The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-05-31 00:00:00

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COMMISSION r:RS' MEETING.

The monthly meeting of this Board was held on
Menday last, Mr. Hughes in the chair. There
were also present Messrs. Kelley, Scott, Hicklin,
Woolley, lcke, Allsop, Stringer, Billingham,
and Grin. •

The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting,
which were confirmed.
REPORT OP TIIF FINA.NCE COMMITTEE.

The treasurer's balances on the several accounts
at this date are as follows Account,
bitlance due to treasurer £282 lOs 6d; Improve-
ment Account, balance due to treasuier .kll3 48
7d; Urban Sanitary Account, balance due from
treasurer .2141 4s 2d.—Your Committee having
examined a number of accounts, and finding them
correct, recommend them to be paid. Highway
Account, IEB2 19s Od ; Improvement Account, .298
48 2d; Urban Sanitary Authority, £3l 5s Od.
Cheques were drawn for the amounts on the
motion of Mr. Kelley, seconded by Mr. Stringer,
and carried.

REPORT OP TRH GEN/MAL PURPOSES COMMITTER.
MEDICAL OFPICER OP HEALTH'S REPORT.—N um-
ber of deaths registered in the township from April
21st to May 19th is 17, viz: —8 males and 9,femalea
Number of births registered 32, viz :-20 males and
12 females. Birth rate 40.9. The officer reports
the death-rate and birth-rate as slightly higher than
last month, but as there is no case of zytnotic disease,
the health of the town may be looked upon as per-
fectly satisfactory. There is no entry in the journal
of the Medical Officer of Health.

TOWN OFFICER'S REPORT. Nuisances brought
forward, 8; reported during the month, 67; total
76. Removed, old, 5; new, 64; remaining, 16.
Nigh` soil removed, 126 privies, 101 as pits, and 6
c ?ts pool, belonging to 207 housi s, have been emptied
and cleansed. Number of loads 268. The slaugh e.
houses, registered lgidging-houses, and bakehouse's,
are repred to ba in good sanitary condition.
FIRE EBCATE.—The Royal Society for the Pro-
t3ction of Life from Fire, having agreed to a grant of
one of the society's tire escapes.—/ our committee
appointed a sub-committee to consider ani report
to your Board, as to the most suitable position for
a station for the fire escape.—Your committee hav-
ing been informed that the Plicenix Fire Office have
offered their fire engine to your Board uncondition-
ally, your committee recommend that the offer
be accepted.
Tendtrs for emptying and cleansing privies and
ashpit, and cleansing and watering the streets.
Your commi:tee rport that tenders hve'been
rec Jived from Mr. George Horseley and Mr Alfred
Parkes. Mr. Horsley's tender for carrying out the
fir.,t contract, emptying and cleansing privies and
a,hpits for £4OO per annum. Mr. Alfred Parkes
tender is £360 per annum. Mr. Horsley's tender
to cleanse and water the streets for .2440 per
annum, or to execute both contracts for the sum of
.2, 640 for two years.—Your committee recommend
that Mr. Alfred Parkes's tender of ..f..360 per annum
for emptying and cleansing privies and ashpits,
and Mr. George Horsky's tender 'of £41.0 per
annum for cleansing and watering the streets be
accepted, each contract ta be for two years. The
chairman rioved that the irport read be received.
A discussion ensued as to thebest place for the
fire escape, and it was considered that it should be
kept in the same place am the fir 4 engine, and that
an additional pair of doors be put in the Market
Hall side. On the motion of the chairman,
seconded by Mr. Scott, a sub-committee was ap-
pointed to carry out the arrangements.
011 the Isaotiort of Mr, i3oott3 wended bp WI