The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-09-13

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
FREEHOLD, N. j., Sept. 10th, 1906.
To the Board of Commissioners of
the Town of Freehold
GENTLEMEN:
the call for this meeting in our local
papers reminded the Board of Health
that there should be some report of
its doing to your Board
But where to begin or end this re-
port was perplexing question as the
books or minutes do not show when
the last report to your Board was
made.
But by referring to the files o. our
local papers we found there had been
no report made since April 28th. 1904.
Therefore this report will have to
cover period of about two years and
four months. And we find by refer
ring to our books during this time we
have had thirty-two complaints made
to this board. All of which have been
Investigated and the trouble or nui-
sance complained of has in most all
cases been speedily remedied.
There have been thirty-three cases of
contagious diseases reported of which
10 were of diptheria, 10 of typhoid
fever and of scarlet fever.
But there has been no deaths re-
ported from any of these cases as far
as the books show.
Our Board besides our regular meet
ings have held ten special meetings.
There have been some complaints to
this board of the unsightly condition
of certain front porch located on
West Main street.
And under our new ordinances
which went into effect on September
3rd, 1906 if this Board takes action
on this matter and decides tbs danger
GUS to health or life it can order it's
occupants to vacate the building in
question.
During the period this report COW
ers the board has been requested to
have analized the water from six wells
in our town, and has ordered 4 of
them closed because the water was
found TO be impure and unfit for
domestic purposes.
The Board would call the attention
of your board to the condition of the
ditch or old water course running from
Mclean street to the gas house that
the same is in a very unsanitary con-
dition.
The most of the com plants that
come to this Board have either been
from some neglected out door water
closet, or a heap of garbage.
Our board feels it is able under our
new code of ordinances to take care
of the water closet nuisance and or
der if they think it is necessary that
they be discontinued to be used; and
right here we might remark that in
the whole of Asbury Park they have
but two outside water closets in use
that are not connected with pu bile
sewer in the whole city
But the Board asks the speedy CO.
operation of your board regarding
the garbage question that the same
be collected and removed from our
Town by contract at the public ex-
pense.
On Jan. 3, 1894. the Board of Health
passed an ordinance ordering that
the secretary of the board should be Il
recorded OF vital statistics But for
over twenty two years this was never
put in practice, but our new ordi-
nances provides for this and this board
purpose and GU July 1st, 1906. the
physicians and ministers were re-
quested to make reports of all births,
marriages and deaths occurring in the
Town of Freehold to the secretary of
this board whose duty it is to record
the same and forward same to the
State Board of Vital Statistics at Tren-
ton, and for the months of July and
August our Board has received the
following:
Three death certificates.
Six marriages.
Twenty Births.
Ten males and ten females. The
cause of deaths were as follows
l FROM consumption.
+" appendicitis.
. . lnanitiou
So it can be readily seen by the
above statistics that the town OF Free
hold is in a good healthy growing con
dition.
Respectfully submitted
ALoNzo BRowER,
Sacratarv e. Tusnaetnr