The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.-YESTERDAY,

The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held
at half past two o'clock yesterday, in the Town hall, Mr.
Langsdale, chairman, in the chair. Other members
present—Messrs. Beck with, Robertson Gladstone,
M‘Guffie, Dover, Thine, Halhead, Sheil, Crosthwaite,
A. C. Stewart, and Ittydock.

HEALTH OF THE TOWN.

Dr. Cameron, acting for the medical officer of health,
reported that the mortality of the borough continued
below the average of the season, the deaths registered last
week being 226, showing 76 fewer than the corresponding
week of the last eight years. Zymotic diseases caused
91 deaths, of these there were from fever 2, small pox 1,
scarlet fever 4, diarrhoea and other affections of the
bowels 67, looping cough 4, measles 4, croup 3. Apo-
plexy and diseases of the brain causA 18 deaths, con-
vulsions 17, diseases of the lungs and consumption 36,
debility and old age 33 ; diseases of the lungs caused 5
deaths, liver 1, dropsy 3. The mean daily temperature
for the week was 66 degrees ; the highest on Tuesday,
the 12th, when the thermometer rose to 76 degrees. The
mean reading of the barometer was 29.84 inches.
In answer to a member,

Dr. C imeron replied that bowel complaints were not
more prevalent than they generally were at this season
of the year.
The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and
Inspector of Nuisances, reported various particulars of
the operations in their several departments during the
week, from which it appeared, that 104 nuisances com-
plained of by the inhabitants had been inspected, and
means taken to remedy them ; 320 houses in the un-
healthiest districts, containing 1,002 apartments, and 153
cellars had been put under examination, with the view
of improving thiir sanitary condition.
The Inspector of Nuisances' report included the
following :—" With reference to the provision of a
proper depot for seized meat in this borough, and which
came under the notice of the committee by memorial
last week, the inspector begs to report that a sufficient
depot has long been wanted in this town, not only for
the reception of seized meat, but also for smothered
cattle landed from steamers in stormy weather. This
matter has several times engaged the attention of the
health and finance, as well as the market, committees,
but nothing effectual has yet been done. In the event,
however, of any large system of slaughter houses being
adopted outside the borough, such an establishment for
boiling and destroying seized refuse could easily be allied
therewith. Complaints have also long existed of bad
smells being occasionally emitted from cellars in the
neighbourhood of St. John's market, where fowls arc
kept, killed, and dressed, and which places have almost
been considered as necessary evils, but the prompt
removal of refuse therefrom is necessary to the health
of the neighbourhood, and the health and market
officers are using stringent measures to enforce it."

THE REMOVAL OF SL AUGHTEK HOUSES OUTSIDE THE

BOROUGH.-THE DEPUTATION TO PARIS.
A conversation took place on this subject, and par-
ticularly in regard to the appointment of a deputation
to proceed to Paris to enquire into the working of
abattoirs there. _ _ _

Mr. Beckwith, who was named as one of the deputa-
tion, denied that any job had been contemplated in it.
It was the first time that he was accused of a job, and,
as regarded himself, nothing could be more unjust and
unfounded. He was a member of the sub-committee
appointed to procure information in the matter, and
when he was informed that he was appointed a member
of the deputation, he expressed his readiness to discharge,
as he had always done, the duties which were deputed
to him.

Mr. Sheil observed that what he complained of was,
that a sub-committee should take upon itself to appoint
a deputation to go to a foreign country at the public
expense. They might have recommended such a course
to the general committee, but to so act upon their own
determination was what he believed had never before
been done by a sub-committee. He should say that lie
also was a member of the sub_committee, that he had
attended its meetings, but that he had never heard a
word about the deputation until the last meeting of the
general committee.
Mr. Crosthwaite expressed himself in like terms. The
deputation had been formed out of doors, and he should
therefore protest against it.
Mr. Dover thought that the resolution referring the
matter back to the sub-committee, with instructions
that they should procure further information, might
fairly be take❑ by the sub committee as authorising them
to appoint a deputation to obtain that full and perfect
information which they so much required. The depu-
tation on the smoke nuisance had been productive of
great good, and he thought the like result would have
followed in this instance.

The matter then dropped ; but before the committee
separated, the deputy law clerk, Mr. M‘Gowan, men-
tioned that the resolution of the sub-committee, autho-
rising the appointment of the deputation, had been
before the general committee, and approved of by them.
The applications for increase of salary referred to the
committee by the council were referred back to the sub-
committee.
This conclude.l the business.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

YORK Y - ESTERDAY.

LATEST BETTING

EBOR HANDICAP.
5 to 2 agst Coroner—offered
7.. 2.. NV,rlock —taken freely
8 .. 1 .. Brother to Grey Tommy—taken
1 1 . . I .. courtenay —taken
20 .. 1 .. Pretty Bay—taken
100 .. 6 .. Merlin—taken

ST. LEGER.
3 to,l agst Fazzoletto—taken •
DERBY, 1857
1000 to 60 agst Goldfinch—taken
50 1 ... Lord of the Hung—taken
40 .. 1 .. Sharoshooter—taken
25 .. 1 .. Blink Bonny—taken
25 .. 1 .. Colonist—taken
22 .. 1 .. Scheidam—taken
20 .. 1 .. Lady liawthorn—taken

YORK RACES.—YEsTERDAT

BTENNIAL STAKES.

Augury ..

2 I Red White and Blue.. 3

ST. LEGER.
Artillery ..
%Von by a head, and a half between 2nd and 3rd.
PRINCE OF WALES STAKES.

Ignoramus
Twelve ran.
EGLINTON STAKES.
Augury........... 1 I Prince
FoofuOrrraann.ge.. I Yorkshireman . 3
F,BOR HANDICAP.
_ _

Warlock .......... I I Merlin
Nine ran.
IroPEFUL STAKES.

Fisherman
PRODUCE STAKES.
_ _...

Gortschakoff
LOTTERY STAKES.
Spelah
Four ran.
FILLY SAPLING STARES.
Vanity..
Three ran.
ARRlVED.—Derrick, Fazzoletto, and Vidette.