04/14/193831
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING, BOARD OF HEALTH
HELD IN OFFICE OF BOARD
APRIL 14, 1938
Present: Chairman Addison Hewlett, Mr. H. M. Roland, Dr. J. C. Wessell,
Dr. W. Houston Moore, and Dr. H. L. Keith.
Minutes of last meeting were read and approved.
The Health Officer presented the monthly reports.
Mr. W. D. McCaig and Mr. C. B. Parmele appeared before the Board as
a committee from the Jas. Walker Memorial Hospital, requesting that the
$1940.00, past due on patients in the isolation ward, be included in the next
budget.
It was moved by Dr. Wessell, seconded by Dr. Keith, that the Board of
Health include in its next budget the amount of $1940.00 as requested by the
committee from the hospital. Carried.
With Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. J. E. L. Wade, and Mr. Laughlin,
engineer in this department, present, the Board discussed at length the
problem of garbage collection, after which it was moved by Dr. Wessell,
seconded by Mr. Roland, "that all hotels, restaurants, hospitals, apartments
and big boarding houses in the city of Wilmington, be permitted to make
contract (sell for money) with private collectors for daily collections of
garbage, in accordance with the Regulations Governing Health and Sanitation
for the City of Wilmington and New Hanover County; and that all other
garbage be collected by the Department ot Public Works- such garbage to be
disposed of to people who have vehicles and containers approved by the Board
of Health. Such regulation to become effective May 1, 1938." Carried.
The Board authorized the Health Officer, to attend the state meeting
of the Public Health Association in Pinehurst, May 2, 1938.
There being no further business, the Board adjourned.
Approved: May 13, 1938 A. H. Elliot, Clerk