Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

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BOAT

in the chair
John WilSon, Wil

IlAnteri J. D. Carter, .Tol
Mr. Gouua, Governor
reported that the number o

)nging, to the Park, Wer

ID TANS

this
-Board was held yester-
:..road, Mr. Joseph Harrison
mbers present were Messrs.
3, Alexander- Johns, 'G. W.
oss, and J. B. Hughes.
Le' Vest rkrby Workhouse,
upers in that establishment,
;t week 352, this week 295

corresponding were 1

of £95 weredr

Cheques to the amount
for the relief of out-door paupers.
A. letter was read•from the Health Committee, in reply to
one from the Board, in reference to,the state of the houses
in 4 Court, Fisher-court. This letter stated that the place
had been inspected at the end of May last, and the interior

the owners. Since the Commit-0e had received the
from the Board another ingpection took place, and the

read from the Health Committee, containing a copy of a
portion of theyedical Officer of Irealtih's report, relative

to the death of a child, named Bernard Carver, from small-
pox, in 5 Court, Hughes-street. The report rtated that the
child's life was sacrificed to the new economic mode of relief.
The report was published in our columns last week.
Mr. Williams, relieving officer, was called, and'he stated
that he saw the ease reported in the papers last week, and
he looked over the books am

found no such :name• there.
He remembered a ,woman coming to him and asking fot
relief. He asked her if she was married, and she• said abc

was'; he asked where her husband was, and she said he was
working. He then told her that she should not ask for
relief- when her husband, was workim.r. and on that RI-.

application. He had gone down to the Coroner's Court on
Wednesday, and after the depositions had been taken both

. muLIC LAU lIILLUe we report to tne medical
officer of health, and the case had been attended by that
gentleman himself. When he went to make inquiry, the
woman told him that the child had been attended properly.
That was the second report that, Dr. Whittle had made.:

•
Mr. WILSON asked if Mr. Williams knew if there was
any difficulty in getting medial attendance from the medi-

cal officers.

Mr. WILLIAMS replied that there was no difficulty
whatever, and even in urgent cases they attended without
an order form, and waited till next day to have it filled up.
Mr. WILSON said he thought such a letter from the
Health Committee was very uneourteous and unbecoming, as
it was well known to the board that' their medical officers
were ready, day or night, to do their duty. He thought it
was very wrong for the Health Committee to make use of
the words " economic system of relief," for, from the very
first of the small medical reform which they had effected,
never one word was said about relieving on an economical
principle. He had always said that their object was to get
the poor better attended,„ as there had been several com-
plaints of the medical gentlemen allowing their apprentices
to do the work that they should have done themselves. He
was proud to say that they had got two such medical men,
and up to that moment there never had been a complaint
against one of them. Then, to have received sitch a letter

as the one they had receive& and that followed up by re-
- marks in some of the Papers, was too bad. He then,read a
paragraph from the Courier of Saturday last, which charged
them with manslaughter, in iidglecting the case in questiou.
The CHAinmm4 said the Health Committee had made no
charge whatever. .

Mr. Moss said he agreed, to a gTeat extent, with the re-
marks made Mr.' Wilson; buf still he could not see how
there was to be anything laid to . the charge of the Health
Committee. =. They had received the rnnnr+ from n,., Wh;+_

.w„ twuj uty ovuu rsuuu a, uutannem as tney
had sent, t make the, board acquainted with the matter.
He thought Dr. Whittle was too much of a gentleman to
endeavour to stigmatise the board in consequence of having
lost the situation of medical officer. He knew that their
present medical men were indefatigable. ~
Mr. WiLsaw.moved that Mr. Williams should draw up a
full statement of the case, with depositions before the coro-
ner, to be presented next week.
This motion was agreed to.

The proceedings Of the

he motion of the Chairman, seconded by

and confirmed, on t
Mr. Johns.
The tenders from the dispensing chemists fo:

ring been re-ad,

Mr. Moss moved, and Mr. HUGHES ieconded, that the
present dispensers be continued for their respective districts,
.„ .

including all appliances, cm
This was all the business.

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