The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.

Tha usual weekly meeting of the members of this
committee was held yesterday in the Council-chamber,
Mr. Alderman Dover was in the chair ; the other gentle-
men present were Messrs. Beloe, Haydock, Crellin, Steel,
Ridley, and Bowring.
The medical officer of health reported that the incle-
mency of the weather during the past and a portion of
the previous week had caused a considerable increase in
the mortality of the borough, which was greater than in
any week of the preceding nine months. The deaths
registered (which in the second week of December were
166, and in the subsequent week 206) rose last week to
245, being 6 more than the actual average of the same
week of the preceding ten years ; but after correction for
increase of population, the deaths were 23 below the
average. Of the 245 deaths, 184 were in the parish and
61 in the out-townships. Diseases of the lungs, with
consumption, caused 127 deaths, more than one-half of
the entire mortality, 50 more than in the previous week,
and 38 above the average of the same week of former
years. The deaths were more numerous than in any
week, with one exception, since the severe spring of 1855.
From zymotic diseases the deaths were 36, or one-half
the average ; of these there were—from measles, 10 ;
diarrhoea, &c., 8 ; typhus, 5; croup, 5 ; hooping cough,
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The proportion of deaths above the age of sixty was
greater than usual; the number which in the four weeks
preceding averaged 24, was last week 43. The mean
temperature of the week was 27 4-10ths degrees, the
average of the same week of former years being 40 7-10ths.
It was lower than in any week previously recorded, and
one degree less than that of the coldest week of February,
1855. On Christmas Day the mean temperature was
more than 21 degrees below the average. The highest
temperature, 33 1-10th degrees, was on Sunday, and the
lowest, 16 2-10ths degrees, on Monday eight.
The Borough Engineer Building Surveyor and Inspec-
tor of Nuisances reported various particulars of the
operations in their several departments during the week,
from which it appeared that 73 nuisances complained of
by inhabitants had been inspected and means taken to
remedy them ; 1,149 houses in the unhealthiest districts,
containing 3,450 apartments, and 825 cellars had been
put under examination, with the view of improving
their sanitary condition.
There being no other business to dispose of the com-
mittee soon after rose.

The Lord Bishop of Mauritius will this evening
deliver a lecture, in Hope-hall, on missionary work,
especially in that part of the world, in which his diocese
is situated.. The Rev. A. Campbell, rector of Liverpool,
will take the chair at seven o'clock ; and the meeting
will be addressed by the Rev. Canon M'Neile and others.

NATURAL MAGIC.--LiVerpool is, we believe, about to
receive another visit from William Kidd, the well-known
"natural magician" of Hammersmith. Holding, as
Mr. Kidd is said to do, a very extraordinary power over
the hearts of men, women, and children, as well as
animals of all kinds, he may rely, we think, on receiving
a cordial welcome. His anecdotic gossips seem to have
become household words. There is, we are told, a
charming freshness about them that always goes straight
to the heart.

A RUNAWAY YOUTTL—Yesterday a youth, about seven-
teen years of age, named William Phayre, was arrested
on Waterloo-road, by Detective-officer Redman, on a
charge of having run away from his father, who is an
extensive coach-builder at Limerick. It appears that
the lad had got some notion about gold in America, or
some place else, and in order to realise it, he first took
up some of his father's, and ran away by way of Water-
ford. Information was forwarded to the police, and the
lad was picked up as described. He was forwarded to his
home last night by an officer, who came from Limerick
for that purpose.

!LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—New cases received
vice and medicine at the institution : North, 170 ;
South, 107 ; total, 277. New cases visited at their own
houses and supplied with medicine: North, 100 ; South,
58 ; total, 158. Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M., Pre-
sident ; Major Bourne, Vice-President of North
Dispensary; Mr. R. A. Payne, Vice-President of South
Dispensary ; Mr. Francis Mill, Treasurer ; Mr. F. H.
Langley, Secretary.
We beg to call attention to an advertisement in ou
paper of to-day of the anniversary sermon to be preached
next Sunday morning, in St. Michael's, for the Liver-
pool Church of England School Society, at which our
estimable chief magistrate, after the example of his pre-
decessors, intends to be present. We understand that
our honoured fellow-townsman, Lieut.-Colonel William
Brown, and the officers and men of his battalion of Lan-
cashire Artillery Volunteers, have expressed their inten-
tion of accompanying the Mayor, as a mark of respect to
his Worship and the Corporation of Liverpool. We have
no doubt that this will be appreciated by the town coun-
cillors and other gentlemen, and that many persons will
willingly avail themselves of this opportunity of accom-
panying the Mayor to St. Michael's, and so manifesting
their interest in the object in view. The procession
will leave the Town-hall precisely at twenty minutes to
eleven o'clock.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASSOCIATION.—Mr. Thomas
Jones presided at the monthly meeting of the committee
of this association, held yesterday in the boardroom of
the institution. The other members present were
Messrs. Lumb, Coward, Warriner, Hornby, Calderbank,
Crane, Crilly, Gaulter, Page, Thornton, J. Atkinson,
(trustee), Tarbuck, and R. Lumb. The proceedings of
the House and Finance Committee were confirmed, as
were also the proceedings of the committee appointed to
make the arrangements for the Charity Ball, which is
to take place in the Town-hall, on Wednesday the 23rd
of January. In reference to the new assessment of
water rates, Mr. Atkinson suggested that the subject
should be referred to the Trade Committee for considera-
tion, as there was no doubt that the trade would be very
heavily assessed. It was quite fallacious to suppose, as
appeared to be generally done, that the Licensed
Victuallers consumed such an enormous amount of water
above that consumed by other shopkeepers. Some time
ago, when the subject was brought before the Water
Committee by a deputation from the association, a con-
siderable abatement was made in the charges for water.
Several other members stated that under the new assess-
ment their rates would be doubled, and it was ultimately
agreed to refer the subject to the Trade Committee.
With reference to the negotiation respecting the mort-
gage on the institution, the Chairman stated that they
had communicated with Messrs. Anderson and Collins,
but those gentlemen had not yet received an answer from
their client.

A MODEL PARISH.—The village of Dirtington, in
Cumberland, numbering about 700 inhabitants, has not
less than nine jerry-houses and public-houses, together
with a brewery. It has no intellectual association of
any kind ; and only at distant intervals has a school-
master, as his sole support is some six shillings per
week! The rector has somewhat about £7OO per annum,
and drives his carriage stylishly past the closed school;
whilst the inhabitants (those who require it) are kept in
order by a policeman, who is frequently accompanied by
a bull-dog.