The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-15 00:00:00

KIDDELLIIINbTER IOWN COUNCIL.

The monthly meeting of the Council was held en
4'ednesdey ; the Mayor (M.r. G. Holdsworth) in the
A letter was read !rem the Hon. A, C. G. Cal-
thorpe relative to the p °posed visit of one of the
.ureion parties of tie British Aeseciation to Kid-
derinineter on September 9, and asking for the ae-
e etaiee of the Mayor on the occasion. the Mayor
elle ha prope-ed 4.0 tisy carte blanche in regard to the
.esitore, Mr. Tomkinson : You mean you will
exercise the hospitality of the Mayor.
The Town Clerk read a letter from the Lc:cal
oiovernment Boaed, forwarding a copy of the report
of their int-pt.ctors upon the leakage at the lower
we 11. They :tad received an application for a. copy
fot publication, and forciatdeu a copy that the
Uoulleil might tai.e such stea as they deemed c.x-
peelient.- Tee Maymettaid he had read through the
..r port, arid did not think there was anything in it
.0 trinTlittoLthete. lie to vet/ that the report Le
etrzed ti the Drainage ad Waterworks Committee
th it, they might :oral tiL.ir jteigineet upon it. The
u,otioti was secencied ana c.rcied.
The medical officer's report show 2d that there had
toren 39 births and 5 &title in the past month.
death-rate was 125, aeainst 17.333 last year.
dteierence was made to a nuisance arising from
,11 night-soil depot, and from the operatiene which
weet on there, it was etated that the nuisance
arose eutside the borough limits. and that the rural
hodtary jeep ctor bad see, aei a notice oa the person
el,o was reeoonsible in the matter.
The Aledi -al Officer men,i.med a 'case of typhoid
e- Cr et a amuse weere a prevtous case had arisen,
.aud it appeared that the pale ts wouti not allow
;he peeient chit.) to be reince.sed tot the worehouse
ectieus ward, Lome animadversions were made
on the Geardiaes wth regard to the tine they took
recently on the infectious hospital question, and
satiefaction win expressed that the Local Goveria-
u at Board had add; eased a Litter to the Clua,teliatis
it, the subject. It was decided to authorise the
an itery inspector to realo:e the fever case above
no :done t to the borough infectious hospital.
The _Drainage tine -Wate;works Committee re-
:ortod tePo vend items of Major Fusbry's award
;s to the sewage farm, aid s ated that the borough
re2;in .-er was ploceeding with the cultivation of the
eirra pending a report as to is future conduct which
he committee had requested Maier Feshery to pre-
pare lot their guidance and advice.
In moving the baths report, Mr. Holloway sug-
gested the poesibility of using the tanks at the
erwer pumping stration or swinitning-ba,hs, and it
ass resolved that au inspection and report on the
,u'iject should be made. Au offer was received
fluin the Mayor to present a fountain to the town,
!-o he fixed on the see of the old lowa Hall. The
mater was discussed iu committee, the Mayor with-
trawitig, and a sub committee was appointed with
reference to the matter.
HE FATAL ASSAULT. Mr. Miller Corbet, th
..lepaty-Conner for East Worcestershire, held au
inquest at Wribbenhall, near Kiddertninst -r, on
ednesdav afterntiou on the body of Cearles
who died on Sunday last from the etfeets
ef. eelietis injuries received t.oin a pair of tones at a
oubdc-house in Wribbenliall on Easter Monday
evening, The facts of the ease have already been
re; erteel.—The Coroner having summed up, the
jut y, after a short consultation, returned a verdiA
of manslaughter ag tinst itiehard lienitnend.—On
is elia-ge Hae.mond will be tried at the As:siz s
next week.

IiROMSGROVE.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS. - At the meeting of this
..n Tn•srtay Mr, Wright in the chair a
ongicuiori took !lace as ro the case of the child
:ri:a Mrs a-rper, w i h was taker,. to the 'house by
be pollee, lctirigt uneer the instance of Dr. Ca!ey,
Unt,ti Medici Officer, about six weeks a,g
and which it was alleg,d had been starved and
treated by the person with whom it had been placed
at nurse. A letrer was real oy the Clerk (Mr.
P') ft' m Mr. Joseph II ;wltinds. who had
c nsulted in he clso, and wrote tnat upon the
tir preA,ced [Fat he was unable to advise a
,:...secution. Mr. Whitebair. one of the (3 uttriians,
• r-,1 the people with whom the child had been
) ,rce:l were r,spectublo pet sons, and he denied that
there were tile shgote,t grounds for saying the child
had 'aeen starved. The oiscu,sloo ended by Mr.
Parry proposing, and Mr. arrriter s-_conding,. a re-
solution that the Board believed the child had been
illtreated, and ,xpressed its regret that the state of
the ,aw did not permit of the prosecution of the
woman. This was carri,d, Mr Whitebair voting
t it.