New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-16
The following is the list Of referred TO IN tho
F.ra ep,tFt
THE BOARD or HEALTH AND THE SUBURBS.


A meeting of the suburban medical officers
OF the Board OF Health was held at the Board rooms on
Tuesday 10 receive Instructions aud compare IoieS 90
the sanitary work IN the rural portions of the Meop"
District The suburban medical officers of The Board
are: Dr, p stewart PeekshiD, C0rtiandt Dr. Geo >,
Fisher lsiug SING. Ossnlng; Dr. Geo Bayis tryDgtoe
aud HndsOn), Green burg Dr. y h freeman, West
Farms and Morrsania: Dr Geo J. Wright, Newto~n'
DIR. VIM. o. Meagher Edgewater; Dr. Solomon Andrew
westhed. DR.. Harris strongly urged upon the Inspee,
tors their responnbillty as cn'todlan' Of
duty should be the first consideration the
matter OF compensation being left to generous and ap
preciatiye public, To whom II belonged The ruralpOr-
Lon OF the Metropolitan District contains population
upward Of 80 villages and hamets Though TINS urai
population was less by many thousands than the nuget
OF people that crowd the one-and,alat SQUARE MES
East River and the Bowery still It required more ssa-
~ than seven medical officers could give and - the
suburbs were crowded during the summer by peoplefom
the metropolis their sanitary condition was almost as
much matter OF interest 20 the city as TO the owns
themselves Dr. Harris thus summarized the duties OF
suburban health officer; The perfect control Of con
tagious and injections diseases The extinction OF en-,
demio levers and malaria, by sanitary drainage ana
cleansing 8, The Improvement of water supply IN the
ygs D Isp sasy u s s5ea s
trOpOlltan countless The abatement and prevention VI
nueances against health IN the villages aud alons the
public roads G. The establishment Of the Metropolitan
System of Registration OF Vital Statistics. which the
Board of ieallh now prepared to every own
SO vital did he consider the subject that he prepared
aid them IN anything His office his maps and books
and his personal presence when deemed necessary we're
their disposal The Doctor then instructed bis subor-
dfnates the nature OF contagious diseases and I'm.
parted valuable recipes for their prevention aud
disinIection. For malaria dlseases-t0 which portion
OF the suburbs subjective knew OF but one prevent
ive--deep and thorough drainage lie continued;
Whoever would TO make ihp over the lac: Of the pind
Highways boulsvAds which being constructed In hona
nd Wet fsrmh especially b, travels ~ r Of one hu.rst'na
hr and 81 AIMS Church health and ever NE
In the Concentrated malaria Of thai besaufa through ube,
the sluggish Mill Brook foul marshes and
Of the Of 1900 Of the Inhabitants OF Morissna
% a %%" 6s Sa" . all s Staten % Gy he @
from BdgswAer PsetOryvps Port Rchned So hew,e nom
Hunters Point 70 finishing and Oy,tsr Bay from GrsnOp. aud
BrooiBn Jamaica th, deadly .IbiOus Of Gs. groun W
dansd already staked out plotted and partly built village
.tss demands the attention .nfal sanitary officers b.la TO the
lMa sonn the Board the
endemic thereon The nerest Of e people
trusted 10 Of which
demoniae 10 be But thu TO he
explicit and positive We must possible present true hsnet
aud Of human lie health
aa nsghborboots such reckoning h t,st
weeks started NE Trustees Of MesA execution order
the Board to drain slough ST. Anus Church that
village
The doctor then quoted largely from the drainage law
passed last Winter to show that any citizen desiring TO
drain his property procuring passage through contgu
GUS lands) need only present petition tho County
Judge for the appointment OF commission. IN con
clusion Dr. Harris spoke OF the supply aud the
abatement OF nusances, and the meeting adjourned.