The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.

Dr. LIZTHEIT, the medical officer of health, reported on
the state of 461 houses that had been inspected during the
past fortnight, and he submitted a list of 171 places for
sanatory improvement. lie also submitted a list of places
requiring proceedings to be taken before the magistrates on
account of orders issued but not complied with.

Dr. Letheby likewise reported that the markets and

slaughter-house had been duly inspected, and the officers
had condemned, during the fortnight, upwards of 22,0001b5,
or nearly 10 tons of meat, as unfit for human food. It con-
sisted of 50 sheep, 6 calves, 28 pigs, 81 quarters of beef, and
more than 100 joints of meat-3,8551b8 were diseased, and
3,3811b5. were from animals that had died from accident or
disease. The rest was putrid, the putridity having been
occasioned by the unusually high temperature of the season,
Since the last meeting of the Commission there had been
two persons convicted of sending diseased meat; to the City
markets ; one of them, a butcher of Boston, was tried at the
Old Bailey before Mr Commissioner Kerr, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment and a fine of £5O; the other, a
butcher, of Wootten Basset, was fined £lO and cuets, or two
months' imprisonment.

The Medical Officer drew the attention of the Court to
the fact that much delay was cause], and many difficulties
encountered at Leadenhall-market, in consequence of the
inspector not having a key to the shed where the condemned
meat is lodged. He states that it was absolutely necessary
for the proper and satisfactory performance of their duties
that they should have ready access to the mdat depository,
The mortality returns for the fortnight are below the
average for the season, and with one exception the state of
the public health is satisfactory. The exception is a rather

large mortality from measles, eight deaths having occurred
from that disease during the fortnight.
THE GAS SUPPLY TO THE CITY DURING THE FORTNIGHT.
Dr. LETnEBY reported that 686 iestings, of ten observa-
tions each, had been made of the gas supply to the City
during the quarter, and the results were, that when the gas
was burned at the rate of five feet an hour from an argand
burner of 15 holes, and with a seven-inch chimney, the gas
of the City Company had a mean illuminating power of 14-74
standard sperm candles, that of the Chartered Company
13.49 candles, and that of the Great Central Company 13.55,
but he stated that the examinations during the quarter had
been made with a burner having a somewhat smaller inter-
nal diameter (0.44 inch) than that hitherto used (0.57 inch),
and that this had the effect of raising the power of the gas
about 11.5 per cent. If therefore a deduction was made
from that circumstance, the illuminating power of the gas
as tested by the old burner would have been 12.30 in the
case of the City Company, 12•06 in that of the Chartered,
and 12.12 in the Great Central, numbers which were very
near to the Parliamentary standard. As regards the pro-
portion of sulphur in the gas, he said that it was generally
in excess of the quantity sanctioned by Parliament. In 56
out of 76 examinations the gas of the City Company had
failed to fulfil the conditions of the act; in 61 out of 76 the
Chartered had failed, and in 65 out of 76 the Great Central
had failed. Taking the mean of the whole quarter the quan-
tity of sulphur in the first-named gas has been 21.9 grains
per 100 cubic feet, and that of the second and third 22.4
grains. The range during the quarter has been from 17 to
26 grains in the Ctty gas, from 17.3 to 33.7 in the Chartered,
and from 181 to 29 grains in the Great Central. A second
impurity, sulphuretted hydrogen, has never been present,
but a third, ammonia, has, in the case of the Chartered gas,
been aleraya present in quantities above the proportion
sanctioned by Parliament. In the other companies, how-
ever, it has been generally absent. The pressure of the
supply during the quarter has ranged from 6.8 to 2.4 inches
of water in the case of the City gas, the average being P 37
from 6'B to 4 inches in the Chartered, the average being
P2B ; and from 615 to 2.5 inches in the Great Central, the
mean being 1.3.
Some other business was transacted and the commissioners
I adjou_aed.

Copt. Miller, late of the ship Charles Rylands,
was yesterday committed for trial at Liverpool, on the
charge of embezzling £l,OOO belonging to his employers,
Moue, Itylands, Seddon, and Co. of that town.