The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-29 00:00:00

FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.

The Clerk read the above report, from which
it appears that thero is due from the Treasurer,
on the High%ay account, £276 6s id, and on
the Improvement account, £721 18s 21. A
number of accounts were examined and ordered
to be paid; on the Highway account, £O5 Ss 6d.
and on the Improvement scoount, £263 Os 7d,
which included £202 is 7d for gas. The com-
mittee also reported that on the 31st December,
the sum of £2,000 would be due to Mr. F. T.
, Wilford, for loan borrowed when the new Im-
provement Act was missed.
Mr. Hughes said he believed it was one of the
worst luaus that had ever been borrowed in this
town, but he believed there was a aunt of £5OO
or £6OO in the Bank towards it. Ile concluded
by moving the adoption of the report, which
was seconded by Mr. Turney iind carried.

REPORT OF THE UENERAL PURPOSES COMUITTEE.
The lighting of H'est and Wheeler St 'Tett,
Be.; ty Ban h.—Your committee having inspected
these stmets, am o of opinion, that for the present
the public requirements will ha met by the re.
moval of two of the lamps on Beauty Bank, and
re-thing them opposite the said streets, and
have given directions accordingly.

Dr. llallards report on the sanitary condition
of stourbraye.—Your committee have held
special meeting, when this report was considered.
As the draft of your committees' report is in the
hands of a sub-committee, your committee beg
to report progress.

Mr. Whitirell's libensefiw selling P(troleuan
Your committee have decided to grant this

license, being satibiled with the place where the
same will be stored.

Report if the Medical Officer if Ilealth.--The
number of deaths registered in the township of
Stourbridge, from October 21st to November
21st, is 6, and the number of births registered
in that period, 23. The Medical Officer of
health states" That from personal enquiries
and investigation, I feel pleasure in reporting
the township of Stottrbril4e to continue de-
cidedly healthy, in comparison with other
places, only a few cases of scarlitina having de-
veloped themselves in one or two localities, and
these in a mild form, and progressing favour-
ably, not one fatal. There are no cases of fever
of any kind (so far as I can discover) existing in
the Hound Court or its vicinity, and I regret to
learn that false rumours to the contrary have
been propogated by some person or persons be-
cause such rumours are calculated to alarm the
minds of many inhabitants of the town, as well
as injurious to its reputation." The Medical
Officer of Health reports that the culvert grat-
ings in different parts of the township, are often
partially obstructed by accumulation of mud,
See., which ought not to be a:lowed. His at-
tention has been called to Mr. Turney's Glue
Manufaetury, as an offensive nuisance to the
residents of High Street, and at ites, " I have
carefully examined it, and am of opinion that
there is good ground for such complaint, arising
from the offal Ac., lying in the open vats pre-
vious to boiling, as well as to the steam and
tan fkom the boiling process, and
from the manure and subsequent residium on
the riverbank, This is, of course, when the
wind is north or north-east, but happens twice
or thrice a week. The visitation and report
book of the Medical Officer of Health, has been
laid before your committee. A case of o.er-
crowding on Beauty Bank is reported, and the
instructions given have been complied with.
The Inspector of Nuisances presented his re.
port as follows :—Nuisances remaining from
last report, 6; reported during the month, 56 ;
total, 62; removed, old, 3 ; new, 44 ; total, 47 ;
carried forwatd, 15.

&moral of Niyht Soil, de.—Daring the month
50 privies and 46 ash-pits, belonging to 104
houses, have been emptied and cleansed;
number of loads removed, 165. The lodging.
houses and slaughter-houses fare reported to be
in good sanitary condition, and, the bye-laws
and regulations oomplied with.
The chairman said he should like to know if
the proper notice had been given to Mr. Turney,
prior to that report having been made, relative
to his Glue Works, because, if not, it was most
unfair to bring the matter so prominently as
the Medical Officer had done.
Mr. Turney said that was the first word he
had heard about a nuisance existing at the Glue
Works, and he felt bound to object to the words
" ofiensive nuisance" in the report. The last
two years, the works had been under his entire
control, and he was quite sure that no person
ten yards away, could tell there were Glue
Works in existence.
Mr. Kelley thought that the Medical Officer
in making reports of that kind, should give the
name of the person who had reported the nui.
sauce. It was something like stabbing a man
in the dark, not to give him an opportunity of
answering them.
Mr. Allsop asked the chairman if the reports
would go forth to the public in that form.
The chairman: Certainly, but with the re-
marks added.
The report was then adopted.

REPORT OF THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

Your committee report that the sewering of
Wheeler Street is nearly completed, and advise
that West Street be cowered, and the suwariug
of Beauty Bank completed, by a short drain from
the corner of West Street, to the sower com-
mencing nearly opposite the road to St. Thoinaa's
Sehools.

Footpath in Talbot Street.—Your committee
advise that instructions be given to construct a
footway of a suitable width, from the corner of
the Talbot Yard to Victoria Passage.
Central Railway Station.—With regard to the
following resolution, passed at your last monthly
meeting, viz.," That the Clerk do write to the
Great Western Railway Company, and °minim
if any, and what stops have been taken to carry
, out the views of the Commissioners in regard
to the Central Station, as urged by them at the
interview on Friday, August nth,' your clock
wrote the following letter:—