The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-05-04 00:00:00

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COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

The usual monthly meeting of this body was
held in the Board Room, on Monday; Mr. Evers
in the chair. There were also present Messrs.
H ughes, Kelley, Woolley, Perkin, Moore, Stringer,
P agett, lull, Ilicklin, Parkes, Allsop, Billingham,
and Ick.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
FINANCE COMMITTEES' REPORT.

The Clerk read the Finance Committees' report
which showed the following balances: Highway
Aosount due from Treasurer to this date,
ifi79 7s lid; Improvement Account balance due
from Treasurer £260 Os id; Urban Sanitary Au-
thority Account balance due to Treasurer £174
1933 d.

Your committee have examined a number of
accounts and recommend that the following ac-
counts be paid :—Highway Account, £63 17s ;
Improvement Account, .223 9s 8d ; Urban
Sanitary Account, £34 15s 6d. The report in-
cluded £8 16s, part expenses of the late polling on
the road question and it was stated that it would
be much more.

Mr. Kelley thought that a statement of the
whole expenses ought to be put in before in order
that they might see what great expenses they
were putlto time after time merely by one per-
son.

The Clerk said that a full statement would be
furnished when the accounts had been received.
rhe report was adopted on the motion of Mr. H.
Billingham, seconded by Mr. Kelley.

142 PORT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTBZ.
MBDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH'S REPORT.—
Number of deaths registered from March W...
to April 20th is 22, viz., 10 males and 12 fetualLs
The death-rate is 28 per 1,000. The number Of
births registered in the same period is 3S, viz., 15
males and 13 females. The birth-rate is 35.6.
The Medical Officer reports the death-rate tide
month just past is higher than it has been a lo,ig
time. Of thfi deaths four have been caused by
scarlatina.
The Medical Officer's Journal was laid before
your committee. Premises at Portobello, Pepper
Hill, Glebe Lane, Whitehouse Entry, Brook
Street, and High Street have been visited and
instructions given for the removal of nuisances
found there and the instructions have been carried
out.

Towx OFFICER'S REPORT.—The number of
nnigAnees rpmaining from laot 111V111,11, 1 ,
reported during the month, 41; total, GO; re-
moved, old, 8; new, 28; remaining, 24. Night
Soil, 116 privies, 106 ashpits and 5 cess-
pools belonging to 221 houses have been emptied
and cleansed and the contents removed. Number
of loads, 226. The registered slaughter-hoses,
lodging-houses, and bake-houses have been
reported to be in good sanitary condition. The
extra expenses for cleansing the streets is .21. Os
Gd. Your committee advise that it be paid and
the system be continued for another menth.

OFFICE OF SURVEYOII.—Your committee having
considered the question referred to then i at your
last monthly meeting have resolved t 9 recommend
that no change be made at present, but that Mr.
Taylor should be asked to continue his services as
surveyor for th(l present at a salary of £4O per
year from the date of your next monthly meeting;
held on April 29th. The Commissioners con-
sidered that in a short time it would be al3solutey
necessary to make certain alterations in the work
of repairing and cleansing, and watering the roads
while the County Government Bill now before
Parliament would make an important change of
the management of the main roads of Stoarbridge.
They there recommend matters should stand for
the present as they were. The Commissioners
had thought it necessary to advise the Board to
pay Mr. Taylor (clerk) the sum of .215 per annum
for use of his office by the Officer of the Board
from Christmas last.

The Chairman moved that the report be received
which was seconded by Mr. Hughes.
After some discussion Mr. Hughes proposed
"That the Board pay £l5 for rent for the use of
Mr. Taylor's office, which was seconded an:l car-
ried.

Mr. Taylor expressed his willingnes3 to continue
to act as surveyor for the present in accordanc;
with the wish of the committee. Carried unani-
mously.
REPORT OF THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

PLANS OF NEw BUILDINGS.—PIans of new build-
ings to be built by Mr. Bennett and Mr. Cook
were laid before your corn rni+tee and pass.sd sub-
ject to their being in accordance with the bye-
laws. A plan for the alterations in the width of
Wollaston Street and one from one of the shops
occupied by Mr. Griffin and one void in High
Street and the width of Griffin,
Street has been
referred to a sub-committee to consider and re-
port.

- An application was received from Mr. Wilson
to drain the back premises of Mr. Kay, Worcester
Street, into the town drains was refused on the
ground that the town drains will have to be
altered at an early date.
Proposed by Mr. All3op, seconded by Mr_ Perks,
that the report of the Improvement Committee be
adopted. Carried unanimously.
Mn. WOOLLEY'S PLANS.—The plans having been
rejected by the Improvement Committee on
account of the projecting windows. It was
rosolved on the motion of Mr. Kelley, seconded
by Mr. Perkin, "That the plans be forwarded to
Mr. Woolley with the request that he forward an
amended plan to the Improvement Committee.
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An invitation to the Conference at the ...-Society
of Arts on the national water supply and on
health and sewage was read to the Board by the
Clerk.

The Commissioners did not think it necessary
to send a deputation to the conference, but Mr.
H. BiHingham said he should in all probability
be in London at the time it was held and he might
attend it.