The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-07-02 00:00:00

FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT

The Clerk read the following balances of the
treasurer :—Highway account, balance due from
Treasurer £216 78. 7d; Improvement Account,
balance due from Treasurer, £526 118 8d; Urban
Sanitary Authority Account, balance due to
Treasurer, £lO7 5s 3d. The following accounts
were examind and orders made for payment as
follows :—On. the Highway Account £95 16s
8d; Impro‘ement Account £94 4s 4d ; Urban
Sanitary Authority £69 17s 11d.
The report was aiopted.
GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE REPORT.

MEDICAL OFFICER'S OF HEALTH REPORT,—The
20th, 1881, were 20, viz :—Males 12, females 8;
giving a death-rate of 122. The number of deaths
registered in the same period was 27, viz :—males
16, and females 11. The birth-rate was 32.1 The
officer reported that the warm weather had such an
effect that it had made the death-rate half as low
as last month. The rate for the corresponding
month in 1880 was 11.8. There had been no death
from zymotic disease and his attention had not
been called to any nuisance during the month.
TOWN OF FICER's RErovr.—Nuisances remaining
from last month 23, reported during the month 39,
making a total of 62. Removed, new 30, old 21.
NIGHT SOIL REMOVAL-109 privies, 93 ashpits,
belonging to 193 houses have been emptied and
cleansed and their contents removed. Number of
loads 221. The lodging houses and slaughter houses
were reported to be in a good sanitary condition.
Mr. Hughes said that as regarded the free
admission into the Corn Exchange a cemtnittee was
appointed and met and after some consideta.tion it
was adjourned until the 23rd ult and it was then
again discussed. No decision was arrived at and
the meetAig was broken up. He submitted that .they
had no.hing to report to this meeting.
The Chairman said he thought it was quite rig!it
for that Board to know what was done and what
was the reason there was nothing done at that
adjourned meeting. He did not wish to bring it
before the Board if there was any feeling in the
matter, and he was not going to say anything harsh
about the proceedings. The adjourned meeting
was of considerable importance and interest. They
ought to at least s?t, theins,-.lves right in the eyes of
the public in that mat!er and it was of such interest
that the wtole of the Board was asked to form
themselves into a committee to consider the
question—the questi ,n of free admission. They
had a meeting and it was adjourned :tor further
consideration. After they had been there for an
hour and ten minutes at the adjourned meeting
they were informed, after, he may say, the who;e
thing had been thoroughly discussed, and every
member of the Board was nearly unanimous in
mAing it a free market, and they were told by the
clerk that it was contrarylto their:Act and there ore
illegal and could not pis', a resolution. He thougbt
they ought to have been informel of the illegal' tv
before they discussed the thing. All that they ha I
said at the meeting respecting the matter was a e ate
of breath. He had nothing to say further about the
proceedings at all but it struck him and seve, al
other members also at the adjourned meeting of
this important quost,on—the free admisson of ten-
ant farmers—to say the least of it, it. was an
absolute waste of time.

After some discus-ion in which Mr. Hughes, Mr.
Bland, the Chairman, Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Green,
took part, the Chairm,in begged to report progress.
The Board thou went into committee.

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