The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-26 00:00:00

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"The Seeond Annual Report of the Sanitary Condition
of the Crime District of fie= we.' °Goodness, Luxii
what 'air 'se got there, cheeld I Read it again • its Looked
away my breath." Never mind my going liack again,
Grandmother, you won't he any the wiser. "That he
fudge," iaid the uld lady, "Do"., mane to my ea a hook
I. writ to shoe us be mail, then r "0 no.- I explained.,
It it to show we are not 'DI,' that. all, Grandmother.
"Oh, that be all: go on Own I went on. "Slop; what
do 'er say 'beatuTifel town of Seranase I' That be the rust
time I ever h'ard it via; ierel." I went on again. "Biel.
cheeld. 'or says our seat wind ' is not so cold and dry as Ls
generally imagined, compared with inland places.' I
ken% say, caws I nicer bin fur ; bur they did allus tell 1
aa it were 'an ill +rind blovred Nobody nar good,' wher-
ever it cowed, and I know it lie could enough to take my
breath clean away. But there I never did ha any to
speak on." I made haste on, or if I had listened to all
Grandmother had to say I might hove been reeding now.
"The sheltered position of the town, its immunity from
fogs, and moet desirable position, wherein is expenenced
that genial [nada., common to places almost surrounded
by the sea, lead ow to remark that these lavished gifts of
nature await the finishing touch and future development
by Ds= in making it's picturesque town." "Lucia. that
be • longish bit wront • full stop. What do 'sr mean by
r picturftque. Grandmother r Ea. ** That
me..., I explained, fit for • picture" "Lek, Lucia I
then be it ever so pritty it haul vii vur vramid. Now 'or
can buy • pritty one wront • frame for haife crown."
That does not represent the town. Grandmother, but
the shore, I said." "Ah, so it be, so it he."
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" There were a censer taken in 1871, did 'or say, Lucia.
I tbourht they things died out wi the Jewish ecommy.
There ee do knaw r " Census, Grandmother; counting
the people," I explained. "Oh, I see, there am LIR yolk
in the parish. That be prittr many ror • place like this.
Let, now where be they all keept to They doent all
come to church anyhow." I read on " The rate of
marriages would 4-6—" "Stay, cbeeld. thee knaves
everything—what do thick mane r 'That only 4 in a
thousand were married last year, Grandmother; • the
average for all England and Wales during the year WM
was 166—that is four times a. many more people were
married in other place.. "There, now, I allus did say
as our young men was terrible slow at being called
whom.. Why disn't thee show 'am egrsample. Lucie r
No till you are called home," I said, affectionately, and
patted her old white head. While she wee wiping out a
tear I read on. "The numbet of male children born
during the year was 32 and of females 40." "The
beautifullest and most h mdsomest young Turk,?'
exclaimed the obi lady "Lucia, what is your views of
matrimony r "That it is an aged and well-tried institu-
tion, which has never cal will never go out of fashion,
Grandmother, in spited radicalism, and that to it I owe
the fact of being shle to, love, honour and cherish, till we
do part, my dear old mother" mother." "Lucia. haat to'
bin dnnkin*l" she asked. " Yea, I bare had a good pull
at Frog's Well on my way up street, Grandmother."
"Then it were after a swig at moment somewhere eke r
she exclaimed.
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I read the death all
Undor I Toe. 10•sr SO at% Sgverlet. ITZ.4 Inquests
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Dr. Delemons shows that. tboush we have not escaped
contagious Maws, four fatal eases having mem red, yet
there has been no epidemic.; and some of these diseases
mem to hare been imported.

The medical carer would like the water of " Frogs
the "Mill Pond," and the well in likion.read,
Hinton, analysed, the sample to be taken after beery
rain." "Do 'Cr noel That be ashy, rayther. How would
be like to he tried at his worst.' "Look here, Grand-
mother, remember he lays 'Dories rains the eater in the
Mill rood is bichly charged with surface water and
drainage.' " Well, it do look too ores* to he wholesome
at the best re times; said tb• old lady. " But this he
particolsr. k sel exactly whst 'se do say." ' The Clerk
of she Board informs me that the Board is waiting to take
• wimple of water tor smartie In order to ascertain If the
spring In the 'Mill Part Iv pure—lf no the Board will
secure it from all contamination : on the other hand
should it he impure. the Board will bring about 110014
different morn of supply. Two other rourwo are open—
vii, to extend the main of the Swamies Waterworks
Company, and to compel those houses without water to
have it laid on thirdly, to sink • well in some position
quite out of the way of all drains, etc." "Well, that do
polite I to make oat. reyther. The Board bee aeons
cos non afore 'em. That's • peeled punie for 'em anyhow.
I see they what to make the pond out to be a had on. By
thick letter null page I should think ef the Baird wea to
'ay • night o' it &hiss, they Mal catch the 'funny bone'
o' one o' th' ineeiiners a buried up the bill." "Grand-
mother, I have three serious objections," I said, not to
the Liana. but to the doctor's hints," "Which be they r
trentioned the old lady. "Pint, it is reseriphirel to do
away with 'drawer,-o(-water' secondly, tile vandalises
to do away with such en ancient custom; and, thirdly, It
will be the destruction of seated estrirssie" "Lucie' said
the deer mint gravely, "Doet en go and swan at an weld
:roman. an thy granny too. "Whatever be vestry Interest?'
There's not mach, I think," I replied. "geeing en few
attend the meeting., but by ' rested interests' I mean the
, kW/ wares • &rent our poor neighbours earn in the present
way of xettinc water." "Lb. poor dears r she cried, and
then she fell sal p.

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The sewerage the medical authority does not recommend
to he ex Waded. We are plait to bear no more about Om
/theme. the plans for which have reit so much. The
Resent sewers give no trouble end have been properly
Wended to. The slaughter-hod.. have teen inspected.
pad the houses in Apaley-row (better known as Aster-row,
or better Atilt as Up-About-leer) have been more or lees
ventilated. -

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wer echo the report of the Medical Officer and of the
Inspector uf Nuisance. that an Urinal is needed new the
Pier.
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Ttse Appendix to the report contain. two valuable
tabulated statement.. The lint table allows what &loam
were fatal and the awe of the diseased. la the account ol
violent &lithe, however, and doubtlessly bp ovenight.
there Is =Me Goo the net al the verdict the New

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presd as the fol—eal Board by the wow's jury tor not
atteadhag to the molts'7 state of • tertian pert of
Hendon. Table II contains • report ml the Inapector's
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The report which includes the medical officer's Akin!
instruction; and an isidiur to the wh le, whatever our
grandmother thinks or h •ai.l, is well w edit perusal and
reflects credit on LI, D. Peter Delanaotte. Bet
Oh for that pas: ,&J. WheS gi.ete laid golden rftP
and there were n Telerium, and wan no niedical
offic,o, logportoro of w any suell reports
were needed One n. sill! riquains true tdire, rhunnh
the rano. woo se..n t• torn pie whe, nows come that the
Ileirld.ll lia.l retired (oar miles (rein Coustontinople.
that pertoo is yours eliedienUy
Lucia.