Report of the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly.

Jamaica. Central Board of Health

Date:: 1852

Credit: Report of the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$Sifter the expiration of which they should l)e forfeitetl to the public under the sanction of a law. 2nd. Dogs may be disposed of according to an existing law, which prescribes that they should have a collar with the owner's name engraved thereon, wanting which they should be destroy- ed. 3rd. Goats, exceedingsix in number, should not be allowed in yards, unless under the same re- gulation as that regarding stable manure. 4th. Offbl vegetable remains and rubbish should be removed daily to sites provided for the purpose.* Each site should have one la- [)ourer at least to receive the rubbish and to co- ver it over as it arrives with about six inches of earth, or it may be got rid of by burning. The rid)bish should be Collected by the occupants of houses in baskets, or any other portable recep- tacle, and kept ready for the public carts when they make their rounds. 5th. The accumulation of foul \vater can only he prevented by the construction of drains, either covered or opened, but tlie amount of it may be lesseiied by requiring that clothes, in large quantities, should be washed outside of the town. (jlh. If privies are used exclusively for their purpose, and made twelve feet deep at least, the nuisance arising from them is very much dimin- islied, as the liquid matter is absorbed by the dry soil on which the town stands. The only com- |)]ete remedy is the daily removal, but a great palliative of the evil would be the occasional < overiug of the soil-pit by a sprinkling of lime, or even of eailh. 7lh. Stable manure to be removied by tlu^ „ * Since tliis was wrifteii, Ibc Board of Commissioners, under flic ^oijiliway art, a1 (heir meeting on tlie 17l(i of .fuly, fixed on places of de- \rr)>^\\. ior llie ruld)i8h ni iho city ; and eoiitraets are about to be eiil^r'- ^'d h\U) I'oi Cleaning i( entire!}' ;uvay.$