The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-02 00:00:00

REPORT OFTHE GENERAL PURPOSES
COMMITTEE.

yoor Committee report flint from the 27th January b.
the dote of your C.,oimittee's lost special meetiog. th,
Officer of Health boa reported eleven sages or oululi-pis
in the townohip 4 btourbridge. Of these, one hos ter-
minated fatally. Our is reported as of the confluent
character, and the pstient is very ill. All the other csses
are reported either as convalescent or improving. the
Officer of Health baying reported the existence of cm.
sauces in several localities, your Committee have instruc-
ted the Inspector of Nuisances to give the necessary
notices to cause the same to be removed without further

delay.
"Your Committee have also instructed your Clerk to
prepare and issue notices to occupiers, calling their &Men.
tiou to the necessity of cleansing their premises and the
removal of all nuisances, and to such other matters as in
a sanitary point of view should be attended to.
The Officer of Health having reported the necessity of
a drain on Beauty Bank, sufficient, not only for the sur-
face drainage but also for house drainage in that locality,
your Committee recommend that your Board do cause a
sewer or drain to be laid down along Beauty Bank, and
advise that instructions be gives to the Improvement
Committee to execute the required work with as little
deter as possible.
Your Committee have called the attention of the Im-
provement Committee to the necessity of channeling
and levelling Park-street West, Beauty Benk.
A letter has been received Brom the Local Government
Board of the 7th Mat, stating that the Board declines
giving its sanction to the Commissioners patting in force
the I.oth sec. of the Sanitary Act, 1868, with reference
to the temporary supply of medicine and medical attend-
ance to patients above:the pauper class. At the same
tune the Board requests to be informed what steps the
Commissioners intend taking to provide Hospital accom-
modation for non-pauper patients. Your Committee
have not yet considered it necessary to recommend your
Board to provide the accommodation referred to.
With regard to petroleum licenses, your Commith e
have prepared and caused to be printed a aumbar of con-
ditions which they have judged necessary for the sate
keeping of petroleum. The granting of these hem., s
is deferred until Wednesday next, to enable the Inspee•
tor (Mr. Dorricutt) to make a special report on each case
as to the position and character of the premises proposed
to be used for storing the article in question.
Your Committee have called the attention of Mr.
Whittaker to the neaessity of a more effectual cleansing
of the streets, particularly after the Saturday night mar-
ket, and he has assured your Clerk that for the future the
condition contained in his agreement referring to that
particular matter shall receive his attention.
The gas account for 1871 has been filed with your
' Clerk, and it now laid before yen.
Your Committee have to report that the lease of the
. market tells expires on the Slat day of March next, and
they recommend that the Commissioners should consider
, the advisability of keeping the tolls of the markets and
Corn Exchange in their own hands.

Mr. Digbugs moved the adoption of the re.
port. He had special pleuure in alluding to
the appointment of a public medical officer, and
to the prompt steps that had been taken by him
In draind with the epidemic of small-pox, which
woo shown to be on the decrease. Alluding to
the committee's recommendation in connection
with the markettolls, he said he thought the foots
laid before them by Mr. Pena showed the nee's-
sity for the recommendation of the committee.
This was seconded by Mr. Hughes, and car-
red unanimously.
After some desultory conversation, it was pro-
posed by Mn. Blunsom, and seconded by Mr.
Stringer:—" That the General Purposes Coin.
mittee be requested to consider and report to a
special meeting of this Board as to what arrange.
ments can be made for the future management
of the Corn Exchange as a Corn Market, and
to consider what arrangements will be necessary
consequent on the Commissioners keeping the
tolls in their own hands.
Dr. Campbell's book of the health of the par.
Mb showed that from the 27th January to the
24th February, there had been four coos of
sickness, In the corresponding period of last