The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-12
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.


strewn with Carcasses OF .DseJa AssSss
nals-Ths Remedy to be Applied Nm
port OF the Sanitary Committeo-TAe .
City Divided into Six Hospital Dis-
tricts-Debate ON tho Relative Merits u
Homeopathy and Allopathy 1n tho
Treatment OF Cholera, Sc.
The Board Of Health held their semi weekly meeting
yesterday afternoon President Schultz in the chair The
minutes Of the previous meeting were read and ap
proved.
The counsel Of the Board read the regard to the
powers of the Board to appropriate funds for the clean
ing Of streets otherwise provided for by contract
nom which appears that they possess the power TO
Quiste under the provisions Of section H. part Of the
hw creating the Board Of HEALTH to clean streets
and remove any distractions which they may declare
detrimental TO health.
On the question of their power to delegate the power
- officers of the Board the streets of Brooklyn
- be cleaned he also testified TO their right in the mat
ABATEMENT OF NUIsANcEs
The attorney presented his budget Of orders for the
statement of nuisances from s678 to 1850 inclusive
which entered.
DR.. CRANE remarked, in reference TO the dumping
grounds Brooklyn that the contractors are not pro-
vded with any regular designated place for deposng
- refuse and the consequence is that they avail them
selves Of tho most convenient place.
Dr. PARKER said that when they took place for that
purpose they should DO compelled to keep in proper
condition.
gentleman recently notified the Board that person
z East Twenty nnih street extensively engaged in
damaged cargoes and after cleansing the tea cooring
With Paris green The Boards inspector for the Fifth
psin had been entered, and the following from
his report which presented at the meeting Of the
Board Of Health this afternoon shows the result Of his
hvestigatons:-
Henry Joseph Jamesons business is that of buyine tea
Aamaged by shpwreck and by water at ares After
aaased appearance he puts it INTO the Market The
sa e II FR ' so ~ats n
and
sst rigid tests. took specimens aud tested them with the
Sad pbaSg
ia 81 of saSam ony he ass. Of ~,. "a.
&c fS sss "H .Hd @
lime In these inyesss.ions had the services Of Dr.
New York Medical cGsss consenns the
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entirely innocent
THE BARREN ISLAND NursANCEs
In regard to the Barren Island nusanoes Mr. SCHULTZ
Informed the Board that he had visited that place on
fncrday for the purpose Of investigating the matter He
nd that Swift the Brooklyn contractor, has tocrably
veil regulated dock on which the ofa Is deposited at
Mat place, which cannot be washed by the tide The
New York contractors had been driven from their former
4unping grounds by the Jersey people, and been
pslled TO use Barren Island place Of deposit They
bad place distant about hundred yards from Swift
but could not very well together the general
management Of affairs; 30 that they have building
IN OF construction for their purposes During
- visit he lying round exposed to view about six
hundred lead cows, i've hundred dead horses, and
shousand cats and other carcasses Occasionally one or
OF these allowed to fall overheard and float
lAese floating cacasses and that almost impossible
- nsh around Sleeps Head bay without foullng in
1ead horse other animal. Yet the contractors
vere blame altogether for this offensive Of
nings but rather the men whom they employed 70 bury
On their wsy o h nd Hs w"ud
s..sss tha. ne nuisance :. s-srsd shated and the
Commissioner BERGEN thought that all dead animals
ould be taken out to sea for burial instead OF to Bar
~ Island. He differed with the President to whom
- responsibility rested on and considered that the
0omen who made the contract the responsible par
- for the negligence exhibited In allowing the ofal 70
lrep into the water He held a complaint against
efts horse establishment at that place. signed by one
hundred farmers o. Long Island From from ane HOOK 70
er alone had recently buried nfy dead horses which
be found on the shore
The PnsIDEsr said that II was only the manner In
etch the business conducted that objcctiona
be- II is so far-four mesfrom any dwelling that the
or from the island cannot be Offensive they prevent
>As dropping along the shore.
DR.. Parker said II this nuisance continued II
would dcpopulate the whole place The idea Of allow
hg the whole shore TO be lined with these offensive
sssses thing not to be suffered under any consider
Commissioner BERGEN said II they dropped at
Aaif ebb tide in the Lower Bay they would back
aEAin; but IL dropped at ebb tide in the Lower Bay,
6ss they might be carried OF and there remain
The President Nas willing to stake all that he
vsrth that within three months he would cause the
whole difficulty TO be obvated and make these animals
source OF profit to the whole city and every ono else
commissioner BEsaxS desired that contractor be ar
pointed To collect and bury all the loose animals along
tae Long Island shore and proposed that Mr. DE Syse
- Appointed for that purpose.
The matter was finally referred TO Dr. Crane and Com
stoner Bergen 10 report some plan for the abatement
REPORTS OF THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
d. STONE then submitted the following reports
There shall DO department known a. the Department
e M,dcAl Relief The chief officer of this department
shaI be the Chief or Hospitals who shall under the su
psrsendent, execute all measures for medical relief
eIoptcd by the Board OF Health for the CONTROL nves
e.cson or suppression Of pcstientIal disease.
me city Of New York shall be divided into six hospital
Nss-EmOracios the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
NTH and Sixth wards.
Sse~a- Embracing the Seventh, Tenth, Seventeenth
fAs,d-Embracing the Fourteenth, Eighth, Fifteenth
1osrth-Embracins the sixteenth, Twentieth and
twenty second wards.
1V1-Embracing the Eighteenth Twenty -nrst below
my ninth street, and Nineteenth wards
61fn-Embracing the Nineteenth Twenty second, be-
Ihe Chief o. Hosp,as snail under direction Of the
Board Of Health, establish from time 10 time many
heopttas the exig ncics Of the epidemic shall require
fhs sanitary Committee shall nominate the Board Of
Ssath physician In chief 70 each ohosptal district
Whose duty IL shall DO TO superntend the medical and
Oeasra arrangement Of the hospitals Of the district 10
which he 10 assigned.
no Sanitary Committee shall also nominate for APP
continent by the Board Of Health many resident ply
ciAns and other officers Of the several hospitals esab
hcoed - IN their Judgment the services may require
fhs Chief OF Hospital shall select each hospital DIS
ose q suitable building or buildings which, under the
approval Of the Board Of Health shai be put IN proper
esedisAon for the temporary dwelling Of families whose
epartments mag require cleaning, which 4 may be
nscessary 70 permanently close These buildings shall
- known ~ refugees.
Tho Chief o. Hospital authorized organize corps
q medical visitors OF such numbers he may deem
nscs~sary, SUBJECT 10 the approval Board Of Health
- such visitors shall be paid dollars per month for
eAs unc they actually on duty
The San tary Committee would Offer the following