The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-09-06 00:00:00

KrDDERAIINSTEIt TOWN COUNCIL.

• The Mayor (Mr D. W. Goodwin) pr ilei at
monthly meeting the Council. •
A. proposition- by the Drainage Coinwittee to -th(
effect that no en ,r.fe should be male fur water•use6
for gartkens ;o private dwelling houses was ev.arau-
ally carried. •
u. Corbet,-;he.medical officer of healti-:, re
por;e&that there had been 51 births in the borougi
during the past month, asngainst 6'2 in the corr.'s:
ponding pariod laq year. The deaths in ths rntn
had been 57, or 29 058 in the thuasand, agains. 19,
c.r 9.633 in the ittou'aud in thecorr spending. ra.alih
of i4st yet-lx: :Nineteen or the deaths hat arisn
fi.otn dlarrh(2•l (almost cxcltively aunin;st children

quitter five ye o s ot age,
Mr. Col be also read a -611;p1.mentary report,
whica•c-ated,tha*. since he had written hia ordinary
re,.ort there rd beau a sudden outz:pre lk typh,itt
fever It was not conflued to any part of the t,w!l_,
ea...eis having appcare lin ev,ry diro.!tion. He was_
preparet to st-ite tie origin of the outure..3,
bid .1.,./dug at the t. t,as I:uoWtt to hartAeli, he
was inclined t,r put It down to "s.:wer
recOve.nentiecl. tn,t, tht sewt” a shod ibe comtiii
and trtely fluihe I aid dishifee ants used. lie also
thougllt jedvisaht, that ilisiuteetartts shAtid be
sei in it.e water cart 4, and that tire stnitary in
6.--ectur sh all 'visit every cmo, an; sea that the
p.ople were fr ely sUppli-d with iisinfectants, and
a se that tlio house and other di ains were p,rfectl;
t.epped, and that there were no accumulatiolis of
deaurnpating or Yege.a'ule inattt.r. The town water
shoulu and lastly the injections hospi.
tit should be open,d free tor ell oases wiliiug to go
tare OE persons who were not actually pirup,frs.
tie recommended a case of typhus fever which ha.t
occurred' in Blaclikell Street, and which was of a
highly (lenge ous Lind infectious nature, should be at
once i-olated, and the house in which it had °c-
onned closed 10c amie time. Toe ease of iyphus
was imported from liiirminglia,m.
the Ida) or moved the rece;tion of the vport,
and in (long so ?•aitl tl.at he had hien looking over
repots and had a en that there was a great
increase in the death-rate everywhere duriug tl.e
put month. l'he death-rata at Kidde:minste.. w •ti
"=rY low indeed compared with that of inaLy
ing 29 in tile thousand. There was no reason fir
any greet ats.tm in constquenc, of the 11,tle outbreak
0:. typhoiii lever.
Grusv.ator re:Dart:v.l- that the 13,rOugh Sur-
veyer. ought ts be " able to inform th,in. whether
• ere had bcen any neglect in flushing the sewers.
Mr. Cootnber, the borough Surveyor. said there
had been more ilushingthe sewet ti done this summer
than ever had been the ease previously.
Aldermen Howe G.reen seconded the Mayor's
propositioa, which was carried.
Alderman Willis was very glad the Mayor imad
expressed himself ad he had. They all knew that
the small-pox scare proved a rare ;ellen cow for the
doctors, and when the scare wds over the cow died.
It was decided that the Council should resolVe hell(
hit° a committee to deal with the case.
In reply to a question from Mr. Greaves respect-
ing the opening out of Franchise Street, Mr. Aler-
ring said he hoped at the next meeting of the Coun-
cil to give a favourable answer to Mr. Greaves.