The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Yesterday afternoon the members of this commission met
at Guildhall for the despatch of business. The chairman,
Deputy de Jersey, presided, and among the commissioners
present were Alderman Hale, Deputies Unwin, Pewtress,
Cork, Road, Lott, Jones, Elliott, Rathbone, Lorkin, and
Annis ; Messrs. G. Walter, C. Young, Stillwell, Houghton.
Israel, J. Waterlow, J. E. Sanders, &c.

Iu the course of the sitting two persons, owners of pro-
perty in the poorer parts of the City, were summoned for
not having carried out certain necessary sanatory works at
houses belonging to them, in accordance with notices which
had been served upon them by Mr. Parsons, the sanatory
inspector. This officer reported to-day that it was necessary
the works should be carried out, and therefore the Court
ordered that the works should be completed within seven
days ; and it was further decided that, if at the expiration
of that time the works were not done, the contractor to the
Commission should be called in to carry out the order, and
that the defendants should be charged with the attendant
expenses. _ _

DISEASED MEAT.
Mr. Baylis, solicitor to the Commission, reported that he
had taken proceedings on behalf of the Commission against
a meat salesman of Leadenhali-market, named Thompson
(and who had refused to give to the inspector the name of
the consignor), for having in his custody the carcass of a
sheep unfit for human food. The defendant admitted that
the meat was in a very bad state, and urged that it was
brought up without his knowledge. Sir R. W. Carden, the
alderman before whom the summons was heard, thought the
case was proved, but mitigated the penalty to 20s. and costs.
The solicitor further reported that on the 29th August
last he attended before Sir R. W. Carden, at the Mansion-
house, and procured the condemnation of the hind quarters
of a cow as unfit for human food, which had been seized by
the inspector at the shop of a butcher in Aldgate High-
street. The meat was in such a highly inflamed state that
he caused inquiries to be made into the circumstances under
which it was sent up to London, and he now recommended
that further proceedings should be taken in respect of it.
Another report was brought up respecting the condemna-
tion of two sides of a calf which had been seized by the in-
spector as being unfit for human food. The meat when
seized was in a very inflamed and diseased state, and the
whole of it had been rubbed both inside and out with fat to
hide the appearance of disease.
It was decided in these two last cases that farther pro-
ceedings should be taken against the parties who had sent
the meat to the London market, and with this view the re-
ports were referred back to the solicitor.
SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.
Dr. LETREBY presented the following report on the sane..
tory condition of the City
Gentlemen,—The inspector's returns which are before
you relate to 224 houses that have been visited during the
week, and I submit a list of 47 places for sanatory im-
provement. I also submit a list of places requiring further
proceedings, but not yet complied with.
" The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in■
spected, and the officers have condemned 7661b5. of meat as
unfit for human food. It consisted of 5 sheep, 4 calves, 2
pigs, and 55 joints of meat; 4341b5. Were diseased, and
208Ibs. were from animals that had died from natural causes.
"The mortality returns for the week are slightly in excess
of the average for the seasm. 60 deaths were registered,
and of these 22 were among children of less than five years
of age, and S were among persons of 60 and upwards.
The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis, 7 ;
mesenteric disease, 5 ; pneumonia, 3 ; bronchitis, 3 ; con-
tinued fever, 2; scarlet fever, 3; small-pox, 1 ; whooping-
cough, 1; and diarrhoea, 5; making together 12 deaths
from tubercular diseases, 16 from inflammatory affections
of the lungs, and 11 from diseases of a zymotic character.
48 births were registered in the week, namely, 25 boys
and 23 girls.
" I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " HENRY LETIIEDY."
Guildhall, Sept. 15, ISG3."
QUARTERLY REPORT ON THE GAS SUPPLY.

Dr. LETIIEBY presented to the Court the following report:
To the Honourable Commissioners of Sewers of the City
of London.

" Gentlemen,-1 have the honour to submit the quarterly
report of the illuminating power and chemical quality of the
gas supplied to the City of London by the Great Central, the
Chartered, and the City of London Companies.
" The examinations of the gas have been made at the la •
boratory in 3 ewry-street in accordance with the instructions
of the act of Parliament. Altogether there have been 735
experiments on the illuminating power of the gas, and the
results have been as follows :
ILLUMINATING POWER IN SPERM CANDLES OF
STANDARD QUALITY.
Maximum. Minimum. Average.
Great Central Company 16.05 .. 12.14 .. 14.15
Chartered Company.... 14.65 .. 10.79 .. 13.03
City of London Company 16.26 .. 8.50 .. 13 78
" From this it will be seen that the illuminating power of
the gas of each company has been generally good. On one
or two occasions the power of the City Company's gas was
very low, but this arose from the unavoidable access of at-
mospheric air to the pipes during the operation of relaying
the mains of the neighbourhood.
" The chemical quality of the gas has not, however,:been
so satisfactory, for in a large majority of cases the amount
of sulphur present in the gas of each of the companies was
largely in excess of the quantity authorised by Parliament.
This will be evident from the following table :
" AMOUNT OF SULPHUR PRESENT IN 100 CUBIC FEET 07?
GAS.

Maximum. Minimum. Average,
Great Central Company .. 28.2 .. 12.9 .. 18.8
Chartered Company...... 28'9 .. 16.9 .. 23.1
City of London Company 30.9 .. 171 .. 23.4
"In 26 examinations of the Great Central gas 13 were
above the Parliamentaryproportion ; in 29 of the Chartered
25 were above it; and in 27 of the City Company 23 were
above it.
" The average pressure of the gas has in each case been
good, for it has always exceeded one inch of water.
"I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " HY. LETHEBT.
" Guildhall, Sept. 15, 1863."
Mr. C. YOUNG asked the medical officer if the presence
of sulphur in coal gas is injurious to health r
Dr. LETHEBY, in reply, said that unless the proportion
became so large as to be positively offensive and hurtful to
the breathing, he did not know that it was seriously injuri-
ous to health, but the products of the combustion of sulphur
are so destructive to textile fabrics, that Parliament had
decided that the amount of sulphur should not exceed 20
grains in 100 cubic feet of gas supplied to the City. (Hear.)
Dr. LETHEBY said he had received a letter from Mr. Grays
the chairman of the City Gas Company, respecting the sup-
ply of gas to the public lamps by that company. That
gentleman expressed regret that the supply had not been in
accordance with the provision of the act of Parliament, in
so far as related to the proportion of sulphur present in the
gas, and stated that this bad arisen in consequence of the
coal which had been employed in the manufacture of the
gas not being of such a good quality as anticipated. He
added that a fresh supply of coal had been obtained, and
expressed a hope that the quality of the gas would now be
found to be satisfactory. He (Dr. Letheby) found by ex-
aminations he had made during the last week, that the gaff
supplied by the City Company had been of much better
quality, for out of the six testings made he found that is
tour of them the supply had been strictly in accordance with
the act of Parliament. (Hear, hear.)
After transacting some further business, the meeting Wati
adjourned.

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bench, until after the commencement of Michaelmas Term
on the 2d of November next. Ho will take his seat on the
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try-office, Doctors' Commons, on the days already ap.
pointed during the vacation, to hear summonses and mo•
tions in non-contentious cases.
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