, 1885-04-22
P r O. E E D | N IS
OF THE
FOR ST. CROIx.
Continuation Of Meeting Of 18th April
1885. discussion on Sanitary RegulatiOnS.)

so TO speak, a general panic all over the
civilized world of the Cholera spreading
from one country to the other, it also be-
came necessary for us to do what was III
our power to avert that calamity there
was to that purpose laid before the COun-
Gil a Draft Of Ordinance purportlng to
invest the Government with authority 10
do what was requisite in that respect. That
Draft was here discussed, adopted, prOvl-
sionally published, and later, on the 29th
November !. Y. sanctioned by His Majesty
the King and promulgated on the 3Oth
December as final Ordinance. Pursuant
to this Ordinance Sanitary Regulations for
the Island shall be provided, both tor the
Towns and for the Country Districts, which
after having been laid before the Council
and adopted by same shall he promulgated
Gy the Government. AT the same time the
Government was given free hands to issue
the present temporary Regulations but
whicn can only remain i'll force latest TO
Both June this year. The Government has
therefore framed these Drafts which are
to-day laid before the Council. They are,
in their general contents compiled from the
Sanitary Regulations valid in certain cities
in Depmark outside of Copenhagen, but
particularly from those Of Nyborg OF 20th
March 1882, for Randers of 3Otl Decem-
Der s. v, and for Fredericksburg 18th Janu-
airy 1883, but of course modified according
to the local requirements of this Island.
HONORABLE Members will find that by the
Draft of Regulations tor the towns the
fulilment of the duties therein prescribed
has been laid upon a Board Of Health tor
each town, consisting Of the POlIcemaSter,
as Chairman, in ChriStianSted OF The Kings
Physician, in FrrderikSted OF the Public
Physician and of 4 other Members for each
owl to be elected 9 by the Colonial CouH-
Gil and 2 by the Government TO act 4 years
at "a time. In the Country Districts the
general supervision Of the Sanitary Rrgu-
latioN is committed to the respective 20
licemasters, who in matters OF greater I'M
pOrtance have to consult with the Official
medical Authority. In recommending the
Drafts he would not now enter further INTO
the details before he HAD heard the re-
marks that might fall from the Members.
He would merely add, that the Drafts had
been laid before the PolicemaSrer i'll this
jurisdiction and the Kings Physician, and
as both these Officials are Members present
it might be expected that they will state
what they find necessary in the matter.
2nd Member for FrederikStedS Country
District (HeWitt In reading over the
OIulCS uc Hdl lOlIu lHc tClLu RhlNt'O'
Authority" used in several places he would
beg to ask the honorable Secretary who Is
meant by the Superior Authority he
thought that ii is the Government that is
meant; but when we come to 3S OF the
Town Regulations, we find it stated that
requests for permission to depart from the
regulations are to be decided by the Go
vernment,"-and again complaints of
the decisions taken by the Board are
likewise to be decided by the Govern
ment." It seemed that the case is to be
80, that any party having reasons of com.
plant shall apply to and get a decision
from the Sanitary Board but then in !
2 it is provided that the Chairman Of the
Board, if he find any reason to differ from
the Board has to place the matter before
the Superior Authority this Authority
must be some one else than the Govern
ment. Now, he had been making enquiries
rs to who this Authority could be in Ere
deriksted, and lie had been told on very
good authority, that as the Policemaster
is the one who will be making the applica-
ton, and as of course he cannot make it to
himself, it must be to His Majesty's Col
lector of Customs to whom applications
would have to be made in such cases, as to
a Superior Authority above the Policemas-
ter OH the spot; but he did not know if
this was meant in the Draft. 1t is not
quite plain, as the Draft is now framed, who
is Superior Authority in the instances treat