The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-05 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBS.ERVITt.
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COMMISSIONERS' dEETING.

The monthly meeting of this body was held in 1.1'3
Board Room, on Monday last, Mr. Hughes in the
chair. There were also present Messrs. Kelley,
Perkin, Hicklin, Woolley, Allsop, ?mere, Edwards,
Stringer, Ick, and Scott.
The minutes of the last meethg were read and
confirmed.

Figerres Corairrum—i-Yottr Committee report
that the Treasurer's balances on the several accounts
to this date to be as follow, v :—Highway Account ,
due to Treasurer, to this date, £B7 5s Id; Im •
provement Account balance the from treasurer to this
date, £162 9s Od ; Urban kanitary Authority due
from Treasurer £215 Os 6d. YouiCommittee recom-
mend the following accounts to bo paid; Highway
Account, £285 4s 7d; Improvemett Account, .484 515
4d; Urban Sanitary Authority, £33 5s 11d. One of
the items being £l2l 17s Bd paid to the Guardians
for stones, for repairing main zeds. In the Im-
provement Accounts, one item wa3 to Messrs. Freer
and Perry of £56 8s 6d for costs, and in the Urban
Sanitary Authority Account, £2; is Sd paid to Mr. '
Horseley.
Your Committee gave instructions to the rate-
collector to summons all defaulters whose rates are
n3t paid. The estimates for the Improvement,
Highway, and Sanitary Rates, vere laid before the
committee Your Committee advise an Im-
provement Rate of 10d in the pound, a Highway
Rate of 7d in the pound, and s General District
Rate of 6cl in the pound. The two former rates to
be for the half-year ending September 30th, 1879,
and the latter for the year endiag March 25th, 1880.
Mr. Edwards moved that thereport be received.
Estimate for Highway -Eat, of sums required
under the 73rd section of-the Stourbridge Improve-
ment Act, 1866, for the half-year ending September
29th,.1879. Sum required, £lB7 9s 7d. Assets:—
Amount of rate at 7d in the pound on £24,548 is ld,
estimated to produce £6OO OsOd ; arrears of rate un-
collected, £66 16s 3d; total £666 16s 3d. Cheques
ordered March 31st, £285 4B 7d; balance due from
treasurer March 25th, 1879, £B7 5s 7d; £197 19s Od ;
total £468 17s 3d.

Estimate for Improvement Rate, of sums required
for the half-year ending September 29th, 1879.
Sum required, £BB2 lOs lid. Assets :—Due from
treasurer, March 25th, £ll2 9s Od ; less cheques
ordered March 31st, £B4 Ss 4d; total £7B 3s 8d;
market tolls, 6 mouths, £250 Os Od ; arrears of rates
uncollected, £53 12s ld ; an Improvement Rate, at
10d in the pound on £19,327 17s 10d, estimated to
produce £650 Os Od ; total £lO3l 15s 9d.
Estimate for General District Rate, of sums re-
quired for the year ending March 25th, 1880. Sum
quired, £560 les Od. Assets :—Balance due from
treasurer, £215 Os 6d ; chelues ordered, £32 5s l id;
total £lB2 14s 7d; arrears of ree uncollected £62
Is 3i ; a General District Rate at 6d in the pound
on £24,508 Is Id, estimated to produce £540 Os Od ;
total £784 15s 10d.
• REPORT OF THE GENERIL PunPosns COMMITTER.
—MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH'S REPORT.—IN um-
ber of deaths registered inthe township from Febru-
ary 17th to March 24th is 22, viz : —ll males and
11 females. Death rate 28.1. The high death-rate
is caused by the month being made up of five weeks,
and the weather, 13 deaths out of 22 being from long
disease. Number of births registered 44, viz :-27
males and 17 females. Birth rate 53.3. A house
in the Round Court infected with dyptheria has been
ordered to be cleansed and lime-washed, which has
been done.

Towx OFFICER'S REPORT. Nuisances brought
for ward, 7; reported during the month, 35; total,
42. Removed, old, 6; new, 32; remaining, 10.
Night soil removed, 141 privies, 112 ash pits, and 1
cess pool, belonging to 193 houses, have been emptied
and cleansed. The slaughter-houses and lodging-
houses are reported to be in good sanitary condition.
The extra work done to the roads formerly turnpike
roads amounted to £6 2s 6d. The committee advise

that amount be paid to Mr. Horsley, and, -further,
that the same system of employing, and cleansing
privies and ash-pits, and the cleansing and watering
the streets, be carried on to the next meeting.
Letters were laid before your committee, from the
Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire
respecting the Escape; from the Stourbridge Gas
Light Company, respecting the price of gas; from
Mr. Thomas Wall, hon. sec. to the Fire Brigade,
respecting the fire hose. A number of persons
applied kit petroleum licenses, which were granted.
tA discussion ensued as to the best means of
cleaning the streets repairing roads, removing night
soil, and it was ultimately agreed to form a special
committee to arrange the matter.