The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-02 00:00:00

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COMMISSIONbRS' MEETING.

The usual monthly meeting of this body was
held in the Board Room, on Monday; Mx..C. Evers
in the chair. There were also present Messrs.
Hughes, Kelley, Hicklin, Mills, Scott, Stringer,
Woolley, Allsop, Moore, Pagett, and Parkes.
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
Account due from Treasurer to this date,
£231 6s Od ; Improvement Acctunt balance due
from Treasurer .229 16s 6d ; Urban Sanitary Au-
thority Account balance due to Treasurer £395
14s 9d. •

Your committee have examined a number of
accounts and recommend that the following ac-
counts be paid :—llighwayeAccount, £174 17s 3d;
Improvement Account, £23 6s 7d; 'Urban
Sanitary Account, £3B 7s 6d.
Mr. Hughes moved, that the accounts be re-
ceived.

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Proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Mr.
Hughes that the sum of £3OO be transferred
from the Highway Account to the Urban Sanitary
Account. Carried. •

REPORT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.
• FIRE Escerz AND EEEL FOR liosm.—Your com-
mittee advise that the • ladder constructed on a
particnlar principle be procured for use in case of
lire, and that the wheels of the present fire escape
be used in the construction of a reel for the fire
hose.

.MEDICAL 0 PRICER .OF HEALTH'S REPORT.—
Number of deaths regi6tered from January 17
to February 16 is 15, viz., 8 males and 7 females.
The death-rate is 19 per /,000. Number of births
rpgistered in the saw paiod is 34, viz., 14 wales
and 20 females. Th.o birth-rate is 424.- per
1,000. - • Tho birth tu d cleat.n•rates. are both
slightly in excess of -.lad Inout!r. Three deaths
.were cawsed by searlet f

The Medical a,cs Joi:rnai was laid before
your committee. lris in Uhuwh btreet,
High Street, and Biriningiald 'Street have been
visited and inst; uctjons given for the removal of
nuisances found there..
TOWN OFFICER'S ROf:T.—The number of
Nuisances remaining iioa last month, - 20;
reported during the month, 31; total, ;
_re-
moved, old, 3/; rem:Lining, 17. Removal of
Night Soil, 84 privies, 3 shpits, and 2 cess-
pools belonging to IZ2 houses have been emptied
and cleansed and the coilt,!ntd removed.. -Number
of loads, 175. The registered slaughtv.houses
and lodging-houses have been reported to be in
good sanitary condition: The Officer laid before
the committee a detailed account of the extra
cleansing of streets formerly Turnpike Roads,
amounting to X 8 3s, and which sum your corn-
-mittee recommend to be paid and the present
system continue until the date of your next Meet-
ingit
The report was adopted,
REPORT OP THE iMPROVENENT COMMITTEE.
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Plans for four houses to be built in the Gig
Mill Road for Mr. Job Cooke, awl four houses
near Glebe Lane for Mrs. Fisher were eiaminsd
by your committee, and passed subject to their
being in accordance with the bye-laws. The
plans of the front of Mr. Perks's slap') in High
Street were laid before your committee. As the
plan showed that the window light for the base-
ment storey extended three inches beyond the
original line of the building your committee were
unable to sanction it. A proposal for bringing
out tho line of palisading proposed to be
erected in front of the new building belonging to
Mr._ S A. Brooks in Church Street beyond the
line as agreed to on August 2uch was laid before
your committee. Your con, eittee saw no reason
for alLring the line as agreed to.
Mr. Hughes moved that the motion be received,
and Mr. .Allsop seconded it.
Mr. Stringer said he wished to say a few words
in refcrence to Mr; S. A.,. Brooks's new building.
He considered it was an ,ornament to the town
and he would pay considerable rates. He under-
stood that Mr. Brooks asked for two inches of
land so that he might put down the palisades
straight, but although he asked for the two inches
in one place he had given up many inches to the
town in other places and he would respectfUlly ask
the Improvement Committee to re-consider.the
question. The same thing applied. to Mr. Henry
Perks. He hadput up some very fine buildings
which were an Ornament to- the town and he
wished to put down some glass to light his under-
ground 'kitchen. If it was possible to grant the
application of Mr. Brooks and Mr. Perks he
thought they'should do it.
Mr. Hughes objected to make any alteration.
The whole matter had been well considered and he
did not see any reason for altering the present
decision. It put him in mind of what Sir Wilfrid
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