The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-08 00:00:00

30VENEMOUTEI.

S. PA11;14 CnuacB.—The portion of the new
church ~f St. Paul which is completed has been opened.
The church has been built from designs by Mr. A. H.
Parken, 10.11.1.1.1. A.. and lain the early English style
of architecture. When completed it will afford
sittings for 700 persons. At the present only the
eastern portion r,f the church is built—viz., the
chancel and sanctuary, south transepts, the organ
chamber, clergy and choir vestries, and two bays of
the nave and north a.sle. This will accommodate
800 worshippers. The church is built of local stone,
with Bath stone dressing, and the interior of white
brick is relieved by the arches and deep reveals of the
windows being executed in moulded red bri-dc. The
works have been carried out by Messrs. Hale, builders,
of Salisbury, the tile pavements being supplied by
Messrs. Godwin, of Hereford. The carving of the
caps and corbels is by Mr. Robinson, of London.
a Or !ed.
TH K HEALTH or 'ors TowN.—The medical officer of
health for Bournemouth (Dr. P. C. Nunn) has
submitted his annual report to the Commissioners, and
it has just been honed. From a public health point of
view, the report says the past year IVSA very satis-
factory. The registerpd births numbered 447 (being
12 less than in 1579); and the number of deaths (15
less than in 1879) was 265. Of the 73 deaths registered
under the heading phthisis, the visitors contributed
many of the cases arriving in Bournemouth when
the patients were in the last stages of the disease.
The total number is eight less than in the previous
year. Notwithstanding the number of deaths from
phthisis, the dry and sunny climate, sass the medical
officer, "has undoubtedly been the means during the
past year of great benefit to many in the arrest of this
complaint." As to the sanitary condition of parts of
the district the report speaks favourably. Parts of
the Boscombe and Springbourne districts will be much
improved when the houses are connected with the new
and extended main drainage, and which the medical
officer hopes will entirely do away with the present
system of soak pits and refuse heaps, both of which
would become a serious sanitary defect if allowed to
continue. Dr. Nunn complains, in his report,
of the present system of tipping ash refute,
(often very offensive) by the public scavengers in
several parts of the district, and recommends that all
hooseholders should pn,vide themselves with moveable
ash boxes which may be emptied weekly. The sanitary
condition of the different schools In the district has
been fairly satisfactory, and the report says "that all
interested in the sanitary reputation of our town, as
well as in the safety and comfort of thane who resort to
its hotels, will be glad to know that the majority of
these hotsls now fulfil the conditions of the model by-
laws of the Local Government Board as relating to
drainage arrangements, which, when fully carried out,
render. a house absolutely safe from any possible
poisoning from sewer gases within it." Attention is
mile I in the report to the "defective ventilation at
many of the places of worship in the town." some of
them having no special means of ventilation. The
attachment of the NVerttlsnirne district to Bournemouth
is regarded by Dr. Nunn (nun a sanitary point of view
as an advantage to Bournemouth as well as to West-
bourne. The mean temperature of Bournemouth in
1880 was 49.6, about half a degree below the
calculated avenge, but two degrees warmer than in
1879.