Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting of this board was held yesteral
Mr. Alderman Dover in the chair. The following metsbeA
were' present :—Messrs. M'Gume, Beekwith, Haydock
Stitt, Anthony, Holden, Godfrey, and James Holase 06
The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and le
sp3ctor of Nuisances, reported various particulars of 14
operations in their several departments during the yzef,lo
from which it appeared that 164 inspections were on
of dilapidated privies and ashpi-s, 1,069 cesspools had bead
discharged, 80 nuisances complained of by inhabitants 1111
been inspected, and means taken to remeiy them. 6,l.vai
houses in the unhealthiest districts, containing 2,uv:
apartments and 513 cellars, had been put under examillv'
dol. with the view of improving their sanitary condition'
The Medical Officer's report stated that the deaths, fl
all causes, were 223, against 205 the previous week, all
an average of 270, corrected for increase of population, ag
the same week of the preceding nine years, excluding 13/4'‘
In the parish the deaths were 141. and in the out-town;
ships, 79. Of 97 deaths from Zymotic diseases, 54 Wr,
from diarrtcea, the same number as the former wee"'
15 from hooping cough, 7 from typhus, 6 from scarletinth
3 from cholera, 2 from measels, 2 from purport, 1 feco
dysentary, I from small p:,x Of the 54 who died ho
diarrhoea, 48 were infants, and 4 above seventy years %
age. Disease of the lungs, with consumption, caised
deaths, the average of the same week of former 710'.
being 49.
In reply to Mr. Haydock, Dr. Duncan said one of the
cases of cholera was Asiatic cholera; it was the case or "
child 18 months old.
THE WEST DERBY ROAR.
In consequence of a question pat by Mr. 31,C1-affit:l
regarding the width of the road where the late fa
,
accident happened, the Surveyor was instructed to aseef
tain the feelings of the inhabitants, as regarded the wid,_tc,
ing of that part of the road. The Committee then
tr ansacted the routine business, and adjourned.

AN AMPRICAN VICTIM.—A melancholy case has oceureci;
the victim being a young g'rl named Mary Brady, AIS
had been boarding at the house of a Mrs. Broderi, k.
appears that she had been betrayed under a promise °
marriar. She went to work in a determined manner;
first going to a small shop, kept by a lady with whom sm
had resided, where she purchased a pie, but the lady o°'
tieing her eyes red and swollen, asked liar what was el
matter. She replied nothing, and with a laugh turned ou
of the door, leaving the pie. Shortly after she returned
and got the pie, remarking that she had bought three 6ilo
worth of stryelmine, which size intended to take in he.
pie. She was toll it would kill her, but her reply 0,3 e
I'm going to take it for medicine." So cooly did smt
talk and act that the lady was completely thrown off' her
guard, suppoiing the poison was to be used for some otbs,
purpose. She returned to her boarding-house, went to be;
room, which was occupied by another young girl, where.
ahe delilrlately took the top c ust from off the Pl.t
sprinkled tae strychnine contained in the paper through !„:
and seating herself upon her chair ate one half of
She then stated that she was going to her cousin's, wher,
she was taken with spasms which terminated her eart_be
ly existence about midnight. After taking the poison tile
unfortunate girl drank immoderate quantities of
which utterly precluded the possibility of doing anythllli
towards saving life. The young lady was highly esteem ",
by her numerous acquaintances, about 20 years of qg
having a father and mother at present residing in Das'