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CHATHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J. BOARD OF HEALTH
Minutes, 1881-1895. 1 vol.
The Chatham Township, N.J. Board of Health (Morris County) was established in 1881 as a result of state legislation (1880-1881) that first authorized the creation of local boards of health and empowered them to issue ordinances. Meeting minutes include the first set of township health ordinances (1884) for this town of 4,377 inhabitants, notes on health inspection, appointment of inspectors and special committees, accounts of contagious diseases, approval of slaughterhouses and butchers, and citizen complaints about unsanitary conditions.
Specific complaints concern the disposal of dead animals, rabies, slaughterhouses and butchers, pig-pens, foul odors, garbage and waste removal, and sanitary problems from sewerage, cisterns, privies and water supplies. Includes names and locations of health code violators. Also, documents cases of contagious diseases: measles, diphtheria, malaria, cholera, smallpox and scarlet fever. Committee members between the years 1881-1895 included:
Baldwin, Dayton Griswold, Benjamin Ogden, William W.
Brittin, William J. Hopping, Eugene Osborn, M.M.
Burnet, B.W. Hopping, Theodore Reed, L.H.
Bush, C.M. Lum, Merrit B. Swain, George M.
Crane, Marcus B. McDougal, George S. Tunis, John M.
Dehart, John N. Miller, Edward P. Van Wagner, Dr. J.E.
Genung, Andrew N. Muchmore, Hudson Wolfe, Dr. W.J.
Genung, George W. Young, Henry W.
Purchase, 1982
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