The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-15 00:00:00

The usual orders fur payment of acootuits having been made,
The Town Ctsaa read the following report of the Streets anti
Highways Committee upon
nis PROPOSED Rif ROAD TO 8 ,
which ws.s ws fohlowi

Your Committee report that they have had under 7.onsider-
anon the desirability of upuniug a better exit and entrance
into the iligh•trect so an to avoid the railway level ensuing,
a. 11.1 they have laid before them a ;dm by the Surveyor to
carry out the imams by widening Towitgatestreet, and improving
and making • road thereupon to Stertolane ; and for that
11UrpOlIC It win be necessary to purchase the piece of land In
front of Mr Hunt's omegas in Towngateetnut which Mr
Mutt is prepared to sell I.r £7O; also about three chains and •
hall in length, and four feet in middle of the field belonging to
Kr Styring In 'rowngateetrout, for the purpueo of widening
that part of the street, and which ?Mr Styring is prepnred to
sell for g. 30, and the Surveyor repurts that the out of making
the road complete would be about £450; and of this sum Mr
Dugdalo, the owner of Starts:, lea, offered to contribute £6O„
leaving £4OO to be provided for by the Council ; and your
committee would roomenend the above plan for adoption by
the Council; and that application thould be made to the
Treasury for have to apply the two sums received from the
sale of properties belonging to the Council now standing to the
credit of the Borough fund, for the purisme of carrying out the
same."

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Mr Rogue moved the adoption ot the report, pointing out
the advantage of the propmed new road.
Mr PIU(1111' moonded ; he should do so, believing It wee an
iinimortant :natter topic town.

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bran asked if that business Ives properly before the
Council oil the agenda paper it elated that Ws rued was to
bc constructed to avotd the level cruse/tag." How was that
to he done by going all round Tetuan to Bournemouth ?
Mr Houses: It.. pity Mr bione has not paid wore attinitiou
to what has passed. I old most distinctly that the object
was to avitid the level cruising in driving from Poole to
Wiluborne.

Soule further discussion ensued, and ultimately,
Mr Stoma mid he believed it a vraste of 111..1ke1. lie moved
that no property be purchasel except that belonging to Mr
haul; that he believed, it was desirable should be taken for the
convenience of foot-passengers.
Mr STTIUNG Could assure the Council he was not anxious to
sell any of him property.
The Maroa did not see that the resolution pledged the
Council to any particukr worm of IlCLiuti.
Mr Rooms maid, after ell Mr Stone was cavilling over k.:lo—be
would agree to £420 being spent instead of al6o.
air Burr svoldd aneroid It, MOM., sabertalluent.
Mr. WISTEM thought the new read would be a valuable
aatuisition to the public accommodation. The present
roadway to and from the tAkifellowir 11.11 was lii abominable
nuMulix.
tin. division the amendment was lost, only four voting In
Its favour; and 10 for the original motion.

Till ILI 111:111.T.
On the proposition of Mr Cuaros, it was agreed that the
Mayor should negotiate with the Om Company for lighting the
town. Mr Curtis maid from returns he had received from 40
towns lens advitniageously siMated than Poole for obtaining
It appeared that i'oolo wee paying is per lamp more than y of those places ; and was only lighted eight months Instead
Of nine.
Mr iiiNtLfo3 seconded.
In reply to Mr rAlligf,
The Tows Cum said he had written to the contractor for
repairing the lamp. complaining' tif the ummidactory manner
In which be was doing his work.

ins MIMIC 'taxon.
Mr &mutt submitted • statentent showing that the death
rate at the present tame Cu only It per 1,000 per annum_ He
had tabulated a return of the whole of the deaths that had occurred in the borough within the past six weeks ending
Thureday. The total number .4 deaths was 23, of which only
one pereon was reported to have died of fever. Ile menUoned
this in Justice to the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector
of Hultman, and as showing the healthiness of the town, not-
withstanding the outcry that had been raised. It ought to be
known that thaw officers had no power to go into • persons
house and examine if • nuisance existed, unless ouniplaint was
made, and • magistrate's order wee Net obtained. Mr. Rogers
was confident the officers mentioned were perfectly ready to
carry out their duties, but they withd oOjy do so In
with the law. accordanes
711 e Council then iteparated.

THE SANITARY STATE OF POOLE.
There are some people to whom the sanitary condition of Poole h not • palatable subject; but it ii necessary at
times to call attention to shortcomings which affect the
public health, however unpleasant it may be to those
concerned; end we prefer to do it openly rather than by
writing under • nom de phone.
During the past few weeks fever has prevailed in our
midst—in some cases having a fatal termination, in others
the sufferers lingering almost unto death ; and the sole
cause assigned for the outbreak is imperfect and defective
sanatory arrangements. Of the deficiencim of Poole In
these reareets there cannot be a doubt, and they are
apparent In every street, _court, end .11,y, of the town,
while Bowling Green Ailey, Pricker's Alley, and the
narrow thoroughfares abutting on the Quay are terrible
to contemplate teeming he they do with filth, vice, and
pollution in their wont (onus, and ready at any time to
the centre of the nicet dire epidemic. At present
however, these have camped *the scourge, while the more
rigidly-looked-after parts of the town have biL•en attacked.
In the High-dtreet there have been two casino of a most
malignant form, and these in dwellings where every precaution had been observed, and where scrupulous
cleanlinesd id undoubted. It is adinitted that the great
originator of fever is foul smell, and every effort is made
by diligent hoiheholdlerd to avoid the accumulation of
anything likely to engender disease. Yet while all care
is taken in-doors, the greatest neglect is manifested out-
side, and the sweepings of the dtreeta, comprising all that
' is disgusting, even to putridity, are allowed to remain
rotting on the scavengers' leisure in the afternoon,
or it inay be, as we have men it, till the day after they
have been heaped up by the roadside. In some cases the
I closet arrangements are defective, and while in one house
everything haa been done to avoid a nuiaance, the next is
so imperfect as to be intolerable. It is wonderful, too,
how neighbourly good-feeling interferes to put • stop to
one of the most offensively-obnoxious trades that can
infect a neighbournood, and one which in other
town.
we are pleased to see put down by the
strung arm of the law—we mean is being fat-boiling. In Poole
this id allowed to be carried on in • densely-crowded
thoroughfare, and sometimes .0 highly.ffavoured ja the
stench, that many avoid the short cut" froin the High-
street to the Term-hall, rather than incur the risk of
" pouring their sorrows" on the pavement caused by the
effluvium almost always emitted. While such remissness
is tolerated, how full catcall
thefreedltdwoismeliiiilfrolnglmveorythf riewcP°lB°uhellsoadhiPreadu4Pdoomer silky
;hu smell, which t
permeate
remedy can be antdiral I Deep drainage though not
trupoindble, is difficult owing to the elevation of *MO
114 rt, el the town; to farm the sewage would be codtlY
whereas the glitters, if they are well (bodied, answer all
the purpose, and affont the readiest sewerage that can l"
obtained. 8,4 far KO good; but unless the present system
is better looked after, deep drainage seen. the enly
alternative. and should a Giivenunout Inspector be rent
down—ea has been threatened, if things du nit mend—it
will be the one the town will be foreed to adopt notow 1
wino.. No one of course likes these expensive officiate
whose " recommendations" are imperative, and few regent
thew as the beat friends of the localities they are called '
upon to visit; but in some places they see ementael,
especially in towns where the
powers that be" object to
see things as they are put into print, however smoothly
:pak.iptitally, and where the publicsuffer stenches, "4 tnnUer.USas 1.1. e vents of Cologne to sicken them, until
disease breaks out and an epidemic raitee
People may boast that Poole Is healthy, that Its death-
rate inn, low as any town of its dm in England; and they
may
_blame the Press for giving publicity to what are
9a:ted " eetteational articles ;" but it is only when
"diaitti:64cie Hansa" appear in the ne=rtle;eputriee the
arrareihol°wthehembeivestbitart'susummu""dniithaaLe 1"m
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into
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lassie.

BIRTH&

Augud. IS, at I:ndmanatoue Malmo Fitrin, the &ire .4 Mr r
C. Iltuveyl44 & daughter.
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,turust NI. at the residenec of her mother, the %rife of Mr.
James Stickland, of Portislum. of a son.

S4,ll44,•rubcr 4,.& Witchatuiton, Qv wife of llr. Chad.
of a son.

Septannber 7, at 1•001 e, the wilt 01 Mr. W. i Stickbutd, 01 a

September 7, at 11landlord, the rife et Mr E. M. Sianoner id a
daughter.
September 8, at Grirestene Mill., Lhoreheater, the wife
Mr. William Panic), fe .011.
September ti, at Stickland .heol, the Wife of Mr. mews
White, of a daughter.

)lAItRIAUI*4.
September I, at Ilnekerill. Itiah.splibirtford, lAwin Frederick.
son of the Rev. Fre.leriek J. Itooke, rector .4 Rampishani, to
lik"4B.Ptann liMbeitY;:l":;'t bible '.l
fstrl thsh' hicitohocluint:ll47lrtluBtithlal'l.lidiankeletini.
the K. J. Birk beck , :come Itatclielor .411.41 Dorset, to Ann,
°Mut daughter ..f the Ist., r. John Ciarknos.
September 1,01 the 'wish church, tit mrpaliso. In. the Rei.
It. 1,. W&u, ‘kur, Ur Henry itaverstock, Wiinhorne
Mintier, to Nary youngmg tlaughter.4 Mr. Robert belkill4
AA Firm,
September :1, at Windsor. St ISbn, to the Rev K. liar:-
nem. rector, Fruit:Hilt Itcach. National 3.1.1 Pr... Metal Rank ..f
&Viand. libsektonmeTers. to fury Ann, ekle3t daughter .4
Mr. H. :Shepard, Wituborne $t t%iles.
September 3, at St. Aintree's, Itigglesesale, by the Von. Arch.
&aeon of Redford, assisted by the Rev. F. 11. boilitsghnsisc,
Frederick Jamna lloys, of Illandford. late .4 Daiston, London,
to Emma Carrington, .4 !Slacks...le Reds.
September 3, at St. John's Church, Fortune's' Well, Portland,
by Use Rev. W. i' Roberta, Henry l'carce. F.l, .4 WM.
Inland Revenue, The ()Muni, I}oran-44er, to Mar), ekket
daughter .4 Mr Itichard Stone, baker and contraet,. poeliaial.
Septenibcr 3, at Bingham's, Meloonsbe, by the 1t,,. C. W.
liiimhant, Mr. William Spicer. .4 Itotheishamplon. to 0..4
mast daughter of Mr. C.x.r.n, K,> non, of lksiglrue's
Melosmbe.
September 3, at Ruckland Chop.'!, l'arketone, by the Res J•
C. Tolley, Mr. Joseph Ilarfoot, to Who Wary Williams hits 4,
both .4 lanigfleet, Ikeda.
September 4, at the Congregational Church, DoreheMer, In
the Ree. T. Neat e, Mr. S. names to Mill Alice Amelia Deer,
.4 Dorchester.
September 9, at East Fordlngton, by the !tee. If. )(mile, Mr
Witham Dixon, to Elias, eldmit daughter .4 Mr Jostei4l
both of Dorchester.

September 10, at thc Wtsies an Chapel, liournemouth,
Samuel Whittle, of the White dome Inn, West quatotirged,
pook, to Anna Virginia Ricketts Gerrard, of Clarence • ,
Riehanl-street, Hournemouth.

DEATHS
Autuat 30, at Wintrith, Mn. Mortimer, aged 79.
2, at his reatlentv, Sciettabury, Mr. Mumma
Moral/di, attrd 74
Srpteniber Melbury Oamontl, Rrth. Laiming, attlest
°kik' .4 Iltoulas Saarlield soul Jillke ub1,,ag,..1 ) tars awl 9
mootha
sr,4„...atta.r 0. at I...moirtteot, Poole. Marsh Jan., only daughter
of Mr. Wort Yount:. aged 10 i.
7, at Lumatect, I'm*, Mr. etaitios Bartlett, ago'
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oiura.
7, at Mi!borne $t Andra iv, Wiry, inlaid ilawiner
f Alfred and Klisit Daus, airod lour
sentember 7, at Weymouth, Mr. (kgg Moran', junr., late
netadier t/uanis, in his 1114 par.
eeptellg.f 7, at Bland/ford, Iliaa the beloved wife .4 Mr W.
enc..% relic. mg talker, aired al
Sci4ember N, at Weymouth, Captain James Lewis, 111
the Ito} al Ilibernian Military rkhool, Dublin, aired 73.
at Margate, Kent, John TUCK, formerly or Wareham, eilMI
Fentember 12, $7 4, queen-street, itridnort, Albert Edward,
lingua and beloved .on of fEtlein Walter and Jane Nava,
year and 7 months.

11;rni-U.ifer.

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