1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

20 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
fact clear that the successors of the present incumbents
were to be elected only at the expiration of the terms of
the present members; each new member being elected for
six years.
Sec. 3. The important part of this section is the duty of
the Board to inspect the public institutions of the State,
and the Secretary explained that before any action was
taken he had communicated with the chief officers
of the
asylums and of the Penitentiary and they had expressed
the opinion that such inspection would be very proper and
desirable. The section was approved ; but later Dr. .J. W.
Jones thought that the inspection of the
stockades should
be made oftener than once a year, as frequently a stockade
was not in existence so long as a year, and in that event it
might not be inspected at all.
An amendment was added
much oftener as
to the section, providing for inspection as
requested by the "Board of Charities." The Secretary said
that he had considered the advisability of having the
superintendents of the public institutions make monthly
reports to the Board of Health, but as the}' have to keep a
record of these things any way, and include them in their
regular reports, he thought it
upon them.
Sec. 4. Approved without discussion.
not well to impose this duty
Sec. 5. This section was amended so as to make eligible
to membership in the County Boards of Health all properly
registered physicians.
Sec. 6. Dr. Hodges thought the law regarding fines
against Superintendents had been a dead law ;
that he believed
these fines had never been collected. He had at
times been delinquent in sending in his reports when he
was a Superintendent and had never paid a fine. The Secretary
explained that heretofore it had not been obligatory
on the Secretarv to notifv the Countv Commissioners of the