The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The Trull weekly meeting of this eommTttce wes held
nt ',l.!f-p,st two o'clock yeiterday, in the Town Mr.
A!brci;ln Dover in the char„ Othec.nienthers present—
ge.cra. Sheil,:3l`quf4e Stewart, Johnson, Stitt,
Hodion,.flobertson Gladstone, and Elaydock. •

• Of Tag ,7 OWN.

The Medical Offieer of Health reported that for the
week ending the 16th inst., the deaths registered in the
borough were 226, of which 136 were in ate parish, and
seventy in the out-towebh:p.. This .nu-e'ier is fit een
less than in the week previous, but seven Morn Caull the.l
average of the corre-ppndiog weeks of the receding nine
years. Diseases of the luegt, as in the previous week,
furnish a larger proportion than usual of the total deaths,
the number, including consumption, being eighty-three,
while the corrected average is seventy, showing that the
prect.diug cold weather still exerted an influence on the
returns of mortality for the following we-k. From the
zymotic diseases, forty-six eaths were registered. They
include twelve from hooping-cough, nine f,-ota scarlatina,
s x from typhus, five from diarrhoea, three from small-pox,
three from syphilis, one from measles, one from chicken-
pox. A boy five years of age died of diehetes, and a
licensed victualler, aged thirty, of delirium tremens.
The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and Inspec-
tor of Nuisances, reported various particulars of the ope-
rations in their several departments daring the week, from
which it appeared that 101 nuisances complained of by
inhabitants had been inspected, and means taken to remedy
them. 727 houses in the unhealthiest districts, containing
2,182 apartments and 481 cellars, had beet put under
examination, with the view of improving their sanitary
condition, and 64 lodging houses had also been examined
and reported upon.
A deputation of gentlemen on behalf of the inhabitants
of S'. Paul's square and neighbourhood waited on the
committee to complain of a nuisance occasioned by Mr.
Birkett's sugar refining establishment in Earle street.
The deputation complained very strongly of the nuisance,
and stated that it arose from the re-burning of animal
charcoal.

Dr. Dancan observed that he had inspected the pre-
mises some time ago, and that Mr. Birkett then promised
to make alterations f 0,7 the removal of the nuisance.
One of the deputation observed that the alterations in
no way abated the nuisance. On the contrary, it was, if
anything, worse now than before.

Dr. Duncan remarked that the difficulty which he expe-
rienced in all these cases was to visit the place at the par-
ticular time the nuisance was bring created.
It was ordered that the medical officer should report on
the complaint, and the deputation were requested to send
for him at any time the nuisance was being strongly felt in
the neighbourhood.
A deputation from the inhabitants of Scotland Ward
waited on the committee to complain of a nuisance oc-
casioned by Messrs. Gordon and Co's works, in Great
Howard-str, et, for the manufacture of phosphate of lime.
The nuisance was described as being intolerable. An
order similar tothat in the above complaint was made.
A memorial from the inhabitants of Kensington, com-
plaining of a nuisance arising from brick-kilns in the
neighbourhood, was referred to the medical officer of
health.

It was agreed that the salary of Mr Wilson, clerk in
the engineer's department, should be raised from £7O to
£75 per annum.

The deputy town clerk, Mr. M'Gowan, reported that a
bill has been introduced into parliament for transferring the
powers of the General Board of Health of London to a
body to be called the Lords of the Committee of the
Council for Health. The bill does not propose to confer
any further powers on the committee than those now en-
joyed by the General Board.

THE CEMETERIES' INQUIRY.
The deputy town clerk brought up the following
REPORT.

7.-ST. JAME S' 3 C 3MBTE RY.

The Town-clerk rerr s dm: the Gove:nrn"nt In-pector
has instil:iced an enquiry touching the practice of pit bUrials
adopted at James's Cemetery, and generally as tarthe
management of hat place: Hitherto it has been assumed hat
this cemetery was ex inpt from the operation of the g. neral
act for regulating the interment of the dead; but after fully
hear:n; the parties on bo'h side., the Insp'etor is of opinion
that the act does app'y. On that -übject he will, if necessary,
take the opinion of the law officers of the crown ; but it is
satisfacto,y to obaerve th a bill is now before Parliament,
by which it is proposed to give the Home-office power to cAal
with all Luria] grounds of whatever de criplon. 'I he evklence
produced on the enquiry fully susta'ned he complain's made
agates' this cemetery, and 'h., Inspector int ima'ed that, subject
to the legal question, he should r. commend an older putting
a s op to pit burials, and placing the ceuacery under proper
regula!ions: