The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSIOR.

of Sewers for the City of
Osildhal.4

London art yeaterday at the Courtroom, in —.usual, for
the Iret time chaos the adjournment. Mr. Deputy Jsaecr
presided, and there were a large somber of oommissioriers
premed, The court au occupied for a °ponderable 'pace
of time is remising application. for cellar flaps, Ye., some
of which were granted according to the dandies; orders, sod
others were ?dotted to a committee to view sod report
upon. A memorial was brought up by Mr. Stewart, aged
by the inhabitents of the ward of Cheap, calling the atten-
tion of the coon to the vacant space caused by the demo-
lition of Lubbock's bank, to the Poultry, sad paving the
court not to let the opportunity per whish has presented
Beat for the taking of that space for the purpose of im-
pray* the street and allowing room for the merman which
will be merle la the ammo upon the coeetractica of the
new street to the Monsion-house, which will be airway
=W site mentioned. This matter has been
Aimed before the court, and had been
referred to the General Purposes Committee, who re-
ported favourably epos the project, and recommended
that the opportunity should not be feet. The wart, upon
that, Inds to the Metropolitan Board of Works, isforinieg
them of the veciast spew, and asking for their owoperatisa
is seeming it as the commencemeet of an improvement,
The Metropolitan Board wrote in answer that they dad ad
approve of the plan set oat by the commissioners ; but if
they would mend an improved Hoe and it met with their ap-
prans,, they might think it worthy of their coesideredm•
The chairmanposited out to the court that the gawks es
to the site of babbocYs bank was entirely evaded in the
answer from the Metropolitan Board. Some discussion en-
seed, sad the 'seasonal was eveatually referred to the
Gemmel ParposeaCommittee, sad it was ropolvedtbst • ems-
inanimation should be made to Mr. Villiamy to inform the
board that the plan forwarded by the engineer bad not been
agreed to by the commission, and that the application wu
inteeded to be confined to the purchase of a portion of
Messrs. Lubbock's premises, in conformity with the resolu-
tion of the commission.

Mr. 1;;;;TaTni;;;;a the =art that he bad ranked a
letter ham the Loading, Chatham, and Dover Railway,
ask* for hi approval to a pie for a viaduct across
Ludgate/4X The plan was bud before the wort, sad it
appeared to give eatiafaction, and no objection was nu&

-15;. Letheby, the medical officer, reported on the state
of 722 houses that had been inspected since the last meet-
ing of the court in July last, sod he submitted a list of
90 places for sanitary improvement. He also submitted a
list of plains that required further proceedings on so.
must of eiders aheedy issued sot having been complied
with. He reported that the markets and slaughterhouses
bad been duly inspected, and that in the course of the last
mix months the °Moms had 000demeed 42,523 lb., or rather
more thaa 19 tens of meat es vat for human food. It
wasietoted of 166 sheep, 34 calves, 53 pigs, 193 quarters of
beef eat 891 joints of meat ; 29,516 lb., or more than bell
of the whole quantity, were pntrid.the putridity having been
mused by the unusually warm weather in the early pert
ci the mouth ; bat 9,8661 b. were diseased. sod 3,21111 r. were
foam aaimels that bad died from mired caries. Is two
cum proeesdisge were taker sanest the poems who sent
the meat to the market, and in one imams the penalty was
51. sad meta, aid in the other • mouth's imprisonmeat with
bard labour.
• The mortality returns are above the average for the
mama. Darin the last six weeks there have been 317
deaths in the City, whereas the average for the oorreepeed-
ing period of the last seven years is but 286. 129 of the
deaths were among children of less than five man of sge,
and 55 mime old persons of 6U sod upwards. The chief
team of death wan aa follows ;—rhthisis and other tuber-
°War themes', 48; peatraocia red trona* 91 ; mg-
tamed fever, 11; scarlet fever. 28 ; small pox, 7 ; croup,
7; whooping oough, 7 ; diphtheria, 4 ; measles, 3 ; ery-
sipelas, 2 ; le&atile diarrhcea, 23, mad the diarrhea of
OM* 5.
The somber of births in the City dude; the mix weeks
were 348--namely, 163 boys, and 177 girls.