New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-18
CHARTER COMMISSION.

meeting of the Charter Commission was held yes
terday, Mr. Froment in the chair. The printing OF
various City Charters, at cost not to exceed s@3S,
was ordered. The Committee on permanent Organiza-
ton were instructed to ascertain what vacancies there
will be from designations, and to report at the next
meeting, Communications received from the
City Inspector and from the CTOtOn Department. Inc
former taken up with considerations OF reforms
and alterations in the sanitary system OF the cty'
Mr.. Deavan Gays that the Board Of Health, from tue
LIST of January last down to tire present day. has not
held single meeting to consider the sanitary needs OF
the city, and complains of the complicated roundabout
machinery of the Board and Commissioners OF Healn
few of whose members capable OF approaching
the duties of their Office He believes that the frat
groundwork Of reform is to besOw upon some other
body differently constituted all power over the sanl
tary affairs of the city, The powers Of the dispensary
system may be extended TO meet most, If not all,
the sanitary requirements of the day. The report
continues:
The benefits which this city is daily receiving the aid
FIVE Disp aries distributed throughout the city numbered
patients during the year l8CO 3S235 1850 the whole popu
aton and half the cys annual illness The proportion
foreign native Dispensy patients has been high three
quarters quarter but during the last three years It has
stood In the proportion of5 to 81 Not less than four nunoId
end fifty Iaentsan Of ninety 20 each Dpensayap
Ply daily aud receive immediate ad ana attention ron use
n'ttuions Il estimated That the per eeage OF aels vas
seyentyeVen hndredh Of per cent These Dispenae
while they constitute the most important branch OF cur Pu3c
sanitary system are rarely mentioned ~ connection WIN s
system 50 for the seton Of the Common Council or me
concerned
they efficient They chiefly supported by voluntary con-
buons annual appropriations from tbs Common Council gnd
occasional small contributions from the State In their or2nza
ou add ntens police they are sue's P9'e,ng me gene
confidence Of the people, they presided aad their al
fairs directed by best citizens, professional a. wen a. non
professional the whole labor Is gstnious add equally 20 ther
ditibution of medicines Their Importance the city in
cunAry be estimated by the saeIneDt Of e" c
Were the destitute sick to whom they minister TO be com
PEELED 10 throng Hospitals and Aims Houses and the rate OF
expenses Of these Institutions remain the same as now or $o
per capita the amour. thrown upon the city would pc eh4l
Surprising that fourth Of the number renewed Oy the
D.pensaries were thrown upon the Hospitals and AsHones
would annual expenditure OF quarter noh
dollars But the advantages Of these Institutions In the preserve
toL a. the general health Of the city are oil character pecu
ar their own, derived from the very basis OF their orsanza
The Dspenssy from his frequent visits to me
AbOdes destitute the earliest to discover &c
presence epidemic The diseases whose most
apprehended-the pidemcs otyphus not yellow fever
among the qusor and wehedness Of the abodes where the
DispensGry Physician T. called visit and Is opportunities OF
observation often pecsde those Of other guardians OF the public
health These prsc,to- we are tther onca any lOea
are invariably aduae Of Medical CJezes and nearly AL OF
them have enjoyed the advantages OF Hospital pFacce In
word they tilted In all respects for the aduous and espon
bic duties to which they dedicate their abo Among the
who fall under their observation many OF the migrate
~ population Of the y who pair 10 the country TO do har
.smas Marshes aeward 10 the city and to the Dis
with 20 undergo treatment Tor then
cure Aud is by this experience among the humber classes
that intimate knowledge Of the prevalence OF every disease OF
malignant epidemic character Is constantly prouS nome
to their observation. -.
Here then IN these Dspensary Institutions found at
material for the basis Of enlarged Sanitary Improvement and
efficient Sanitary Police always hand always watchu and
obserysnt Of the health Of the city The organization OF these
institutions Is admirable that would not venture 20 interfere
with in the slightest degree but while scertsn that within
present sphere Of usefulness Il Is without rivalry tits sug
this sphere mny be extended TO give eaer
responsibility and power by connecting IN more DEFINITE
city propose then that Board Of Health be formed to
consist Of the