The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-02-18 00:00:00

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CIUMBER OP COMMERCE.—The mootirly axe, titig
Gt this Chamber was held on Tuesday, Mr. J. IL
Pearse (President) in the chair.—A cornmunicat;on
was rec:iv,d from the Warrington Chamber (lading
atection tO the unnecessary trouble caused by the
present United States Consider arrangements
which necessitated the personal attendance of per-
sons sending goods to America before the Consul,
and asking- the Chamber to join in a petition to the
Foreign Office to alter. the present arrangement.—
The Prosident said he did not know of any lifficulty
ty being experienced in the town, but he beli.Ned
the Stuurbridge manufacturers had to go to the
Consul ar, Birmingham—The secretary w:s in-
structed to communicate with the manufacture s of

the town and to inquire whether the existing ar-
ra.ngements had proved inconvenient to them —The
recLmmendatione of the Council as to the course to
be taken by the eclegatta to the general meeting of
the Associated Chambers on the various resolutious
t..) be brought forward were adopted.
Tows COuNCIL.—The monthly me ei ig of th.-2
Council v.as held on Tu slay; the Mayor (Mr
foinkinson) presidiug.—The mediosl officer (Mr.
D. Corbet presented his report for the year 1837. ,
There had been 823 births and 457 d aths,l
givlnz a bii ter rate of 30 48 and a death•r-te
of 16.92, he 1 itt.:r comparing with 17'60 in 1836,
19.84 in 1835, aid 19 76 in 1834. There had beea
61 deaths from zymotio disease iii tee year. Thr
impved sanitary condition of 'he borough ant the
advantages of isolation offe:ed by the borough
hospital was taing on the rate if mortality.
There were 226 known cases of meast s in the
year, En.' this dis-ase aecounted for 37 of the 51
deaths from z)motic ,di ee ace. The me Heal officer,
after commentieg (err various poiats, descr bed the
sanitary state of the borough was good —1; the
monthly report of th Medical Office., he stet el
the number of births was 50, an I deaths 51 (21
being under 5 years aqd 15 above 60). The flealti
rate of the month was 252. Thc;re were 5 scarlet
fever cases in the haapital, all re °greasing favourbly.
—lt was resolved that on the expoatiou of the ex-
isting lease of the cattle and wholesale maket on
I April 30, the market should be retaiced in :he
hands of the Corp ration.—lt was agreed to pay the
sum of £l5O, to Mr T.
,Ward, as compensation tor
taking down and setting back the 13uar's ilea I Inn,
Worcester-et., to a tine fixed by the Improvemeot
Committee; also to purchase two adjoining houses
and strops, beluNin4 to Mr. J. Folland, for £340.
Mr. Herring stated that this would enable ,he
C,rporatioe to complete the inaprovemcut of th
pat of Worceter Street refe;red to, as Mr.
osvener, the owner of the other property required
for ins...ieg the proper street line was wilting Ii sIL
propel-L., tr..-lenAine to eim at a rea3outsbie price.—
Au item er 15s fi;ured to accounts or the repair
of tee in e receetly presnted to the Corporation
by Mr. 11 edswo:te. 'in.- latter quoted an ironical
newspaper paragrapu as to the mace being likely to
prove an " expo..-Ave baab:e," ad he said he would
pay for 1,e3 r -pair of the mace himself. Alderman
Gresveuor saio the mace was a valuable present to
the Corp-rat:on, and ie ought to be takea care of.—
L'he rep rt s'.o:Yed the i sue of books last mouth
Loin toe r Fee Lierary was 3.963 volumes. Alderman
Grosvenor, the chairm n or the committee, refei red
with sati..fac ion to sit inc eace in the issue of
scien atie.,,n a lueutional works, and attributed it
to the influence of the Gileh:ist lectures.—ln view

of a reduAion in the number of 11.oks kept by the
borough treasurer, an arran4ement had b en made
that tits sulary should in future be £2O. instead
of £3O, a i it was agreed to pay the fowa
Clerk au additio at £3O, a year, to enable him to
pay his chi f clerk a sala:y in respect to whizh he
would &vote himself entirely to keepin4 the
borough and monitory authoity accounts. This was
in lieu of appointing a borough meountoot, as
originally propose I.—The Mayor moved the ap•
pointment of a committee to cou.idor the question
of consolidating the borough I Sans. He said the
absence from town ot the Deputy Mayor (11r.
leuipest Raiford) caused him to put the matter on
the agenda p pmr in his own na.,ne, si lilt the
matter shouLi not stand over. The resoluttoa was
gre,d to.
GEOUGZ'S Solnss.—A successful soiree was
hold iu tias Town Hail on Tuesday evening in con-
nection wi h St. George's Church, and was largely
attended. prooeels, whio tinou-,ted to over
£O, were devoted to the extinoti fl of a debt on the
Parish Ro.im. After tea, which was provided by
lanes of the congregation, an interesting musical
programme was gone through Th 9 Vicar, the Rv,
I'. s. Churzli, presided,