The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-17 00:00:00

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'to pr.'c o 'ed with, unless plans were first subi
roit,ed. It wag mentioned that complaints had
been mule rom time to time about the condition of
the rod, and it was resolved to use Rowley rag on
the roads as far as we pra,ticable.
The Survovnr r ported that during the month be
had ,T n d Id on the roads, and the
outtitan,ling tv2ctint9 were £lO. A cheque for £3O
was re4uire:.l to int et mate It expenditure.
The report was adopted.

KIDDERMINSTER TOWN COUNCIL.
ThP Mayor (Mr. D. W. Goodwin) presided at the
monthly meeting of the Council on Wednesday,
and stated that he had received a communication

from Miss Lydia Becker, Secretary of the National
Society for the Promotion of Women's Suffrage,
asking the Corporation to sign a petition in favour
of the extention of the Parliamentary franchise to
women householders.

Mr. Herring Moved that the petition should be
signed.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Bytheway,
and carried, the only dissentient being Mr. Potter.

The report of tlie Drainage and Waterworks
Committee, which was taken as read, rocomaaaandei

the payment of different accounts amounting
altogether to £l3l 10s 24., and also that at the
expiration of the current rate, the rate for water
supply to public houses where brewing is not
carried on should be reduced to £5 per cent. on-
the ratable value, and the charge to public-houses
where brewing is carried on to £7 1N per cent.
The report was adopted, on the motion of Alder-
man Binnian, seconded by Alderman Howe
Green.

Thb report of the Improvement Committee recom.
mended the paytnent of different sums on the
Streets Improvement Loan account, amounting to
£657 Bs. _ _

Mr. Herring, in moving its adoption, sated that
it was only int"nded to lease the retail market for
one year, because if they could get another loan
they meant to increase it size, and to cover the
whole of it. He moved the adoption of the report.
This was seconded by Mr. Chadwick, and
adopted.
Mr. D. Corbet, Medical officer of Health, re-
ported that the number of births during the past
month had been 59 as against 68 in the correspond-
ing month last year. The deaths for the same
pericd had been 26, or 13.2 in the 1,000, against
43. or 21'9 in the 1,000 for the corresponding
month. Mr. Corbet went on to say that there
having been some doubt in the minds of the com-
mittee as to whether they had the power to close
the schools when infectious diseases were prevalent,
I he wrote to the Local Government Board upon the
matter, and they informed him that Section 98 of
the new Code of Regulations of the Education lle•

partment provided, as regarded the public element-
ary schools, that the managers should comply with
any notice of the Sanitary Authority of the district
in which the school was situated requiring them
for a specified time, with a view of preventing the
spre !cl of disease, either to close the school or to
exclude any scholars, subject to an appeal to the
Department, if the managers considered the notice
to be unreasonable. In any case where infectious
disease was prevalent in a district the Sanitary
Authority should be advised by their medical officer
of health whether the object of preventing the
spread of infection might be best attained by the
closing of any particular schools, or by the exclusion
from school oi ...hildren from houses and particular
lecalities known to be infected He (Mr. Corbet)
drew attention to that subject, because the Sch ol
Board duriug the middle of the late pldemic of
small-p )x in the town openod their schools.
The , Mayor remarked upon the lowness of the
death rate.
Mr. Jeffries said he should like to know how they
stood regarding the small-pox. There was one cud
at the hospital for about five or six weeks, This
was very expensive. Ho was very much surprised
at the last committee meeting to find that there wa&
another child at the hospital suffering from the
small, pox. It seemed to him to be endless. He
should like to ask Mr. Corbet if he had a small
supply of that sort to keep the institution at work.
Alderman Willis (a member of the School Board)
said he was sorry the doctor had gone out of the
way to throw a pill. box at the School Board after
they had closed the schools for a fortnight. It was
the old story of trying to please everybody. They
closed the schools in accordance with an order frent
the Sanitary Authority, and they were told they
would be doing more to spread the disease by leav-
ing the children playing about in the streets than
if they had them all at school.
The report was received.
Mr. Jeffties then proposed the adoption of the
report of the Sanitary Committee, which contained,
among other items, a recommendation for the pay'
ment of .ell its Id on account of nurses' wage.
and other expenses in connection with the Wadi'
ous Hospital for the past month. Mr. Herring
seconded the motion, and said the medical officer
who had full charge of the hospital should do all
within his power to keep down the expenses.
Mr. Corbet said the only extra experse entailed
was in the maintenance of the mother of the child
who was ill,

THE FOREIGN IRON TRADE.
There is no sensible improvement in the iron
markets of the Continent. The Austrian market
is not nearly so brisk as it has been lately. Within
the last few weeks a slight reaction has made itself
felt, due, chiefly, to the less favourable position of
sugar refineries, the uncertainty respecting the
harvest, and slackness in the building trade. Buyers
of pig-iron are very reserved, and there are more
offers than sales; finished iron is also less active+ ,
and prices for both commodities are weaker. If it
were not for the protection enjoyed by Austrian
manufacturers through a. pohibitive customs tarifP. '
many of them would now have to complain of want -
of work. The statistics of the Belgian imports and
exports of iron and steal during the first three
months of this year indicate the crisis through
which the Belgian iron trade is passing. On the
whole, the growth in exports appears to have been
arrested arrested for the time, there being a de-
aided decrease in the quantities of pi-iron and
steel exported, as compared with previous years+ _ •
whilst the exports of manufactured iron have been
only slightly augumented. The total experts of
iron and ste .1 from Belgium during the first three
months of 1884 were 83,285, against 87,320 tons is
1883, and 83,892 tons in 1882. The imports wire
45,934, 56,718, and 60,501 tons respectively. The
imports of iron ore during the same period of 1884
were 378,136 tons, against 357,381 tons in 1883+
and 285,860 tons in 1882. Notwithstanding the
unfavourable nature of the statistics, the Belgian
iron market is not weaker. The iroumasters of the
Nord, at their meeting at Maubeuge, on May 10,
have raised the price of manufactured iron 6 fr.
per ton, to 155 fr. This step will probably not be
without effect upon the Paris market, where bare
may still be had at 160 fr., but which this step of
the forgemasters' may send up to 195 fr. There is
more activity in the German iron market, where
bar iron has benefited to the extent of 5 marks per
ton by the greater activity prevailing in finished
iron; pig-iron continuing depressed. The defeat of
the Tariff Bill has produced no effect on the iron
marketi of the United States. Large holders of
pig-iron expect renewed demand and higher prices
in the autumn owing to the decreased stocks.
Scotch pig-iron has sold with difficulty during the
past week at New York, ~whilst the position of
American pig has remained unchanged. Iron

A recent writer in ou- local papers has wisely
observed that "one of theiollies of the age is to but
dear Wines and Spirits." Another folly is to
suppose that buying from those who make the
argeit return of duty is buying them in the
cheapest market. The Merchant who pats duty
upon thousands of gallons pays in exact proportion
to the retailer clearing a single cask. A great profit
must be gained to cover enormous expenses of large
business premises, cost of advertising, and an
allowance of profit to the Agent, greater in
many instances than taken by them in the respect-
able Merchant. To buy cheap is to buy where but
one profit is made.. and we cannot better illustrate
our argument than by pointing out the way in
hien our townsmen, Messrs. J. Rutland and Son, of
63, High-st, have opened up the trade. We have
no hesitation in saying that 25 per cent, is now
saved by their bringing the producer and the con-
,umer together, over the prices paid a few years
ago, and a trial will fully bear out our assertions
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