The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

The Commissioners of Sewers held their first
meeting since the adjournment for the vaistiou, yesterday,
at Guildhall, Mr. Deputy De Jersey presiding, but beyond
the report of the medical officer, there was very little buM-
DOW of public interest. The report of Dr. Letheby showed
that 989 houses had been inspected since the last meeting
of the court in July, sod he submitted a list of 208 places
for sanitary improvement. The markets and slaughter
houses bad been duly inspected, and the officers bad con-
demned 41,79011 a., or nearly 19 tons, of meat as unfit for
human food. It consisted of t 36 sheep, 15 calves, 78 pip,
200 quarters of beef, and 1,1109 joints ; 12,5911ba. were
diseased, and 24,3791b5. were putnd, and the rest from
animals that had died from accident or disease.
In the course of the last seven weeks there
bad been 387 births and 387 deaths in the City. The
mortality returns are a little in excess of the average (344)
for the corresponding period of the last eight years. The
chief mortality was among children of less than live years of
age. These deaths amounted to 192, or nearly hall of the
total number, sad there were 71 deaths among persons of
60 and upwards. The chief canoes of death were as follow :
—Plithisis, 54 ; tabes, 27 ; hydrocephalus, 3 ; pneumonia,
11 ; bronchitis, 19 ; continued fever, 14 ; scarlet fever, 12 ;
whooping cough, 14 ; croup, 6 ; measles, 25 ; diarrhoea, 65,
of which 55 were the diarrbtea of infants, medium together
71 'deaths from diseases of a tubercular character, 29 from
inflammatory affections of the lunge, aud.,exclwrive of the
infantile diarrheas, 81 from diseases of the symotic clam.
Dr. Letheby also presented his quarterly report of the
illuminating power and chemical quality of the gas supplied
to the City. He stated that 748 examinations bad been
made of the photonietrical power of the gas, tart being the
mean of ten observations, and the results acre that, with the
exception of six instances on the part of the Chartered Gas,
the illuminating power had always been equal to the re-
quirements of the act of parliament. The average power
of the City Company's gas has bees 13.63 candler, that of the
Chartered, 13.40; and that of the Great Central, 13.50. In
the corresponding quarter of last year the mean illuminating
power of the City gas was 13.78 candles, the Chartered,
13.03 ; and the Great Central, 14.15 ; and in the mune
quarter of the last ten years previous to the act of 1660, the
power of the Great Central gas was 12.93 candles ; while,
therefore, there has been a slight falling off in
the power of the gas during the last quarter, as
compared with that supplied in 1663, there has been
an increase of about four per cent. over that of the gas sup.
plied prior to the passing of the Metropolitan Gas Aet. As
regarded the purity of the gas of the several companies, Dr.
Letbeby states that it was always free from sulpburated
hydrogen, aid that the amount of ammonia in all except the
Chartered pa was sot exoesnive, but the proportion of
sulphur was frequently greater than that mentioned by
parliament; in fact of 76 examinations made of the gas of
the three complain there were 31 instances in which the
gas of the City Company contained as exams of sulphur, 42
in that of the Chartered, and 70 in that of the Great Cen-
tral, making together 143 cases out of 22d in which the re-
quirement@ of the law in this particular had not been com-
plied with. The average amount of sulphur in the City pa
bad been 19.69 pubis per 100 cubic feet, in the Chartered
gas 19.17 grain, and in the Great Central 22. 54, the average
range having been from 35 to 44 grains. Lastly, the doctor
reported that the average pressure of the gas had been about
an inch of water, the range having been from rather more
than two inches to about 3-4 tin of an inch.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE-
MENT OF SCIENCE.

BATH, TUESDAY.

From the number of arrivals yesterday inTio-
day it may now be fairly anticipated that the meeting of
the associates in this city will be most successful. tYp
to 3 o'clock the afternoon nearly 1,500 tickets had been
sold—a considerably larger number than his hitherto been
issued on the day before the proceedings commence. The
demand for hotel accommodation and private lodgings his
bees great, but fortunately for strangers, Beth, unlike
many other places visited by the association, has this special
recommendation, that it his always a large number of
spacious and elegant apartments available for almost thy
number of visitors. Press have not, therefore, been a ,:•
missive, sod every possible facility has been afforded by the
excellent system of registration, both for extent of accom-
modation and price established at the Reception-room.
Great interest appears to be attached to the inaugural
address of Sir Charles Lyell, the new President, which will
be delivered to-morrow evening, sod which it is expected
will make special reference to the thermal and manure'
waters of Bath.

The sections will commence their proceedings me the fol-
lowing morning. Of these there are :—A. Matisemetioal and
Phystcal science ; B. Chemical Science ; C. Geology ; D. Zoo-
logy and Botany, including Physiology ; F. Geography and
Ethnology; F. Economic Science and Statistics; and G.
Mecham& Sonsce. Sections C., 8., and F. are likely
to prom the most interesting. In C. an important
paper will be read by Mr. Bristow, on the Geological Servey.
Sir William Logan, director of the Geological Survey of
Canada, has brought for inspection by the anoeiatios
large box of fossils of a much more ancient character than
any that have beau previously discovered. In Section
presided over by Si: Roderick Murchison, papers will be
read by Captain Sinks, Captain Bunco, Sir Homy Ben-
hewn, and M. Kbanikeff, she Russian geographer.
In Section F, Economic Science earl Statiaties, several
unitary papers are to be read, among others, by Dr. Wilson,
on Cheltenham ; by Mr. A. B. Middleton, on Salisbury ; by
Dr. Symonds, on Clifton ; by Mr. Tin, M.P., ea the
"Health Statistics of Paris in oossexion with its Street
Improvemeete ; " and by Mr. Samuel Brown, upon the
"Mortality of F.aropeans in India." Colonel Torras. will
reed a paper epos the "Conveyance of Title by Registration
as applicable to Ireland." Mr. Westgartb will bring to the
erotica " Some Statistics of Crime in Australia ;" Professor
Wilms, it is expected, will furnish an menu at of the statistics
of agricultural implements, Ned Mr. Robert Herbert his
promised one upon the "Statistics of Live Stock." Mr. Chet-
wyod his sent a paper upon " Primal Banks ;" and Mr. F.
Purdy bee one on " The Quantity and Value of Coen im-
ported into the United Kingdom since the Repeal of the
Cora Laws." Some interesting statistical stoke which
have been sent over for the use of the section by foreign go-
vernmests will be nought ender the notice of the members
by the President. Of these may be mentioned '"the Ste.
tistics of the Russian Empire," by M. TrLintski, the minister
in charge of the Statistical Bureau at St. Petersburg ; "Ste
Unice of the Kingdom of Italy," by Signor Maestro's Depart-
ment at Turin ; the new sheem of the census of France,
transmitted by M. Le Goyt ; and a superbly printed folio
of the recent " Census of Spain." On Friday the report
from the committee appointed at the Newcastle meeting to
consider " the best means of providing for a uniformity of
weights and measures with reference to the interests of
science," will be read in this section by Mr. Jeans Hey -
wood.

" General de Roon, Prussian Minister of War,"
says a letter from Clinking, '• or his recent visit to the
camp, complimented Muskat de MacMahoo on the precision
and rapidity of the movements of the troops reviewed before
him. ' I thank your Exoellency,• replied the marshal, • for
the approbation you expices. Many of those soldit Fr are
recruits at the maws. vibe have been in training only three
months, but is France that is long enough for the young
soldiers to overtake their old comrades.'.

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