Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

THE HE .A.LTH COMMIT rEE.

The usual weekly meeting of th's committee was hell at
the Tow❑ II 11, yesterday. Mr. Alderman Dover presided.
The other committee men present were—Messrs. Shell,
B ckwHa, Anthony, flaydock, and R. Gladstone.

The CLlAntmArs; wished to know whether the Committee
had any power over the swings that were used at the
h diday time—power to ex mine them before they were
used as he hld seen it recorded but last, week there was a
death caused by one of them, and there had been another
s6me short time since.

T e anatir replied that they had n r such power.
The CitAIRMAN thought that it would be advisable to
have such powers in their next act.
'I he CI,M.AR replied taut they would undertake great
respowdhillies if they had such powers.
The AI: dical Officer of I.lea!th repotted that in the last
week, ending on Saturday last, the registered deaths in
the Borough were 250, being 13 more than the previous
week, and 5 more than the correct d averages of the
prec, eding years, including cholera. In the Parish there
were 159 deaths registered; in the Town:h.ps 91. The
,n3rease last week was chiefly owing to scarlatina, which
proved futa! to 30 children, a greater number than any
previous week since 1855. Drirracea continued to decrease,
the deaths being 36 against 47, all exc T'ing 4 being
children ; of the remaining 42, 15 %yr-re hooping cough,
13 ITAL.., 5 small-dox, tvo of them vaccinated; 2 measles,
2 cough, I syphilis ; diseases of the lungs, including
,nsuinption, caused 47 loath., eight mare than the
previous week.
Tue Bar ,ugh Engineer, Building Surveyor and Inspector
of Nuisances reported various p trticulars of the operations
in their several departments during the week, from which
it appeared that 184 inspections were male of delapidated
privies and ashpits; 1,134 cesspoAs had been discharged,
91 nuisances complained of by Inhabitants had been
isepected and means taken to remey th -m, 987 houses in
the unhealthies districts, coutain,n; 3,284 ap trtments,
and 56) cellars had been put under ex tmiaation with the
view of improving their sanitary condition.
After transacting some routine business the Committee
aljour ned.

A lette• from Senegal says that the French authorities
powerfully bided by Tanatit Amat, chief of the Mussulman
religion and deputy mayor of St. Louis, have, atter long
e9'ort3, succeeded the non-C:oristian black
population throughout all the Fre,se, tertitory to declare
to the local authorities the births and deaths which take
place amongst them, so as to have theMregisiered in the
French firm.
TRIPLD MURORII. AND ROBBERY IN Fit NCE.—The
town of La Ciotat, near Marseilles, has just b en tho
scene of a dreadful crimo. A few eloys back, a foreman
in the workyard of the Mats Ales to Toulon Railway went
to his work at five in the naornitig as usual, leaving at
h( me his wife, with a young child of eighteen months,
and a niece aged ten. At noon, not receiving his dime-,
which his nieco used to bring him every day, he left tiie
yard, and went tr his house to ascertain the cause of the
delay. On arriving there he found the place shut ap, and
a pres titicrtent of evil sized on his mind. Barsting open
the door, he hurried up stairs to his wife's room, and
there a horrible spectacle presented i self to Li, eyes. His
wife and child lay on the bed both dead with their throats
cut, and the whole place saturated with blood. In as
inner nom was the niece, tile lying murdered on the
floor. A cupboard had been broken open, and 1800'.
taken away. The alarm being given, the police and
gendarmerie were immediately on the spot, and every
search made to discover the perpetrators of this awful
crime. The t'sree bodies Rea interred the next day in the
preselee of nearly the whole population, headel by the
authorities. Shortly after the funeral, a workman, of
Piedrrontese origin, was wrested 1:011 s rong atispigion.—
Galignanzis Messenger.

The opening meeting for the session of this society, took
place in the Medical Institution, Elope-street, at eight
o'clock last night. The inaugural address was delivered
by the vice-president, Dr. Vose, and a large number cf
the members of the profession assembled to hear it.
Dr. VOSZ commenced his address by referring to the
prejudice which exists in all countries—but perhaps
especially in Englmd—to members of the medical
profession devoting themselves to other studies
or pursuits outside that of medicine. They could only do
so with injury to their immediate professional reputation
an i material interests, and yet, he observed, this injurious
prejudice extended to no other avocation. The soldier
was not thought less capable of fighting the battles of his
country because he had shown himself a good diplomatist.
They did not undervalue the ghostly offices of the divine,
because distinguished in literature, nor did the lawyer
suffer in h's profession from devotion to the study of
philosophy. The members of the medical profession alone
were restricted to the sphere of their own calling, and yet,
without hope of political distinction or courtly favour, they •
were and had been at all times, in all countries, and
under all circumstances, the opponents of popular preju•
dices and errors, and the advocates of knowledge and
eeLghtenment. Dr Vose then proceeded to lay before
the meeting an outline of the lives and labours of
men who, belonging to t'es medical profession, had
conferred upon the world and all posterity services
in paths not direet'y connected pith that path
of science. Among these, Dr. Vose principally
al'uded to the services and the endowments of De. Carus,
the foueder of Cains College, Oxford ; Gessner, called the
German Pliny ; Scaliger, the elder ; Rabelais, Michael
Servetus, S r Thomas Browne of Norwich, Claude Perrot.
Johit. Lock, and Dr, Red !liffe. In the department of
imaginative literature, Dr. Vo e alluded to Garth, Akea.
side, Goldsmith, and Armstror g In other walks of
literature, science, or art, Dr. Arbuthnot, Si,. Hans Sloane,
Sir John Pringle, Meade, the patron of art and collec-
t3r of antiquities ; Robert Simpson, the translator of
Euclid; Tobias &1011, tt, the novelist and historian ;
Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist; Albert de Haller,
W lliam and John Hunter, Zimmerman, Withe ing, and
Dr. Black. In the present century wre enumerated Dr.
Darwin, Dr Currie, edeor of Berns' works, Dr. Thomas
Brown, C. A. Parry, John Bell, D. M. Moir, the " Delta"
of Blackwood, Dr. Abercromby, Sir H. Halford, Dr. Paris,
Dr. Wells, Woollaston, Bostock, Sir James E Smith,
Bluemenbach, Sir Charles Bell. Thomas Young; and
Birkbeck. Of living non es, Dr. Voce mentitned Sir H.
Holland, Dr. Bright, Dr Greuvilte, Thomas Wild, of
Dublin Dr. Paget, Joseph Bailee Sir Jehn Forbes, t'ro-
fessor Train, Dr. Daubeny, cf Oxford, Professor Owen,
Dr. Raget, and several others. Such names as these the
lecturer declared were satisfactory evidence of the efforts
made by medical men for the advancement of knowledge,
and might reconci'e them to the fact, that theirs was
the only profession ,hrough which a man could not reach
political distinction, a patrician rank, and might render
them indifferent to the satire of Moblere, the ridicule of
Le Sage in " Gil Blas," and the lampoons of a prurient
priest in " Tristram Shandy." The conclusion of the
address was received with loud applause
On the motion of Dr. Dickenson, seconded by Dr.
Eilis Jones, a vote of thanks was passed to the vice-
chairman.
Tile members then partook of tea and toff: e.