Conservation Commission Meeting, 1912 



The Comiiiission of Consorvatioii hflil its Mr. M. J. I*nif..ii .-t;. 



tliir<l aiiiiuril iiu't'tin;,', acoonliii;; to Htatutf. ».'<Ti'tary of th. 



on Tiu'sday, .laii. Hi. The ('oiiiiiiissioii met . .| for the V ' 



in the Carne^'ie Library, Ottawa, tli. injj AninwiK 



niciiiliers present heiiif; llim. ClilTonl Sif i. s toin-heil 



ton. wlio presided, Sir Sandford Fleming, tlie finh an<l 



of Ottawa; lion. Martin Hurrell, of Ot- nit |irovin<'. 



tawa; Hon. II. S. Behind, of St. .losejdi de .Tien, fur fai,,, 



Beauee, P. {}.; IFon. W. C. Kd wards, of Ot- nature of the | 



tawa; Dr. B. E. Fernow, of Toronto; Hev. tiirul rp«our<-iH. 



Dr. (!eo. Bryce. of \Viiini|ie^', Man.; Mr. I.i'm i\ !»or,t«. hvdrm:' 



Messrs. Frank- Davison, of Brid-.'ewater. fur the 



N. S.; C. A. M.Cool. of Ottawa, and .1. V work doi.. ... ; 



Maekay, of the (;iol»e, Toronto. ,.rn water powern. and 



~, , . . ttr of n 'powiT 



riie ehairnian opened the meetinj; with .. 



a brief speech and then called on the dif .''• , • 



ferent technical ollicers of the Commis- l^riti^h ( olun.bia w 



gJQ,^ a reHUUie of th 



th« provineiul 



Dr. C. A. Ilodjietts, Medical Adviser to tho Work, and 



the Commission, reported for the Commit- tUf nnniinion < 



tee on Public Health, touchin}; on tho flic Kailwny Belt and !• 



work of that committee in reyarcl to tu- iMi;;ineerM in the Koot. ., . 



bereulosis, the establishment of a Domin- work done for the town of 

 ion Department of Public Health and of Mr. I'aftor tb« nub 



a Dominion Laboratory, where sera of jitmn work ■ 

 fiu.aranteed stren;rth ami i)urity could be 

 prepared, infantile |(aralysis, town jilan- 

 nin^ and housin>;, rural sanitation, inspec- 

 tion of meat, the Ottawa typhoid epidemic 

 of 1!>11, bovine tubercuhisis. aii<l the estab- 

 lishment of the Canadian Public llealtli 

 As.sociation. 



Mr. F. C. Xunnii'k, a^jricultural expert 

 of the Commission, then jiresented the re- 

 port of that section. Amonj; the tofdoi* 

 touched u|ion were tho ajjricultural sur- 

 vey of representative areas of the differ 

 ent provinces, and the investij;:ition of 

 alfalfa ;rrowinjf in the province of (Quebec; 

 a number of su;fj;estions for the future 

 work of the Commission were also givvn. 



Mr. W. .1. Dick, mining; expert for the 

 Commission, presented the report of tliat 

 section, discussinjj briefly the inspect ii>n 

 of coal mines made under t' 

 the Commission, makin;,' n- 

 for tho botterinjf of ^fovernment rev,'uin- 

 tions in re;;aril to natural yaM, rec' '- ■■'" 

 tlrill holes and jdans of abandoned 

 and recommending a Koyal «'iiii ■ ^ 



investijs'ate the hi;;h ileath rri" 

 mines of Canatla. 



Tho chairman then brt>iii;lit :; 

 ter of peat fuel, reading; a in- 

 prejiared by tho Superintendent <'t 



on the estalilishment "f" ' • ' w,.l i 



Canada. ''r 



