The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07 00:00:00

INTERESTING PRESENTATION TO SUPER-
INTENDENT KEMP.

On Monday, at the Shire Hall, Worcester, just
before the commencement of the business of the
County Quarter Sessions, an interesting ceremony
took place, namely, the presentatian of an Albert
medal of the second class to Superintendent Kemp,
recently of Halesowen and now el Per •
shore .—Colonel Carmichael stated that the
particular service performed by Superintendent
Kemp was his removing, at great personal risk, a
large quantity of gunpowder from a building at
Halesowen on January 18th, 1881. The Secretary
intimated that the decoration was to be presented
to the recipient with circumstances of publicity, and
it was decided that the Earl of Coventry should be
asked to make the presentation in her Majesty'o
name.—The noble lord, in doing so, spoke of the
brave conduct displayed by Superintendent Kemp
at a fire at Halesowen, where he had, at the peril
of his own life, removed 501b3. of gunpowder ecn-
tained in a canister already scorched with heat. It
sometimes happened that deeds of bravery of this
kind passed unnoticed, but happily this was not the
case in this instance. The noble lord then presented
to Superintendent Kemp the medal, who, in reply-
ing, said he felt deeply the honour her Majesty
had conferred upon him. He thanked his lordship
for making the presentation, and also the memorial-
ists through whose exertions the award had been
brought about. He particular referredto Mr.
Dixon-Hartland, M.P., Mr. E. B. Phillips (Hales-
owen), and Mr, B. T. Sadler, Chairman of the
Local Board of Health, Oldbury. In regard to the
act for which the award was made, he thought he
had done no more than his duty, and what ha did
on that occasion he was ready to do again.

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BRIERLEY HILL LOCAL BOARD.
A monthly meeting of the above Board was held
on Monday afternoon at the Town Hall, Mr, W.
Wal Iron (chairman) presiding.
Upon the recommendation of the Sanitary nail
ureuerai rurputs. Comixiittcn, it Iva. decided to es,r
the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company to
extend their mains to Turner's-lane, so that a
proper supply of water might be afforded to certain
houses there.
The Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Ashmead)
reported that 17 deaths had been registered during
the month, the death-rate being 16.8 per 1,000 per
annum. Two of the deaths resulted from second-
class zymotic diseases. The annual report of Dr.
Ashmeaci ws.s al-o presented. It showed that the
death•rate for the year averaged 28 05 per thousand
and the rate of zymotic diseases 37 per thousand.
The birth-rate was 39 per thousand. In 1879 the
death-rate was 1945. ;in 1880, 2048; and in 1881,
15.5 per thousand.- The total number of deaths
registered last year was 212, and births 463. Of
the deaths, six resulted from typhoid fever and one
from scarlet fever. Amongst the improvements
carried out in the district during the year were the
increase of connections made between private
houses and the main sewer ; the extension of the
South Staffordshire Waterworks Company's mains;
the completion of. the paving in the principal - -
streets ; bringing the lodging houses under the
control of the bye-laws and the Public Health Act,
and the establishment of a more efficient and
sygtematic mode of removing the night soil, •
Negociations had been opened for the construction
of filter beds and th ) question of erecting a public
slaughterhouse had been considered. He recom-
mended the Board to provide an isolation hospital,
so as to enable them better to cope with contagious
diseases.

The report of the Finance Committee showed

that the expenses of the recent Local Boardelection
was £29 9s. 6d. The balance in the treasurer's
hands amounted to .435 lie. 3d. This being the
list meeting of the Board, a cordial vote of thanks
was, upon the motion of Mr. M. Rollinson,
seconded by Mr. Macmillan, passed to Mr. Waldron
for the efficient and courLeous manner in which he
hid discharged his duties as chairman during the

year.
A. vote of thanks was also accorded to Mr. B.
Freeth, who had served the town on the Board for
three years, bnt who was a defeated candidate at
the last election.
The members' attendances at the fifteen ordinary
and special meetings of the Board held during the
year had been as follows :—W. Waldron, 12 ; J.
Skidmore, 5; B. Freeth, 11; R. B. Guest, 6 ;
B. Browning, 11; W, Macmillan, 3 ; E. Grove, 6 ;
S. Bennett, 9 ; M. Rollinson, 12 ; R. Thompson, 11 ;
G. Mantle, 11; G. Griffiths, 7; T. Fereday, 10 ;
T. Edwards, 5; D. Rollinson, 11; E. W. Pearson,
13; J. R. Whitfield, 11; and G. E. Russell, 11.
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