The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the Coe cf Sewers of
the city of London assembled at Guildhall fot the despatch
of business.

A deputation waited upon the Commissioners to urge
street, so as to widen that thoroughfareat the southern end of Wood.
passing at
upon them the desirability
the
same in order to allox of
rotting back certain premises at
effecting an improvement by
Improvement
rheivehiouwsaosecaeion,
two vehicles
subsequentlyand Iva
reducedr a-
Committee for consideration and
been before the court on a time. Tho matter had
re-
ferred to the Im
t o report.l7 50, A
was sum
askedof £
forl , O
the
,v,,
the uublic way, but the greund required to be laid into
improvement was not of Commissionerssuch considered that the
expending that amount out ca nature as to justify them in
to subscribe £3OO, if the boar the rates, but they consented
would chiefly be benefited by tbhitants of the locality, who
scribe the remainder. Severel eimprovement, would
firmssub-
scribe in the neighbourhood
had since agreed to contribute £3OO, and it was now urged
that, as the improvement Was
one of a public nature, the
Commissioners ought to Pay
the
remainder.
The whole of the circumstanceschairman intimated an opinion that,
as they had adopted the report of the Improvement Com-
mittee, and had decided not to
contribute a larger sum than
£3OO towards the improvement, notice of motion must be
given to rescind the decision then,oorne to, before any fur-
ther proposition could be made.
The matter ceuscquently
was allowed to drop.
I.J.tiwitoLtsolr Flax.
Mr TowsE, the clerk of the Pistil:llo7.
sub-
mitted to the court 'anus of unwholesome fish seized by the
-gers' Company,
inspectors of the company during the rncnth of April, May,
and June last. Sul joined are the quantities, as reported :
0t
April-194 cod, 1,000 dabs, 17
4s,
haddocks, 31,500 herrings, 2,636 e 1,500 gurnets, 313
Plaice, 5 skate, 28,100
smelts, 1 turbot, 1,530 whitings,
inwt*
cod sounds, 1 kit of
pickled salmon, 89 gallons of shrimps,
whitebait. May-175 bream, 4 brill, 22 cod, 171 crabs,
and 20 gallons of
1,500 dabs, 1,200 gurnets, 971 haddocksl
, 12 200 herrings,
209 lobsters, 177 maids, 173
plaice, 4 ,
skate, 3 soles, 107
thornbacks, 37 trout, 4 turbot, 9,650 whitings, 501bs of cod
sounds, 743 gallons of shrimps, 38
bushels and 30 quarts of
whelks. Juoe--33 brill, 28 cod, 25,800
nets, 120 haddock, 892 mackerel, 22 dabs, 21,000 gur-
nets,
salmon, 34 skate, 961 soles, 4,171 ets' 9,094 plaice, 8
thornbacks, 25 turbot,
41,980 whitings, 471bs of eels, 3,400
gallons of shrimps, and
81 quarts of whitebait.
From the weekly report of Dr, Letheby y on the sanatory
state of the City it appeared that 287 houses
in-
spected since the last meeting, and a
list ofhad been
117 places was
He submitted for sanatory improvement. also handed in a
list of places requiring further proceedings on account of
orders already issueJ, but not yet compliedwith-
Tho markets and slaughter-houses wore duly inspected,
and the officers had seized 6,4771 b, of
meet as unfit for
Sheep, 1
human food. It consisted of 25 calf, 14 pigs, 33
quarters of beef, and numerous joints of
meat.
The mortelity returns for the week aroa little above the
average for the season. Last week the number of deaths
was 56, the average for the cerresponding week of the last
8 years being 49. Twenty-two, or nearly half of all the
deaths, were among children of less than 5 years of age, and
14 among persons of GO and upwards, The chief causes of
death were as follows :—Phthisis 7, pneumonia 2, bronchitis
4, whooping-cough, fever, and diarrhea 1, each 1; scarlet
fever 2, and measles 3.
GAS SITEPLY TO TEL r
...ITT.
Dr. Letheby, in a supplemental report,
stated that the
illuminating power of the gas supplied to the City during
the past week has been in each case above the requirements
of the Act ( f Parliament, but the average proportion of
sulphur in the case of the Great Central gas has been above
the amount sanctioned by Parliament,
The Commissioners shortly afterwards adjourned.

PANEGYRIC ON TIIE DEvim—Dentu and co.
have published an extraordinary work by M. J. M. Cayla,
on the subject of the Devi!, entitled "Le Diable, sa Gran•
deur et 5a Decadencor

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The deaths in London, which were 1,300 in the second
week of July, rose to 1,399 in the week that ended last
Saturday. The average number of deaths in the twenty-
ninth week of the ten years 1854-63 is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,266. The mortality was high for
the third week of July, for the actual number of deaths
exceeded the estimated number by 133.
The increase in deaths over those of the previous week
arises in great measure from summer diarrhoea, The weekly.
number of fatal cases of this complaint had been gradually
rising, but had not attained 100 till last week, when it
quickly rose to 145. Of these 145 cases, 28 occurred in the
West districts, 31 in the North, 22 in the Central, 38 in the
East, and 26 in the South districts. Six deaths from
diarrhea x were returned in the Balgrave sub-district, 11 in
Pancras, 9 in Islington, 8 in Clerkenwcll, 10 in Shoreditch,
3in Mile-end 0:d Town, 6in Poplar. The whole of the
deaths caused by diarrLoel, with the exception of 14, occur-
red to children under two years of age. Besides these, 6
deaths were referred to cholera.
Seventy-four children died of measles, half of whom died
in the E Ast districts, in which division of the metropolis both
measles and diarrhea I appear chiefly to prevail. There wore
5 deaths from measles in St. Mary, Paddington.
There is much scarlatina in the sub-district of St. John,
Westminster.

The increase of the mortality in the week arose from the
complaints that are fatal to children. The deaths of persons
under 2() years of age increased from 693 in the previous
week to 810 lest week ; those of persons 60 years old and
upwards declined from 238 to 193. Deaths by convulsions
rose from 38 to 71 ; those by developmental diseases of
children fram 24 to 42 ; those by atrophy and debility
(amongst children) from 63 to 74.
A cabinetmaker, aged 63 years, died on the 4th inst.,
at 11, Little Paternoster-row, Christchurch, Spitalfields,
from degeneration of the heart, accelerated by privation
and want of food.

Last week, the births of 976 boys and 891 girls, in all
1,870 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1851-63 the average number
(corrected) was 1,831.

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