The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-15 00:00:00

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BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held at
the Board Room, yesterday, Mr. Granger in
the chair. There were also present :—Messrs,
Brooks, Rollin, ',Parkes, Pearsall, Ringley,
Snmers, Thompson, Higgs, Homer, Raybould,
J. Billingham, Giles, Penzer, Plant, Hall Fiddian
Rhodes, H. Billingham, Forrest, Guest, J.
Brooks, and Wood. Admitted into the house
14; discharged ; died 1; born 0 ; remaining.
801; corresponding week last year 336; out door
relit Kingswinford district £2l 15$ Od ; Stour.
bridge district .817 15s Id; Halesowen district,
£l5 14s 10d; nonresident paupers us Bd,
total £54 17s 1d against £6O 16s sd.
Mr. Dunn, Medical Officer, read his report
which showed there bad during the month 66
dentha and 107 births. The death rate were 30
per 1,000. There 'were 9 deaths from zymotic
fever, which still existed in the district.
Mr. Turner's report showed that the death
rste in Kingswinford district was 26 per 1,000
The sanitary coadition of Brockmoor was very
bad. There were two deaths from enteric
fever attributed this to an almost entire ahee nee
m
of good water, drainage, and ventilation, and
suggested that they apply to the South Staffori-
shire Water Works Company for supply of
water

DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.—At the Public Office,
yesterday, before Colonel Fletcher, Messrs. F.
Evers, and J. B. Cochrane, Mary Collins was
charged with being drunk and incapable, on the
13th. Police-constable Hutne proved the case.
Fined :is and costs.—Joseph Raybould was charged
with a similar offence on the:7th instant. Several
previous convictions were proved against the de-
fendant, and he was fined 108 and costs.

CHARGE OF PERMITTING DRIINKENNESS.—Henry
Pagett, landlord of the Angel Inn, Coventy-street,
was charged with permitting drunkenness in his
house, on the Bth inst. Mr. Perry defended. Po-
lice-constable Firth said that about half-past eight
o clock on the night in question he visited the do-
fendant's house in company with another officer.
He saw a man in the kitchen who was fast asleep,
and appeared drunk. He called the attention of
the landlady to it. The man was woke up and
lifted off the seat, and led to the door by two men.
On being loosed, the man fell down. He was very
drunk. The landlady said the man had only one
pint of ale in the house. Police-constable Yates
gave corroborative evidence. Mr. Perry addressed
the Bench in defence, and contended that it had
not been proved that defendant had any guilty
knowledge of drunkenness in his house, and that
defendant was not liable under the section of the
Act :upon which the charge was based. Ifsury
Pagett, the defendant, was called, and said he had
no knowledge of the man being in his house. The
man was a sleepy, heavy, slothful man. Anne
Winuall, servant, said that she supplied the man
with one pint of ale. He appeared quite sober, or
she should not have served him with the ale. Wil-
liam Capewell said he saw the man, who, he con-
sider,?d, was al,..ut "half-and-half f! in fact, he
should say he was sober. The Bench retires to
consider their verdict, when Colonel Fletcher re-
marked that there was some doubt in the case, and
should give defendant the benefit of it, and dis-
missed the case.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Albert Moody, aged 5 years,
son of Charles Moody, butcher, C'oalbournbrook,
was killed tinder the following circumstances. It
appears that on 'Wednesday the deceased was
playing in a field in the occupation of S. Mobber-
ley, where a horse was grazing, when the animal
ran towards the child, knocked it down, and tram-
pled upon it, and so injured the child that it died
the next day.—An inquest was held on the body,
yesterday, and a verdict of "Accidental death"
returned.