The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-25 00:00:00

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. TATIAL

Levi Government AetOlixe, 0, Richmond Terrace.
Whitehall, S.W.
10th July, 1871.
84.-1 am directed by Mr. Secretary Bruce to transmit here-
with • c M a letter which bas boon remived with Marone*
to the drainage of Weymouth. I have to mil the Local
ikerirs essiiiiits attention to the allegations ot the letter, both
as to mirsrage and small-pox. 1 have to ask 11 it in the Met
that the pert a the liackwater about to bo enclosed only takes
the drainage 01 000011 portion 04 the town, and to enquire
what action Use bonl Board has taken to prevent the spread
al emall-pox.
1000, sir, your obedient servant,
T. TATUM.,

To the Clerk. Local lavarkl, Wcyn2ouths

G, Woo,. Terrace, Weymouth, 7th July, 1871.
giri....Our Backwater Ls a tcry siateneive place, and the
corner to which you refer its a contract being entered Into for
a wail, Is a very small portion of it, and takes the drainage of
only somewhere shout a hundred houses. My remarks IVY
to the drsinag• of the Wan generally, nosey the who of
which Is allowed to empty itself iti the Backwater, which Is a
awl, owe, having a niuOly bottom and a comidetable
iimmiy the whole) portion of it uncovered at low water, and
o,„ .here you cot see the sewage lxiog deposited, and the
smell from which at hum is most olf.tievc. panic* being
obliged to keep their wind.** closed to prevent the eMovia
which , arise., and can be smelt at all tarts of the town.
Although there are drains put down in wino of the onsets, yet ,
they only empty thetasslvm p.t over the Backwater wall ----._--___
where people can we the sewage runalog down the wall at all
times, and thus cared to the sun'. rep, muslin' a foutui
stench. As to otos 1-pio, the Town Clerk reported to your , DETEILMINBD SUICIDE
toFimeAbe
bonouraole Board that there had never been more than ten Oa Saturday last an inques
cues and one death in my niaghbourhoal ; this was a gram , °°ld bNyVIBC.T.N.
misstatement, More than that number of ea... had taken 'et, who hanged
place in Weston-14mPa and Weeton-cAtages alone (the name , L
olinQwtheraborl' ByEloAcTlrl:rl at the
convict establishment,
of those afflicted at the time I have in ray Peeefeeeel• and nismself, at the ate of 30 years. At half-past one on
these buildings con•ist of twenty h num. As to the diem,. the 13th, the Governor saw him as mush elui
ivint to make, when. he
aesuming • milder form, there have been several fresh MAW asked hum if he bal any 0nm?.... . committed
this week, and I aminforln death'. cd flee or six deas. Al to the made no reply. On the 16th June he hao
preatution. WWI, Tril.it ho, taint done is fillICO 12 o'clock on an was& upon en °Moor,
Wobieeday, lath June,. after I had road the copy of a letter .-- would have taken plum on
by a Director, which trial
sent to your Board to the Itopector of Nuisances. Net place and wan waiting to bo tried
tte 14th, if he had been alive. Hi+ character Wan
has been provided by the Local Board of the town for the re.
CCltiull of peroms taken down YkiL . hii i dimass, elm pi th e vety bad; thore were many eonvietiolle again° bums I • , ,_
unipp hones. (If by the name of nwhelimierhom mother amides the loot for which be was under sentinoe. On
died about a sloop, leathig four children all infected with the morning of the 14th, Thomas Bradford. plight
It, the worm was taken on Monday, and the remainder on ' watohmaa, WU on duty outside the eepsrate walls, and
Wednesday, the whole family or children being eight, to the ' observed a sheet hanging to the bars of a sell window.
onion hour, and drawn in a ob.:el-chair belonging to taHe reported it to the assistant-warder. Clarke neuri
Idler by toot,' the tomato,. A man ha. been taken to to °mown.
who
went and looked into the se ll through I
the mine place. down In the thecae.. Think hi Thinking this In a adll• .
r,,,, the inspection hole, and saw the
Meat explanation of bow matter, are conducted—no place
prisoner hang
lake Mein but Itere—yet every promotion has been taken, and from the window end Gilled the orderly °Bleier, P u aing 1
el- '
those poor cnatures carried In the midst of healthy puipers. pal Warder Henley, and they oat him down. His
*bee lives arc not csynsideral of much Valle by our hands and false were oold, and to was not seen to
authorities. 1 hare taken the liberty of cutting out of a local breath ortoroter,
1 He must have done it himself, for
I."'"
Pang's° which
I have
anal.aaad..l alaa a raugh "aka
no one else could have done ... He MIA said nothing
of the wall, which only reaches a third o• the way SCIO•11, and i ted bat he
snob a thing ;
only 200 fat have been contracted for. (query) When will to show that he 00eWelP-• . _• :
the other too-thirds be begun and flubbed, aud hew many ha-I gone to work in a most determined manner, one
under I
years will it take to till in this enclosure after the wall is COM. tied his hands with a piece 01 sheetinge-- going 1
jdokedt We tin...UM, If asked, would POISIO a mom lea......reed his legs, no that 004 halld was behind and the other in .
lOdividual than
b,
..theleofrolneemieroak oi.fotthuols.iirong.piyurb- It Mato ......haviei trout. He court bae,, stood on the pillow on the guard
• meeting and niemuralise your hotiourabie Board, as ...8 inches. Here he
the nook, then tied his hands,
°micee or the town I. In a rery Inefficient std.. Triot.ii'ig beadld' italtirot°wn.dn bbicruselfimistearb' owl else
-A and his knee beet. when
i-on, honourable Board will give this matter their serious had 008 We 011 the ground
...xi
on hi. f... h.
'anilaratioe, ha was found, so that if he hall
I am, sir, your obedient Dermot, from his !kith
Tioip,ii 8. w.u.i... fiou:pbt:ematakeenathsetristrinip.
of olebti7"netn. This Bering
.r- 'haler, Pan., local Government Act 1.4110 e. that he had
, sat thas there wee no doubt bmissea to•
trra•7o6:4
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