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-=-- ISiEADYFODWG LOCAL BOARD. PKOPOsED FEVER HOSPITAL. j THE SALARIES OF THE OFFICIALS. The u-nal fortnighUy meeting of the strady- fedwg L"C*1 Board Mas held on Friday last, when there were present Mr J. Davids, Bry[}ffd Ie en. in the ch,iig, Messrs Dd. Jones, Kvan Davies, J. Davies (Yardy), T. Griffiths, J. Walters, LJ W. Davief, A. Cnle, and S Smith. Mr W. H. Matthias tht, new member, having been duly sworn, thert-upon took liia seaL-A. tender was received from Mr David Jones, undertaker, Treherbert, for the su. ply of a 0 hearse slId one horse at 20s., and far a hearse and two horses, 30^.—Mr Walters asked if they had two or threa corpses for interment in one doy whether they could not get some modifiation-The CbHirman thought it wt.uld be enough to have one.— The Clerk (Mr Valttr R. Morgan) said tle undertaker would hardly Le willing to tske a c rpse from one house, and ttieu back lo another houab for a second corpse. —Mr D. W. Davies asked if they would stop pub ic "lunerals by having a hearse.—The Clerk replied that they could lI',t slop public funeral.—Mr D. W. Davies thou hL ttittt, was ihe idea ot the medical ctiicer in recommending that. a hearse should be \o.aed.- Mr J. Duvies saii that wren there was ft heaiee it was iUwaya a check to a very large extent, but the iioiu d had no power to stop public funerals. —The tsnder was a ceptfd. WATER. Si PPL\ AT CLYIACH. Mr. D. W. Davies asked the surveyor (Mr J. W. Jones) what he tad dote with regard to the water supply fLr « lydach.-The Surviytr replied that he had done nothing in the maotk-r. The Chairman said that tbo intention of the waterworks committee wan tu htivo fad ic from CWUI Clyduch. Mr D. W. Davits said that ttey could not get it, as there was aouie legal difficulty jn it.e matter, lip y. iahJd to knew what cue inhabitants were to lil', as there weie 150 houses tcexe which bad not a dropof water. the people having to go about two uilts to fetch the water they needed.—The Clerk surgesed that Mr I). W. i)uvlta should propose a resolution on the sabjt-ct.—Mf D. W Da.viu tbuoght th",t aresoluti n had already been passed.— i he Clerk 3ai'i ttiat the only resolution was thac the sUiVoyot rfhou-d pre- pare an estimate of the cost.—Mr D. W. U.vies -asked whether ttio wateiwoiks company were not tesponbible for aiiDplying water to the ccttates, as tuey would Dot allow anybody else to do so. 1 he Clerk said the pre per cou do' to adopt would be for the Boaru io give tue wateI works company notice to euppty tLe collages with vsater, and that if thecom- j<&u7 diu not do su then the Board might supply- Mr D. W. Davies proposed that the waterworks company to served with a not ce to supply, the water. — Mr T. iir ffiths seconded the proposition.— Carried. APPLICATION FOK LAYING TSLEPHOiSE POLES. The Clerk suid that there was an application from "the Telephone Company to lay down poles for tele- phonic purpu-ea lh ougb the district of the Board. lib suggested tt,a.t the Board should, in addition to charging the <rdiiia»y shiliing a pole per annum, ask that telephonic conni unicaticn should be laid on bei.we< n the otticts or the Board and his (the Clerk's) cilice in Poutypridd free of charge.—Mr T. iiriiffitl.s proposed that permission be grafted upon the tenus suggested by the Clerk.—Mr D. W. Davies seconded the resolution, which was carried. -&Ir I'-bLez, of the Western Counties and South Wales Telephone Company, who was in attendance, -was then admitted into the board room, and in formed of the terms upon which the Board were willing to comply with the request of the telephone company. whereupon Mr Foster promised to convey their decision to the general manager. He then I Twithdrew. THE SANITARY COXDITIOS CF PORTH. A memorial, signed by a number of the influential inhabitants of Porth, a* read stating that on the 14th instant a meeting of the Porth and distr;ct tradesmen was convened to take into consideration the sanitary condition of Portb, which was in a very unsatisfactory state. About four years some drains were made for the put pose of diaining, but they jegietted to say that the drain between Hannah- atreet and the river had never properly attained the object which the Board had in view. The drain had been opened and re-opened, but still the defect which existed had not leen remedied. The drain in its present state was a source of great danger to the inhal itauts. The memorial concluded by ask ng the Boaid to place the matter in the hands of a competent engineer—Mr T. Griffiths said with the exception of the part relating to the surveyor, the inhabitants had cause for serions com; laint. As the surveyor was awaie the fall was Dot great enough there, and the le st blockage in the sewer prevented any circulation ihtre.— Mr J. Davies said he could assate the Board that there were heaps of oomplbiuts in regard thereto. He would propcso that a committee of the Board meet those people who hud signed the memorial on the ground with the surveyor. He had attended the meeting which was held, and had advised them to send a memorial to the Board.—Mr D. Jones asked whether the com- plaint refer.ed to the old drainage or the new drain- age.-Mr T. Griffiths said that was with reference to the existing drains, not the forthcoming drainage. —The Purveyor said he thought the source of com- plaint was at a point between the Porth Hotel and the Primitive Methodist Chapel. There was a sub- side noa «f the colliery workings there. He was under the firm conviction that that was what caused the defect. The other portions of the drain worked satisfactory. He did not twnk the I ernarks in the referred to the drains that he was making now.— Mr T. Grithths seoonded Mr Davies' proposi- tion for the appoittment of a oom toil tee.—Carried. PROPOSED FEVER HOSPITAL, The Clerk received the following letter from the Local Government Board with reference to providing hospital accommodation for infections diseases :—SIK,—I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have bad under foraidt-ration a copy of the ieport of the Medical OfBter of Health for the Ystradyfodwg Urban Saiitaiy District og the ieceDt prevalence Ferndale. Having in view the circumstances recorded in that report, the Board dtj>iie to draw the attention of the Sanitary Autboiity to the 'advantage they would have possessed ia dealing with the outbreak in ques- tion, as well as with outbreaks of other infectious diseases which have occurred from time to time in the diatiict, if they had ba.d in readiness some Hospital accommodation (not necessarily of a large or expensive chiracter) for the isolation of those persons who could not be treated at their own nornes without danger to others. The Board's experience ia that where proper Infectious Mnspitsl accommodation ha.3 been provided by a Sanitary Authority, the independent poor, and indeed the inhabitants generally, are not un- willing to avail themselves of its alvantages. Moreover in tlo abstnee of a Hospital, many USt.8 iu which it might be desirable to enforce the provistons of Section 124 of the Public Health Act, 1S73, must necessarily be left in houses where tber e 130 naasiftfsily a want of proper lodging and accemmodation" within tMe meaning vf that section, with the likelil ood of their Wcoming so many centres of infection. I am to lXIint out fcnat by the prompt isolation in hospital « £ the earliest cases of an infectious disease slight outbreaks might often be prevented from giving -xi.s,e to serious epidemics, which independently of toe suffti?inff-and mortality that they cause, often throw htavyjburdens npon the rates. Having *egwd therefor# to the grave responsibility which tho Sanitary Authority i&eur by the spread of infections disease in the district in consequence of the want of ttt means of isolation which under thcpruviattna of the Public Health Act, they are ep'Oowereti to supply,. I aw to request that tbey w 11 take the question into Consideration and it ui the Board otthe result.—Mr A. Cule sug- gtoujd that they should apply to Messrs Cory Bros. tut pcftniaaioD to use Maindy Hall, gratis, < f the pu>pose3 of an infections hospital. He would pruyesie that a deputation from the Board wait ujpo* wa Cory &rt« fof that, purpose and that they *||p wait upon My tjratjrsffSy Bailey's tim fco waire the question of ground rent.-1— Mr D. W. Davies seconded the I motion which was asrref-d to.—The Chairman and Mes^-s A. Cule and Evan Davies were appointed as a d^puHtiou.—The Cbrk to th" Surveyor I'he pl-ins will be rjady this day fortnight P—The 'I Suiveyor; Ye*The Clerk On what land P- Thf. t^urveyoi On Pentyla land.—The Clerk was instructed to r.-ply to tbo L;>col Government Bciard that two schemes—one the erection of a ferf-T ho?p&a), and the otber that of securing Mnindy Hill fin t'•<« purpose—were before the Board and tnat one of them would be adopted. THE SALAKItS OF THE OFFICIALS. The Clerk read the foihwini; letter which the chair- man had received from Mr William Jetikin?, one of the I members of the P> in d:—"Sir, 1 was very sorry to find at this last moment th t I canrot attend the Btatd meeting to-day. felly intended dc;iugso,and had arranged accordingly, out an important appoint- ment, whicii 1 cannot forego, has been made for me in Cardiff this afternoon with eoino of my people who are but 8";dullI in tho district. Undt-r th se circumstances ni .y 1 Hsk you to lay the following before the Board having reference tu the motion standing against my name in the agenda, viz.: the question of wages and salaries. The suggestion I should pi ke upon this subject were I present, would be. and 1 hope I may be peraiitied to do so now by letter, that a committee be selected from the members of tJ e Board to consider the question ot wages paid (o workmen under regular employ- ment by the Boaid, having reference to wages paid to similar clas-see of ku.ien in the district, and that the same lommi'^ee also deal in the same manner with tho salaries of certain officials of the Board. Mv reason fu" drawing the Board's atten- tion to these matters is that I find the wages paid to workmen in the regular etnyloy if the Board are considers :ly higher than those paid to similar classes of workmen employed elsewhere ;n the dis- L icr, noiwithstandirg ihat the Board's workmen areeu.ployed resr larly throughout the year, whereas a nimilur el.iss of workmen employeu elsewhere are subject to a considerable losa of time, as well as a lower rate of wages. As to the offioials I think these should be taken into consideration. Take, for instance, the inspectors. These have been, during the last cix or s .'ven years, receiving 30 per Of at. upon their original salaries. Of course I ex- press no olliniou upon this subject, further than it is a matter, undet- the present depressed state of trade in this district, that should have the Board's atten- tt-n ion, and it appears to me that a committee is the most efl'crual manner of dealing with the sub- j.ct. and [ usk upon the grounds piven that a com- mittee of the Buard bo appointed for the purpose.— Mr Evan Davies said thut the inspectors had more joil) work to do now than when they were appointed.- Mr D vid Jjnqs as-id what the workmen uuder the Board wire paid.—Tue C'erk read the list, h"m which it appeared that the payments varied from 2s 3d ;o W 2d per day. -Mr J. Divies moved th;it a committee be appomied as suggested by Mr Jen- kins, and tnat the matter be discussed at the next meeting of the Board.—Mr Waiters seconded the molioc, which was agret d to.- The following was tho committee appoioted :-The Chairman, Messrs W. Jenkins, P. Griffiths, — Jones (Craigddu), — Davies (Por h Hothi), — Evane, and — Lax. OVERPAID RATE BY THE DINAS COLLIERY COMPANY. The Clerk -aid that ths auditor had stated that he should surcharge the collector unless the Dinas Colliery Jompany paid the money which was due on the last rate-—\lr E. Davies moved that the sum ot 1:6 19.i 5d, the amount overcharged on the current rate, be aliowed.-This was seconded and agreed to.

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