The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

VERDICT.

" Accidental Death—The deeeased, Thomas Naylor,.
whilst travelling in the public Coach, running between the
Duukitt railway station and Waterford, and upon the pub-
lic road at Newrath, in the said county of Waterford, the
said road being then flooded with water, and without fences
or walls, the coach was upset into the adjoining marsh, and
being filled with water, he was drowned therein on the night
of the 31st of October last; and the jury are of opinion that
the grand jnry of the county of Waterford, or other authori
ties whose duty is to keep this road in a fitand proper repair,
so as to be safe for travelling, are responsible for the death of
this man ; and as such accidents have frequently before oc-
curred at this place, the jury call upon them to take imme-
diate steps, to make this road safe for travelling, and prevent
a recurrence of such for the future.

FRIGHTFUL SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PREST-
wren UmoN.—At the weekly meeting of the Prestwich
Board of Guardians, this week, a report of an inspection of
part of the township of Newton within the union, by • the
Sanitary Committee, was laid before the board. The dis-
closures made, reveal to the world the shocking social
condition of hundreds and thousands of our labouring popu-
lation. The report says :—" The committee on the 17th
inst., visited that part of Newton, called Gaggs'fields, for the
purpose of visiting certain premises whereon nuisances were
alleged to exist, In the course of their inspection, they
found a state of things absolutely disgusting and sickening
to witness, and which it is impossible truly to describe. In
the house of John Grantham, Boardman Street, they found
on a table a lot of scraps of fat, fast putrifying, and hanging
up was a leg of beef to be consumed, as was alleged, by
pigs ' • under the stairs were two leg bones of a cow, the
meat having been recently cut off in small pieces, and not
in joints. Entrails of beasts were strewed about the
yard, and the contents of the privy were overflowing,
and running out of the yard, under the door, into a
little gutter which]. emptied itself, or rather communicated
with a sheet of water which accumulated in the lowest part
of the street, at the back of the house was generally in a
very dirty condition. Grantham's wife was very dirty, and
appeared to be out of health. All the houses adjoining
Grantham's were in a state similar to his only that your
committee did not find in them any traces Of beasts having
been slaughtered. Your committee also visited and entered
-many houses in the following streets, viz :—Holland-street,
Booth-street, Back George-street, Shooter-street, Johnson's
Buildings, (1), do. do. (2), Cuthbert-street, George-street,
Mayer-street, Back Boundary-street, Boundary-street, Mary-
street. Boardman-street, and Grantham's house, may be
taken as types of the other streets and houses. The com-
mittee believe, from information which they received, that
calves in a dying state are " killed," or if dead, dressed for
food in many of the cottages. The meat is intended for the
Manchester market, and generally introduced and sold by
gaslight, for sausage meat, potted meat, and pies. The
committee were assured by Mr. Lancashire, who accompanied
them, and who knows well the condition of the locality,
and the habits of the residents, that.often in one day four or
five beasts, all unfit for human food, although sold for such,
are dressed in some of the slaughter-houses. These beasts
are driven to the slaughter-houses in a most emaciated con-
dition, sometimes fire is put under them to force them on,
and ,a ferocious dog was pointed out to the committee which
was used to set on Jo all but worry beasts which were too
far gone. to be got to the slaughter-houses by fair means. In
one little back square, enclosed on three sides by cottages,
there is a piggery capable of accommodating atleast 100
pigs, The conamittee specially notice the condition of some
of the slaughter-lieuses..: The yards are covered with blood,
!entrails, and offal, all emitting the most sickening smells ;
-adjoining, one of these, belonging to Michael Gaggs, there is
a Bess.pool in a back street, closed at one end, the cess pool
used exclusively for a depot for offal ; at,the time of the
committee's visit it was pearly full of such mattclr, in a pu-

trid or pitrifyipg state. The stTp,e,ts,gre dirty, tlio houses
are ciirty, flip
_AtJhOitants,,4re dirty;, aid eyesthg.liabits ,of
the little ct.D.dren in theitreeti are most indecent."