The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

Sanitary Condition of the City.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the City commissioners of
sewers, Deputy De Jersey presiding.
Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, reported the
results of 959 inspections of houses made since the last
meeting of the Court in July—and submitted a list of 208
places for sanitary improvement. He also reported that
that the markets and slaughter-houses had been duly in-
spected, and the officers had condemned 41,7901 b, or nearly
19 tons of meat, as unfit for human food. It consisted of
236 sheep, 1.5 calves, 78 pigs, 200 quartets of beef, and 1,009
joints of meat-12,5911b wore diseased, 24,3791 b were
putrid, and the rest was from animals that had died from '
accident or disease.

In the course of the last sewn weeks there had been 387
I births and 387 deaths in the City, and they consisted in
each case of 210 males and 177 tamales. The mortality re-
turns area little in excess of the average (344) for the corre-
sponding period of the last eight years. The chief mortality
was among children of less than five years of age. These
deaths amounted to 192, or nearly half the total mortality,
and there were 71 deaths among persons at 60 and upwards.
The chief causes of death were as follows ;—Phthisis 54
tabes 27—hydrocephalus 3—pneumonia 11—bronchitis 19
continued fever 14—scarlet fever 12—whooping cough 14—
croup 6—measles 2u`—diarrhoea 65, of which 55 were the
diarrhoea of infants, making together 71 deaths from dis-
eases of a tubercular character-29 from inflammatory
disease of the lungs, and exclusive of the infantile diarrhoea
—Bl from disease of the zymotio class.

THE CiAti surrLx TO THE CITY.
Dr. Letheby presented his quarterly report of tho illu-
minating power and chemical quality of the gas supplied to
the City. He stated that 798 examinations had been made
of the photometrical power of the gas, each being the mean
of ten observations; and the results were that, with the
exception of six instances on the part of the Chartered Gw
the illuminating power had always been, equal to the, re,
quirements of the act of Parliament. tie average Prmer of
the City Company's Gas had been 13.63 candled ; that of
the Chartered, 13.40; and tb%f of the Gr°,at Central,
13.50. In the ezrrespondinrz quarter of last year the moan
illuminating power of tie City Gas was 13.78 candles ;
the Chartered, 13 03 and the Great Central, 14.15; and in
the same quarter r.;f the last ten years, prior to the Act of
1861. the Pew.r of the Great Central Gas was 12.93 can-
dies ; whik., therefore there has been a slight falling off in
te nr
- .per of the gas during the last quarter, as compared
tlo
a that of 1863, there has been an increase of about 4
per cent, over that of the gas prior to the passing of the
1 Metropolitan Gas Act.

As regards the purity of the gas of the several com-
panies, Dr Letheby reported that it WWI always free
from sulphuretted hydrogen, and that the amount of
ammonia in all, except the Chartered Gas, was not
excessive, but the proportion of sulphur in the gas
was frequently greater than that sanctioned by Parlia-
ment; in fact, of 76 examinations made of the gas of each
of the three companies, there were 31 instances in which.
the gas of the City Company contained an excess of sulphur,
42 in that of the Chartered,and 70 in that of the Great
Central—making together 143 cpaes out of 228 in which
the requirements of the law in this particular had not been
complied with. The aNerage. amount of sulphur in the City
Gas been 19 69 grains per 100 cubic feet; is the Chartered
Gas, 19.17 grains ; and, in the Great Central, 22.5-1 grains,
the range having br,an from 35 grains to 14.4.
Lastly, he rer orted that the average pressure of the gas
had been abr,ut an inch of water, the range having been
from rath:er more than two inches to about three-quarters
of an ;:itch.

SECOND EDITION.

IWN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

--a--
DONCASTER RACES—THis DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
THE GREAT ST. LEGER.
FLAIR ATI-lOL (J. Snowden) I
GENERAL PEEL (Well) 2
CAMBUSCAN
MINER
BARAGAH
CLAREMONT
KNIGHT OF SNOWDON (A cicroft) 0
ELY
BLACK ROCK
BRINDISI (F Adams) 0

Ten ran.
BETTING A T STARTING-2 to 1 agst Blair Athol, sto 2
agst General Peel, 6 to 1 agst Miner, 8 to 1 agst Baragsh,
16 to 1 agst Cam'ousoan, 16 to 1 agst Ely, 33 to 1 agst
Knight of Snowdon, 50 to 1 agst Claremont, 50 to 1 agst
Black Rock,