The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-10 00:00:00

WABIHAIL

TVS SANITARY INIITICIrOIie Rip AT. A sanitary
inspeetion of the town has beta made by Dr. Rome,
from whose report we loam that in 1852 an inquiry into
the sanitary soadities of the town was held by Mr.
Rangsv, nudes. the Bth seetlon of the Public Health Act,
and that gentleman reemeneseaded that the borough
should ber Wright wader • Looal Baird; that provision
should be made for • better water supply, for
for hems drainage, for better privy aosommodation, for
81"logoriag the streetv, and for struatiral Improve
le the houses of the poor. Latteely the soaves-
geein( of the town ham berm Improved, bet In all
istealtat Plenta the borough remains as he found it.
lo the last ten oonsecutive years the average annual
death-rate (excluding three fourth. of the workhowae
P•Pulation), km been 17.74 per 1,000 and in every
7wsr there have been deaths frets ent.rio I is,, a
diessee which can only prevail thus oostinetonsly where
there is extreme sanitary neglect. Until lately the
Union Guardianstwere the "Maisano, Authority" indthe
vestries of the three parishes of lioly, Trinity, Lady St.
tiatT. land St. Mettles were each of them the " Sower
Atteettles " for their rapacity* portions of the
borough, but ranee the passing of the Palate Health Act
of 1872 the Oserdians "f the Colon are the sole
sanitary authority in the b..irouch. As regards the
water raptly, he says that • orrtaio number of babes
In the town have well., tie hest of which are sunk to •
depth of SiNt,, bet the others are superficial. and all
Imminently es posed to pollution from their nearness to
orapite ezeithated in the gravel sul•structure, sod Into
which the fluid oontents of the former era designed to
Slow away. There are five put I. pump* In the town all
of whirl are liable to the same kind of tiAlutiou as the
private eon, and in the else of the pomp in laTorth•
street the street channel is carried over the very
mewing of the well, and the drain from a large stable
yard empties Into the channel at the plsoe. In the
southeast portion of the town the people g, t water
from the Frame, either above or about SO yards below
the bridge at "the steps" wher• the stream ie tinted
by the tide, and consequently may contain sewage
pressed beck from the entfull lxilow, and at the very
spot where water is drawl at " the steps" sewegt
enters the river, and bath above and immediately below
" the stepe' and on the game side, booms sod privy
Arai,. empty Into the river. In referring to the sewn*.
Dr. Home says that the greater portion of the sews*.
I. drained Into the Frome which It reaches at low
water, and during the flood tide it is oph,ll in an open
ditch through which it dews and which thus has the
obarsotec of a long *pea armpit. where the liquid filth
teeters la the sus. A large number of the poorer
hoses* have no pretense of drainage; slope are thrown
outdate, "anywhere out of the way." Ile adds that
there is a total want of prig seriommodation of any
hind for many of the inhabitants, the Inhabitants of
two, sad lognetimee four houses using one pet'''. At
the °earnest= of his report Le reeommeuds that the
Stialterr Authority would make arrangements for
bringing Into the town an abundant supply of whole-
some water, and that a a system of publie drainage
should be laid down to serve for every inhabited part
of the borough, mad care should be taken that it is pro-
vided with means of effective dashing and elemming
frees silt and of abundant ventilation while all opeoiags
by which sewer air man reach the Interior of Leases, or
otherwise be inhaled by the people, eimeld be edlolently
✓V. Me also rthognmends that when thew drains
have been laid down that the Sanitary Authority
Abell require all houses—within the statutory distanee—
fie be ooeneeted with thttu, and that better privy
iteeneamodation be provided. The Authority would
also organise a proper system of reins* removal, and put
ill slanekter-boeses and such please under in.peotioo.
Is conelnsion he suggest/ that the town would more be
likely to be managed efficiently by lie Own t articular
Sanitary Authority than by the general danitary
Authority of the motor.

BOSCOMBB.
• New Burst°etym.—We bear that Sir H. Drum-
mod Wolff has roust a piece of land at Boscombe for
the erestioe of a ouildlog which ts to be used sa s
ilissaterlara, for clergya.eu afreted with diereses of
dawn. We are oleo htformod that the Arthbishop
Onaterbury, sod the Bishop of the Drowse highly
entrees af the proposed 'nation.

WALBRIDGE AND BTURMINSTER AGRICUL-
TURAL BOCIETIIB.
At these swelettes held on Monday and Wed needs',
Mks show of stook was small, but of imminent quality.
A plat deal of Interest centred in the competition for
the Down sheep prism. At Btalbridge,f or Down rams
Sesoderes lemons Wotoroombs brood Cs. plsood
orlith Mr. 0. W. Homer, of Atholhomptoo, wood.
Pas ewes, Mr. Hosier was plaited first, bating Mr. K.
Darla. At eturmlnotor,three ram of Hampshire DOWD
awes were shown, Mr Unladen. a Wog the bat,and Mr.
Elommr being placed seoood : whilst among fire rains,
416, judges selected one of Mr. Homer's for liist prise,
mad sae of Mr. Saanderis for arreond—roversing the
alosialea at Stalbridge.

BLANDFORD.
BeaaVo GOAILDIarIL The medical ofßrrrs and
the relieving ofliesrs (appotnted inspectors of nuisances)
lave bad th•ir salsrlee itinVieed 20 per eetit.
CAVTION TO Me In tuna& —The Inspector of nuisances
as Thureday spired rr4 bozos of bloaters to this town as
being unfit for human food.