pocket OF the eonenees Of the cargo feels compelled to
recommend that the prayer Of the petitioner and al similar
petitions for the present be denied Respectfully submitted
RICHARD Ii. THOMPSON Health Officer.
Qrdr0nftre Sept 10. 1856.
The Board cOncurred in the above unanimously and
then adjourned till to-day.
EFFECT OF THE QUARANTINE LAWS.
In most instances the complaints by shippers en-
gagged in the West India trade, with regard to the
Quarantine restrictions Of this port doubt made
without thought the part Of the of cargoes
except in far relates to their em0luments In
the early part Of the Summer, before the stringent
laws were passed by the Board of Health cases Oc.
cured in which great fears were entertained for the
health Of our citizens, and or two cases of the
much dreaded fever reported. true regard for
the welfare of dcnsey populated city rendered the
strictness afeward absolutely necessary to prevent
the repetition Of the Of the year 1872 BUSH
ness must have been suspended, and again would the
green grass have sprung up III our busiest thorough
fares. Those who engage in trade that connects this
poit with those known to be subject to the yellow
sbould make the probable detention Of their yes
sells part Of their calculations, and the expenses of
ligherng should be duly considered to hope for profit
antine is expensive, still il is equally true that the
euations imposed ship-owners have prevented
ase, and proved that have least some officials
who sincerely interested in the welfare Of the city,
RROOKIyN pnARn OE HEALTH