The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-02 00:00:00

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

Your Committee reports the Treasurer's balance
on the several accounts to be as follows—lmprove-
ment Accouut : Balance due from treasurer, August
25th, 1875, £lBO Os 6d ; cheques ordered August
30th, £l4 2s 7d—.2165 76 11d. Paid to treasurer
on rates, £B7 5, sd; markets, £29 18s; total,
£ll7 3s 6d. Balance due from treasurer at this
date, £282 us 4d.—Highway Account : Balance due
from treasurer, August 25th, 1875, £324 6s 6d ;
cheques ordered, August 30th, £27 19s 1d—.2296
is ; rates paid to treasurer, £l2B is id; balance
due from treasurer at this date, £424 14s 6d.—
Urban Sanitary Authority: Cheques ordered, August
30th, 1875, £9B 15s 6d ; balance due from treasurer,
August 30th, 1875, £l5 6s 2d—£B3 9s 4d. Fees
paid to treasurer, ..t6 14s 10d; balance due from
treasurer, £76 15s 4d.

Your Committee having examined the following
accounts, hereby certify them to be correct, and
recommend that they be paid as follows :—High-
way Account, £l2 8s 1d; Improvement Account,
£3 6s id; Urban Sanitary Authority, .225 9s 9d.
The report was adopted.
The Clerk suggested that £2OO should be trans-
ferred from the Highway Account to the Urban
Sanitary Account; and on the motion of Mr.
Kelly, seconded by Mr. Woolley, this suggestion
was adopted.
The following is the report of the General
Purposes Committee :
GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

Obstructions in the Streets.—Your Committee
report that this subject is under the consideration
of the proper authorities, and, therefore, report
progress.
The Medical Officer of Health reports, " Diarrhcea
has been the prevailing disease in the township
the last month; indeed, as is usual at this
time of year, it appears to have been pretty gene-
ral throughout the country. lam happy to report
however, that it has not assumed a very fatal
character, only two deaths having occurred from
it during the month. Scarlet fever still lurks
about the town, and occasional cases occur. One

death from that disease is recorded. The mor-
tality still remains light. The number of deaths
registered in the township from August 21st to

September 21st,_is 15; nine of the
.deaths being

children under five years. One death from seal::
latina. The death rate is 19.19 per thousand. The
number of births registered in the same period is
35, viz., males 15, females 20. The birth rate is
44.79 per thousand."
The
_Visitation and
_Report Book was laid before

your Committee. Places in Kidderminster-street,
Worcester-street, Market-street, and Union-street,
have been inspected, and instructions given for the
removal or abatement of nuisances found there.
Town Officer's Report.—Nuisances removed from
last report, ; reported during the month, 30.
Removed—old, 5; new, 26; carried forward, 5.
Night Soil Removal.—Seventy privies and 58 ash-
pits, belonging to 97 houses have bqen emptied
and enclosed, and their contents removed. Num-
ber of loads, 148.

The slaughterhouses, bakehouses, and public
lodging houses are in good sanitary condition.
No. 3 lodging house is closed.
Petroleum Licenses. Applications for licenses
have lieen received from Mr. George Nichols,
High-street, and Mr. Charles Jasper,Uniou-street.
As the Town Officer reports that there exists pro-
per provision for storing the petroleum, your Com-
mittee advise that the required licenses be
granted.
- - -
' '

On the proposition of Mr. Kelly, seconded by
Mr. Stringer, the adoption of the report was car-
ried unanimously. .
The Clerk read a letter from Messrs. llarwards,
_ m _

Shepherd, and Mills, referring to the
.claim of Mr.
Parkes .for compensation for damage done to a
hearse, through the badness of a road which was
.under; the jurisdiction of the Commissioners. The
matte} had been under discussion . at a previous
meeting of the Beard, and the majority of the
members were then of opinion that the Board was
not liable. The matter was then referred lo
committee With power, if they deemed it advisable
to do so, to defend an action. The latter had
called, in the assistance of Mr. Shepherd, and
placed the whole of the facts before hitn, and that
gentleman now advised them to settle the matter
tor the sum of l 2 3s 61
A short discussion ensued, and after some little
demur on the part of gome a the members, the