The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-28 00:00:00

IMPORTANT_ SPECIAL

N ESTI NG OF TIM

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

On Saturday morning at 11 o'clock an extraordinary
meeting the 11.ard of Guardians was held at
the Poole Lipkin, when the following gentlemen were
present:— Meson. R. Slade (Chairman). (L. A. Adam.,
IW. Buckley, J. Hayman. and 0. Curtis. The
medical Milder of the Lytohett di.triat (Dr. A. P.
Hamiltm) and the Cle.k to the B bard (11r. James
rilade,) were pre.ent. The Clerk said the meeting had
been called fur the pnrpo-eof ennsid• ring a letter that
had been received from the melieal department of the
Ptivy Cnuoc.l, relative to the deaths from PlWriatitle at
Lytehett and the present sanitary nor.dition of that
path& ; the letter WS4 an frillows :
Ifed.cal Department, Pery Council, London,
4rene 214. 1870.

Sly,—! am desired hi the Lords of ILW Council lordly to
your letter of the 17th inst ,to ray that your Board, having
taken no action under sections 22 to 211 of the Sanitary .107,
when five deaths from scarlatina have occurred in a trawler of
the year, In • po,olation of little more than 2,000, appears to
hive very scnou•iy tleglect.l its duty, and I am to ',pest
that I may he Wormed without loss of time, what is the
present date of boati of the Ls tchett sub-dostrict, cepecialiy
as to scarlatina, col that I may be 1.1111'41,A with a rep vt on
lle .anitary cmditioa by one of Use Medical °Meer. cur
Boarl. —I am, vr, your "Wien( servant. JOBS SIMON.
James Slwle, Clerk to the Board of Guardians, Poole.
In reel, t• to CH•11111• •, Dr. Ilmnilron Meld that
the fever cases were now much better; seerl.tina broke
out in an alarming manner in the oold weather, an in
the first quarter three or four persms died from the
rid tenure, but not five as stated in the letter from the
Medical Bard of the Privy Council. The death were
Elisabeth r 'histopher,Jene Ch.ffey. William Christopher
and John S. Samson. The last flied from tho sub.. quest
effects of fever. The Chairman 'Awl if there was not
anothereasi.? Dr. Hamilton: Not in th-firet qnarter of
the year! there were two deathe in the second quarter,
making a loisi of six for the half year out of • impale.
tion of 2,000; 11- (Dr. Hamilton) did not °wielder this
alarming and he believed Dr. Crabb bsd amiss of fever at
Lytchett at the early part of the year. Samson, family
had the fever but only one diet, ant it was aurorieing
thot there were not more, for they were congregated
durint illness in a room only about seven feet rquere.
In some ot,,er oases the perish patients wet,. very poor
and miserably pr..vided for. The Clerk (%llr. Slate)
aehl by referring to the old hooks of he Union he had
foils,' that in the parish of Perkstone, when the popula-
tion sr VI only 1,134 in 1866, there were eight deaths in
two month%

Mr. G. CURTIS said in the parish of St. James' the
fever Ir+.4 very had some time IMO. end although the
Privy Coatud knew it, they book no notice of the
matter ea they had done now in ref. rence to Lytchett.
Dr. HAMILT.I,I•aid it woe rematkable that the cases
had happened in the cold season of the year.
Mr. J. lIATNAN said the attention of the guardians
had not been called to Cie fever cases at Lytchett ; no
report had ...en made to them.
Dr. HANILTM said that he made a weekly report in
the books id the Guardians, u the medical book on the
tilde would show. _

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Mr. G. CURTIS saul the only thing they could do was
to iialt Dr. Howl ion to furnish the Hoard with a report.
He w o'd theref, re propose the following reloolation
'T het Dr. Hamilton be r. qnired to make a report of
to presant state of health of tho sub-d;strist of
iltsi.ett, and also as to its standing condition, to this
Board as early as poss•ble."
Mr. J. W. &OCCULT seconded the resolution ebb&
was carried sum out_ .

Hr. H onsidered it would he as well for the
Clerk of the Beard to inform the Piivy email that
they had held • *posed meeting for the purpose of sou-
nd-rine the matter.
One or two (I the Onardiansistated that they believed
some person Inu•t hove communicated with the Poor
Law Board on the !subject of the epidemic, and some
one suggested that it might have been the g-ntlem•n
who took • farm at Lytaneit on • lease and who bed
gone away immediately he knew the fever was in the
Parish. It is sati.factory for the public to know thet
the cases of (seer are now but few in number, and we
hope shortly to hear that there is not • single case left
in the berg- parish. Whilst upon this subject we would
c•utinn the inh•bitante of tenements in all parts of the
It rough of Poole to adopt every precaution against
fever ; if every occupier would only use daily a bucket
of water and a broom near their own dwellings it would
be found beneficial, and doting the warm westhet the
.av tiger's csrt should perainholate thi town daily,
seed" excepted ;we respectfully call the attentlon
of the local surveyors to thesuoject, believing that they
led do all in their power to promote the selubrity of
the neighbearhone.

DREADFUL ItAILW AY ACOIDENT.
On Nl..ndsy morning an excursion train left Leeds,
Bradford, Helder, and York for London, consisting
of 23 carriages, carrying between them 359 passen-
ger., and it a. rive 3 duly in town at 8.30 a.m., and
wasdespwed duly on its return at 9.20 p.m. With-
in a short distance of Newark it met • goods train
coming on the adjoining line. At that very instant
the axle of a goods waggon snapped,and that waggon
was thrown off the upend on the down line,dragging
with it all the waggons behind it. Into this mass,
thus instantaneously piled up in front of it, the ex-
cursion train dashed at full speed, and with results
horribly destructive. The ponderous engine was
tossed clest off both rails by the shock, while the
carriages immediately following it were thrown one
upon another, the three foremost being shattered to
pieces. The driver was killed on the spot; his fire-
man survived but • very short time. Fourteen
passenger. also perished on the instant,sod two have
died sinoe. Twenty were seriously injured. It was
more than two hours before the wounded
were taken from the broken carriages. A
husband, crushed under one of them lay for a
hour and • half by the side of his wife, who was
killed on the spot. A woman with both of her
legs broken was • still longer time in the midst of
the debris, with her dead husband and injured
baby ; atar her removal she died, and the baby was
left an orphan. But few of the passengers escaped
unhurt. Many of the dead and injured were fast
among the wreck for hours, atact in their efforta to
relieve them by trying to lift up one po:tion of the
superincumbent debris, the workers found that they
were either pressing it on the other parts of the
sufferers' bodies, or upon some other victim of the
catastrophe.
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The groans of the wounded and dyingrang through
the air,and in the dim light of morning the pas.engere
ran to an fro, some bloeding and bruised, as if dis•
treated. Scores were wandering about, some of
whom bad been driven violently against the carriage,
others cut with flying (memento of slams or splinters
of aroken doors end car sides. One woman pleaded
piteously with the Purge ins that they would
amputate her lads, which were transfixed by the
broken timbers. Railway officials, surgeons, and
people from Newark did everything possible to
relieve the wounded.

The total number of persons kill4d an injuredaby thlq
fearful disaster amounts to 115-18 billed and 97
injured. Captain Tyler attended 'be toquest on behalf
of the Board of Trade. The evidence sowed tliat the
axleo were examined at Doncaster and R-tford. The
carriage of whieh the axle broke was delivered to the
kiadcheater, Sheffield, and Lmcoln company in 1852. and
between June, 1869, and December last was repaired
27 tumes, ant had been running ever Mane. It was
transferred to the Great Northern hitt befors the &eel.
dent. The fiaw cJuld not be discovered by ordinary
examination.

Tag °Rocca or Tiles Pagejjjit is impor•
tent that the great changes +bleb are taking place in
trade shou'd not be lost eight of, and perhaps none are
more worthy of attention than those oonnected with
the business of the grocer. Formerly it was customary
for the grocer to restrict bis trade to two or three
articles, whereas hi, business now assumes the cha-
racter of a general store or claret for various large house.
whose goods have obtained a world-wide celebrity.
Take such instances as rnay be found now in nearly
every grosser's list, viz., Iliintley and Palmer's Bissuits,
Cream and Blackwell's Pickles, Colman's Mustard,
Bass and Allsopp's Ales, W. and A. o,lbel's Wince
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