The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

DISEASED MEAT.

A. J. BAYLIS, Esq , solicitor to the Commission, stated
that he had made inquiries into the circumstances under
which a quantity of diseased meat was sent from Arbroath,
in Scotland, to Nowgate- market. The meat in question was
part of a cow which had died after several days' illness and
physicking, from fever. It was taken from the farm and
dressed, by a person named in the report, for human food.
A portion of the meat was sold in Arbroath, and the person
who had dressed the meat and sold it had been summoned
under the Nuisances Removal Act, and was there flied £3
and costs, The remainder wee sort to London, and upon its
arrival at Newgato-market was seized by the inspector.
The solicitor added, that from the inquiries he had made he
had ascertained that the person implicated had for some
time past been dealing extensively in diseased meat, both in
that town and in sending it up to London, and that he had
in fact been making a trade of it.
It was decided to instruct the solicitor to take the neces
sary steps for prosecuting the guilty party.
THE SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.
Dr. LETHEBY reported that 304 houses had beenirspected
during the past week, and he submitted a list of 124 places
for sanatory improvement. He also submitted a list of
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The medical officer submitted a list of the courts and
alleys which require flushing during the summer months.
The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in-
spected, and the officers have condemned 1,835 lbs of meat
as unfit for human food. Nearly the whole of it was in a
diseased condition.

The mortality returns for the week are below the average
for the season. Last week the number of deaths was but
45, the average number for the corresponding week of the
last eight years being M. The chief causes of death were
as follow :—Phthisis 10, tabes and scrofula 5, pneumonia
and bronchitis 4, continued fever 1, scarlet fever and
whooping cough 1,. and measles 7, making together 15 deaths
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from tubercular diseases, 4 from inflammatory affections of
the lungs, and 10 from diseases of a zymotic character.
Among the last group of these measles is the only one which
has manifested any extraordinary prevalence.
Dr. LETHEBY further. reported that the illuminating
in each case been above the requirements of the act of
parliament ; but the amount of sulphur had in the case of
the week had
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sanctioned by Parliament. . .
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some other business the Commissioners adjourned.
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Railway and Public Companies in
Parliament,

The traffie case having been concluded, the engi-
neering features of the proposed East London Railway are
now under consideration in Lord Scanleyis
committee for
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son, Mr Abernethy, Mr Bligh, and Mr Bouch were ex-
amined at considerable length by Mr Phinn, Mr Burke, and
Mr Round. Mr Hollins, of the firm of Minton and Co.,
porcelain and pottery manufactures, gave evidence in favour
of the proposed Shrewsbury and Potteries Junmien Rail-
way. The promoters of the Worcester and Dean Forest hav-
ing finished their case, the bill of the Gloucester and Led-
bury Railway was taken. It proposes with W'"" capital of
£200,000 in shares, and £66,000 loan, to construct an aggre-
gate length of railways of 19 miles from about two miles east
of the Gloucester station of the Midland Railway to le eat
and thence to a junction with the Great Western and
Worcester and Hereford at Ledbury, With branches to the
Forest of Dean and Monmouth Railways, to lay down ad-
ditional lines for the narrow gauge on the Gloucester and
Dean Forrest, and to make working and traffic arrangements
with neighbouring railways. The proposed new line will
cross the eastern branch of the Seveir. about a mile above
Gloucester by a bridge of two arches, and the western branch
by a bridge of three branches. Witnesses were examined by
Mr Cripps in favour of the project. The promoters of the
Lancashire Railways are still engaged in a contest upon
clauses. The bills for the projected North Durham Railways
are withdrawn. The following bills being unopposed
were
passed through committee:—Peterborough, Wisbech, and
Sutton Railway, for extensions to contract these places with
the Great Eastern Railway to raise addditional sums of
£105,000 by shares, of which £SO,COO is in respect of a de-
ficiency in the estimate of expense under the act of 1863,
and £25,000 in respect of the estimates for the new works,
and £35,000 by loan, as well as to attach at 6 per cent, pre-
ference dividend to shares in the authorised and proposed
capitals to an amount not exceeding £130,000. The line
will cross the river Nene by a bridge at Wisbech, with
tramways along its western shore. The Blyth and Tyne
Railway Bills, which empower the company to take addi-
tional powers to purchase lands on which various parts of
their railways have been constructed, and to raise £lOO,OOO,
to make trenches from Morpeth to the mouth of the river
Blyth, and to subscribe £lOO,OOO towards the £400,000 pro-
posed to be raised for constructing docks, piers, and break-
waters a; the mouth of the river Blyth; also to raise for
other purposes £230,000.. The bill to empower the great