The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-29 00:00:00

lIALESOWEN.

80,;A.-rinn THA.VELLERS --At the Police Court
on Tuesday. before E. Gem. E. B. Phillips, W.
B ssano, A. 'l'. Hickman, and J. Garratt, Esqs..
John Bevington, Short Cross, and Joseph Long-
man, Halesowen, were summoned for representing
themselves as bona-fide travellers, and thereby ob-
ta,ning ale from the Sun Inn, at Hunnington. Mr.
Shakespeare defended the landlord. The defend—
nuts, Bevington and Longman, on Sunday, May
9,b, went to the public house between 11 and 12
o'clock, and stating that they had come the re-
quired distance, were supplied with a pint of ale.
A sergeant of police happened to be passing at the
time, and seeing one of the men coming out, went
in and made enquiries, with the result that he
found that Bevington live! only 2/ miles from the
public-house and Longman 125 yards under the
required distance. Bevington and Longman were
ako charged with being found on license premises
during prohibited hours, and for each offence they
were fined 108 and cost.

SANITARY MATTERS AT BRIERLEY HILL,
A special meeting of the Brierley Hilll Local
Board was held on Monday Mr. R. Thompson pre-
siding, at which Dr. Cresswell, an inspector of the
Local c.iovernment Board, made a statement show-
ing the result of his sanitary inspection of the
tfoard's district. The first and most important
necessity was a regular and systematic inspection.
A.ttention was called to the unwholesome condi-
tion of some of the houses in Level Stre t and at
A.mbhcote Bank, and the inspector urged that
more
_att ntion should ba given to the prompt and
irequent cleansing of privies and ashpits. The
slaughter-houses should be registered and regularly
inspected, and the street sewers properly ventilated
and flushed. Ile approved of the proposed pro-
vision of a joint isolation hospital for Brierley
Hill and. Quarry Bank; and suggested the strict
carrying out of the Canal Boats Act; the better
notification of infectious disease ; the more com-
plete return of the cause of deaths by the registrar,
and the obtaining of information as to cases of
infectious disease from school managers and man-
agers of works. Mr. M. Rollinson, in the course of
discussion afterwards, pointed out that works of
sanitary improvement had in many places been pre-
vented by mining operations, which caused sub-
sidef:ces. Since the Board was formed eighteen
yeafs ago they had repaired and channelled twenty-
three streets. Only twenty-six deaths had occurred
in the last five years from fever, and unfit diet as
well as bad sanitary arrangements might have
afuch to do with the deaths from diarrhcea among
the pc;or. The people themselves were often to
blame in nut having the ashpits emptied with suf-
ficient frequency. The chairman said proper at-
tention should be given to Dr. :Cresswells' sugges-
tions. He also spoke of the delay caused by
mining operations, and mentioned that property
owners had had to contribute about £3,000 for the
•‘ribs and pillars" to prevent High Street going
down. Dr. Cresswell, replying to a vote of thanks,
testitied to what had been already done, and ac-
cepted it as an earnest of further sanitary im-
pros CILIIOIItB.

11AGLEY.
STUCK BALE —Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and Wool-
ride had at their sale on Monday a very large
oipniy of first-class sheep and lambs, a good entry
c:lttle, and a short supply of pigs. The entries
coin wised 644 sheep and lambs, 135 fat lambs. SO
tioad of cattle, 24 calves, and 120 pigs. There was
fuil attendance of butchers, farmers, and dealeis,
and prices were firm for fat stock. There was a
stro:ig demand for good ewes and lambs, but the
,tore rattle trade showed little improvement. Fat
oxe.l made as high as £l9 108, shorn tegs 61s 6u,
e+t cs 64s 6d, lambs 40s, calves 98s.