Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-13
W|LLSEY WILL
RESIGN TONIGHT
No Sign az, to Action by Board,
When Health Officer Offers
to Step Down
INSPECT MILK SUPPLY
Government Agents Work Here
to Try and Stop Unsanitary
Conditions of Milk
An important meeting of the Board

An important meeting of the Board
of Health will be held at city hall to-
night at which time the commissioners
will discuss many matters.
This may be the last meeting of the
board this year and when the next
meeting is held in January, 1t Is ex-
pected that there will be some new
members to take the place of the out
going members.
At the meeting of the commission
ers tonight Health Officer William J..
Willsey will present his resignation
and at this time 1t is not known
whether the board will accept 1t or
not. Mr.. Willsey states that he is
says his time is not up until March,
1919, If the board desires him to do
SO.
At the last meeting of the board res
olutions were passed authorizing the
health officer to stop two milk dealers
from Woodbridge from delivering
milk in this city. Mr.. Willsey has
done all he can in this matter, but ac-
cording to him the legal end Of the
matter is being held up and the two
milkmen are still continuing to sell
I0ilk in this city, although the report
OF the health inspector made at tho
last meeting showed that the milk Is
unfit for use and the dairies dirty. The
board will go into this matter tonight.
The board will also take up the
splitting nuisance and the garbage
question and see what has been done
along these lines. They will also pass
on second and final reading the ordi-
nance licensing restaurants and lunch
rooms in this city.
The inspectors of the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington, arrived in
this city today and tomorrow morn
ing they will commence an inspection
of all milk here.
At the last meeting of the health
board the commissioners asked this
department to- send inspectors here,
and as result Inspectors Venner and
Mcbride were ordered to come to this
city. The inspectors will stop all To-
cal and out-of-town milkmen operat-
ing in this city and take samples of the
milk they sell and make a survey of it.
They will report to both the local
Board of Health and the Department
of Agriculture at Washington.
The board has started an active
campaign against people who own
hogs in this city and kill them on their
property when the board has ruled
that all hogs must be taken to the
slaughter house and killed there in the
presence of a health inspector, and
ldSl lHty pTeSStu CIldIBcS dBdiilSt
two local men woh were arraigned
before Recorder Pickersgill and fined
$40 each.
The men arrested and fined were
Charles Gensky of Hall avenue, and
Stephen Evenstein of Catherine street
They admitted killing pigs on their
own property. The charges were
pressed by Health Officer Willsey and
Inspector Thomas Wilhelm.
4 he la nf ha y,
announcement was made by President
Dilts that number of people owned
pigs and were killing them and that
any one caught doing this would be
arrested and fined.
Health Officer Willsey stated that
in most cases owners of pigs are living
up to this rule and that the inspec-
tors are not having much trouble, but
that where they find people who re-
fuse to obey the law they will be ar
rested and arraigned before Recorder
Pickersgill.