The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

CITY COURT OF SEWERS.

Yesterday, the commissioners assembled in the
Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Precocx in the chair.
THE REPORT OP THE COMMITtEE OP HEALTH.
The Court pr:eeeded to the conaider.etion of the re-
port of the Committee of Health, ou the report of the
medical officer of health of the City of London. The report
of the committee was published a few days ags, and gene-
rally approved of the 'Ragan ions of Mr. B.ccon on the sat jest
of century arrangements for the city.
The Court con-ilered the various sections in the ceder
introduced by the committee. They agreed without com-
ment to the section u respects the question of house
drainage, upon the propriety of inter:opting the contents of
the public sewers be forethey reach the Thames, and of acting
upon Mr. Simon', suggestion that, while the ver!ous plans
for eff.cting that great object were under consideratior, the
existing nuisance caused by the eve :flow of the .traisage OR
the batiks of the river at low water shou:d bo got rid of by
the construction of culverts, sou to cmvey the sewer water
to beyond low water muk.
The court also agreed, without discussion, to the statement
in reference to the public docks, Puddle Dock, White:rises
Dock, and Dowgate Deck, retommcndisg that a vigiant
control should be exercimd over them, so as to pr-veat
them from being made a nisi inc. and injury • and that the
court elt-,uld suggest to the corporation to obtain authority
to fill them up. it was likewise agreed to that the court
should communicate with the City Lends Committee upon
the subject.
With respect to the ventilation of the sewer, the court
without hesitation ctacurreil in the opinion that a more per-
fect sj stem is highly to I:. desired.

WATER SUPPLY.
On the question of wat.r supply, forming the subject of
the second section of Mr. Simoes report, some coeveristion
took place. The following resolutions, forwarded to Mr.
Idyllic, the engineer of We N.w River Company,
by the committee, led to it " That the quantity
of water daily supplied to the City being upon an
avenge, for all purposes of consumption, Si gallons,
and for domestic supply 21 j gall. ns!per heed par diem, is
sufficient with the presort usages of water, if ptoperly
to :co-
mised, hut that the water companies should be bound to sup-
ply 30 gallms per ptr diem, should the anticipated
proposition for an increase of consumption take place."
That it is desirable that a supply, at a pressure sufficient
to deliver water at the tops c f all the lvus.s, shutt.d be given
uniformly throughout the city of Lond.n."
Mr. T. U. HALL suggested an alteration in the first res 3.
I hided to the effect that the quantity of water was averged
I upon the authority of Mr. Milne, the surveyor to the New
River. Ile believed that a great deal of the water everage a
to each inhabitant went to the ,upply of the manufactories.
The attention sugrested, together with another alters ion
merely effecting the form of the resolution, woe then,
adopted.

frarerierence to the third section of Dlr. Sinton's report,
which treats of offensive and irjurious treatise, are the fol.
lowing words:—" And we beg to report, that after con-
aiderirg all these various points, wa think it very cl,sfrable
that means should bs taken to remove the sanitary evils
which belong to intramural slaughtering, and other offen-
sive tredve, and to point out to you the n eessity when the
question of renewing your act shall come into co :bider*,
tion of procuring aeld.tional powers, which may en.:blo you
effectually to remedy the': evils."
Mr. W. S. HALE said th t medical men of high unto
n nee entertained diffvent opiniot.s as to the injuriousness
of some trades, and certainly 'shut was offensive to some
p ople was often not at nll offer.sive to others. He thought
that the werd " offensive" was not auffioiont:y definite to be
used on a question tf,ctirg the means of living pecuYar to
A large class of people. lie thought the pesters of invading
a men's home in such a manner as to prevent it from being
any longer called hie castle, had been somewhat liberally
bestowed upon the er inialeeioners of sewers.
The Court agreed unanimously with the committee as to
intramural interments wilin graveyards end vault..
Some observations were made upon the Sit section of Mr.
Simon's report.
Mr. Doputy LOTT objected to the epithet of " filthy. "
u applied to some of the peer inhaNtants of the City.
Mr. Deputy PEACOCK said it the worthy deputy would
but step into Sev.n.cep Alley, and some other alleys in that
neighbourhood, he would find the poor people third in-
finitely surpassing in filth the description given of them.
(Hear, hear )
Mr. T. H. HALL apprehended that the establishment
of model houses would be an unsuccesuul esp.:Unseat in the
Ctr. GODSON hoped that whether the poor shooid be
able to pay for the arcoromodati,n afforded by neodel
houses or not, the corporation would uut of its ecortnous
kind supply the means or diacharging the tapers. of build-
ing them.
, -7. . . . .

A chrism tack place upon the sse:ion recommending that
Mr. Simon should tu empowered to obtain in formatim from
medical practitioners, at an bggregate annual capzure sot to
timed 2501 , and the continuanee of the dauso was negatived
by a majority of 1.
Alderman MOON then gave the foll3wing notice of
motion for next Tuesday :—" That Mr. Simon be allowed
5001. per annum for the purpose of procuring the informa-
tion on unitary matters he deism ne:essary."
The consideration of the remainder of the report was, on
the adieu of Mr. N. L. Taylor, adjourned.

PRINTERS' F1N31021 SoCIRTY.—A special general
meeting was he:d en Monday, at the Lindon l'zsern,
I.l.anopsgate.etreei, of the governors, donors, and suhserwers
of this society, wl IA way first instituted in the ye .r 1,27,
for the purpose of affording re.i,t, by pens..ln and otherwise,
to ago d ard infirm printers and their widows, the prir clod
object of the meeting being to elect a secretary and col-
lector. Richard Taylor, Rq , the president of the
institution, in tte chair. lc appears that at the last annual
general meeting, Mr. James I)arkin was proposed and
seconded to till the attic, of secretary, in the
room of Mr. Hodson, upon which the latter gentle.
man demanded a poll of the whole subscribers.
It was opened at one o'clock and finally cluee,l at four, when
the chairinsa announced the following to be the mists:—
For Mr. James Darkin, 917; for Mr. 11.als As, 2,197. (kind
and cowiuued cheering ) Mej trite for Mr. Bodeen, 1,280
votes. The chairman then declared Mr. Hodson duly t teeter'.
Mr. Hodson returned thanks. Mr. Darkin said although a
detested candidate he returned thanks for the supp.rt he
bad received. The chairman then announced that Mr.
Charles rope had been duly elected collector, the nun:bets
being for Mr. Pepe, 1,728; for Kr Francis Hollan 692 :
for Benjamin Butler, 694 ; and John Fercuson, 66. A•ta r
some discussion a vote of thanks was pissed to the enainnun,
and the mteting separated.
Tll6 TACT Mmes.—Yesterday the dirce.ors ,f
these mines entertained the shareholders and their (lien.*
at a elinni rat the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. Mr.
Henry Gibson petal& d, mid, on proposing the tout of the
evening, sta.ed that the object of the prevnt meeting was to
celebrate the re opening of the Peter Tavy and Mart Tory
copper mines, near Tavistock, Devon. He went on to ob•
serve that the ceremony took place on the 6th lost , red he
ietailid a variety of facts to prove that the prospect, of the
ehareholdi es were of a very promising character, wad that
large profits were likely to be derived from the
mines, provided they were worked in a legitimate manner.
Amongst the company were several iciluentisl merchants,
one of whom (Mr. F. Healing) gave an intemstint narra-
tive of the intorinathyn he bad gained by a Twat inspection
of the mines in qursti in. In the course of the evening
allusion was made to the practice of pursuing operations on
the "cost hook system,' and the general impresidou up•
peered to be that the tennis of the contributions should be
expended in the legitimate working or the mines. The
aunts on the occasion were about 60 in mstier,
_six; the
result of the entertainment was such as to lead to the
belief that the promoter!. of the undertaking have every
roman to be confident in the ultimate success of their
operations.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(Pram the Segistree.Onserars Report.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the death. of
1.124 permits were registered in the metropolis; this sum
bar showing °sly a ,mall decrease co the return of the pre-
vious week, though the latter was rockily swelled by on
orswalkassy Islam .1 coroners' eases. Is correspeedlog
weeks .1 10 previous years (18409) the average somber of
eat!. was 918, ulna, if corrected foe increase of popula-
tion, becomes 1 001 ; the excess in last week amounts there-
*** as 123. The following series eallobits the deaths regis-
tered week'r dace the begionitg of March they were
876,067, I.OM, 1,167, and la the last wink 1,124. The
resent return, am eampered with that of the preeedieg
meek, shows a deems. in the epidemic class of dimmest, an
henrease is the hiberealer, and in dingoes of the brain and
Parma erten; bat is eomplaisto affectiog the respiratory
ergass the two retinas are slogan the same As compared
With toe. ceerecfed &moo of 10 isorreepondieg weeks, the
preen ntura shows •de nape la evens dinars, bat •
eaadderabk Innen la dime, of the respiraosvy seism
Deenbide was fatal last 1114 kto 119 persons pennons to
Si; oedema to 23; larynxitia, pleurisy, and ether complaints
ea Se eons dee to 26; the denim
tyre he aggregate from
nose sum being 253, whereat the ted &map is only
168. Cementer ion destroyed 134 penes, nearly
the anger number. Two bon mad the.. nirh
died of laryegiseaus @trials% In the epidemic
slow anall-poz was fatal to 4 roreous, measles to 16, ..de-
lis to 17, hoopingmough to 27, neap to In, isflonsa t+B,
diarrhate to 16, erysipelas to 16, typhus to 24, the mortality
bolos Ices than usual hem all them castes, ezeopt typhus,
which is eh mt the %MS" letzten% diserho”, and
which are above it. A death from cholera es-
corted oa the 31et et March, at 4, Phmsiz-stmt, North Br.
tideeia.the-gelds. The deceased was the daughter of a
beer-earn keeper, of the egg of 7 year, sad died from
" English cholera," after 16 hones' illness. Kr. Stapes,
the Itttgistrar, mentions that " the medical at tesdant, before
cntifyieg the can.. of death, called on him to explain that
if the late epidemic bad prevail. d at the present time. ke
would have eorsidered it tight to return the ens as" Asia*
cholera." The disease commenced with imeneive sickness
and diarrhir e,and the latter speedily assumed the appearance
of rift-water purging, attended with crimps. The- father of
the child dad of Asiatic ctolerie during tbe Ist* visita-
tion. No other person in now ill in the keen." Two
per.oes are repnmd this week as having died ef latemper-
mem, or al disems engendered by it. Oa the 9th March,
at Betbastgress woekter use, • female servant died at 28
years ot age, " bilious cholera (after ea tunes' of 2 dareli:
The daughter of a weaver, aged 14 Tem, died at 9,
Baas-
street, Boatel-rent, of tt chorea." A child of 21 days,
on whom an 'nee's% was held, tiled in Farringdon street
of " inhumation of the peritoneum from signore to cold."
Four children wen accidentally ref icated in bed.
The births during the week were 1,343.
At the Itsyal Observatory, Orme with, the mean height
el
the barometer in the week was 29 363 in. The seen
temparatur• was 49.6 deg., hizhen by 4.6 deg. than the
average of the same week is 7 years, and no less than
13 7 deg. hiahter than la the week immediately preceding.
On Monday and Tuesday, it was reepenively 6 deg. and
7 deg. higher than the avenge