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

DISEASED MEAT.

A. J. BAYLIS, Beg , solicitor to the Commission, stated
that ho had made inquiries into the circumstances under
which a quantity of diseased meat was sent from Arbroath,
in Scotland, to Newgate-market. The meat in question was
part of a cow which had died after several days' illness and
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A portion of the meat was sold in Arbroath, and the person
under the Nuisances Removal Act, and was there fined £5
and costs, The remainder was sent to London, and upon its
the
arrival at Newgate-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 pest been dealing extensively in diseased meat, both in
that town and in sending it up to London, and that ho 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 Or THE CITY.
Dr. LETHEBY reported that 304 houses had been inspected
during the past week, and he submitted a list of 124 places
for sanatory improvement. He also submitted a list of
places requiring further proceedings on account of orders
already issued but not yet complied With.
All the bakehouses in the City had been inspected during
the week, and with five exceptions they were found in a
clean and proper condition. In those five instances the
orders of the Court were required for the cleansing of the
bakehouses.
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
b ein number for the corresponding week of the
last eight years g 51. The chief causes of death were
as follow :—Phthisis 10, tabes and scrofula 5, pneumonia
and bronchitis 4, continued fever 1, scarlet fever and
e4asflreosnl'infiammatory affections of
diseases of a zymotic character.
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recommendation of the medical officer, and after transacting
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finished their case, the bill of the Gloucester and Led-
bury Railway was taken. It proposes with a 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 Manse-
more, and thence to a junction with the Great Western and
Worcester and Hereford at Ledbury, with branches to the
arrangements
Forest of Dean and Monmouth Railways, to ,
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ditional lines for the narrow gauge on the Gloucester and
engaged in The
in a contest upon
The proposed new line will
cross the eastern branch of the Severn about a mile above
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Gloucester by a bridge of two arches, and the western branch
Lancashire
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by a bridge of three branches. Witnesses were examined by
clauses. The bills for the projected North Durham Railways
are withdrawn. The following bills being unopposed were
passed through committee :--Peterborough, Wisoech, and
Sutton Railway, for extensions to contract these placeswith
the Great Eastern Railway to raise addditional sums of
£105,000 by shares, of which £30,000 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 Wiabech, 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 LlOO,OOO,
to make branches 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 at the mouth of the river Blyth; also to raise for
other purposes £200,000, The bill to empower the Great

An extraordinary general meeting of this company, ad-
journed from 31st May, took place yesterday at the King's
Cross station, for the purpose of considering certain bills now
pending in Parliament ; Colonel Packe, M.P., in the chair.
Resolutions were proposed approving the following bills
the heads of which were read by the solicitor, and briefly
explained by the chairman : —To enable the Great Northern
Railway Company to extend their railway from Lincoln to
the Boston, Sleaford, and Midland Counties Railway, and
from Sleaford to the Bourne and Essendine Railway at
Bourne, and to authorise the amalgamation of the said two
undertakings with the Great Northern Railway. To enable
the Great Northern Railway Company to complete their
loop line between Doncaster and Gainsborough ; ansl to
improve the gradients of their railway south of Gains-
borough. To authorise the construction of a railway in the
borough of Liverpool to be called the Liverpool Central
Station Railway, subject to such alterations as may be
deemed necessary by the directors of the company. To
authorise the construction of a railway from Alford to
Mablethorpe, in the county of Lincoln, and for other pur-
poses, subject to such alterations as may be deemed neces-
sary by the directors of the company. For affording in•
creased facilities for the transmission of traffic between the
railways of the London and North Western Railway Com-
pany and several railways in Ireland, subject to such altera-
tions as the directors may deem advisable. These resolu-
tions having been adopted without discussion, the meeting
separated with the usual vote of thanks.