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

CITY COMMISSION OP SEWERS.

lesterday afternoon the—w—mcznbers of this commission met
at Guildhall for the
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Lott, Alderman
jne dale, Deputies
of business. The chairman,
Deputy de Jersey, presided,Elliott,
ynDodtetpa,
umntoiaentshgbutohnneewctionLm,ourties:sie:
rnaenesrfrds,
ntwecoessi:ry anato7 works at
py&crews.ons, owners of pro-
A Israel,nn is ;
J.B.l\e\srsartsc.riGe
\.vl,lrja.l Walter,
Sanders, . ou g, Stillwell, Houghton.
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ncourse
carriedo f
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certain
ttianing
perty in the poorer parts of the City, were summoned for
notl
houses belonging to them, in accordance withs noticest which
had been served upon them by Mr. Parsons' he
inspector. This officer reported to-day that it
was
necessary
sanatory
the works should be carried out, and therefore the Crt
ordered that the works should be completed within seevuen
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 ha
had taken proceedings on behalf of the Commission against;
a meat salesman of Leadenhall-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 thesummonswasheard, 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 cf disease.
It was decided in these two last cases that further pro-
ceedings should be taken against the parties who had sent
the meat to the London market, and with this viow the re-
ports were referred back to the solicitor.
SANATORY CONDITION OF TIIE CITY.
Dr. LETHEDY presented the following report on the sana-
tory condition of the City :
"Gentlemen,—The inspector's returns which are before
you relate to 224 houses that have been visited during the
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formh aennmhdt
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markets
human
kslauenttb,
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food. It
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of places
p 0 lfaplacesesehss
sheep,
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ereq sanatorypub:
er4eirequiring
sc duly
further
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proceedings, but not yet complied with.
in-
spected, and the officers have condemned 7661b5. of meat as
pigs, and 55 joints of meat; 4341b5. were diseased, and
2081bs. were from animals that had died from natural causes.

"The mortality returns for the week are slightly in excess
of the average for the season. 50 deaths were registered,
and of these 22 were among children of less than five years
of age, and 8 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 LETHEBY."
" Guildhall, Sept. 15, 1863."
QUARTERLY REPORT ON Tur. Gits SUPPLY.
Dr. LETHEBY 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 J awry-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 :
‘6 ILLUMINATING POWER IN SPER)I 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,:bees
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 OV
GAs.

Maximum. Minimum. Average,
Great Central Company .2
28 .. 12,9 18.8
Chartered Company 28.9 .. 16.9 .. 23.1
City of London Company 30.9 . • 171 .. 3.4 '
"In 26 examinations of the Great Central
gos 13 were
above the Parliamentary proportion; in 29 of the Chartered
Glesn,tllesm63en.,,, your obedient servant,
YO
11(:13:10yiaaGg,ilnniasked
reply, said that unless the proportion
a2bsowveeriet.above it; and in 27 of the City Company 23 were
" The average pressure of the gas has in each case bees
good, for it has always exceeded one inch of water.
Sept.ed) "11Y. LETHEBY.
the medical officer if the presence
gas is injurious to health?
obfel‘‘De'larGrm Mr, C.
sulphurl.s
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 combustionof 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. Gray,
the chairman of the City Gas Company, respecting the super
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
sulphur
in
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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 gag
supplied by the City Company had been of much better
quality, fur out of the six testings made he found that in
lour of them the supply had been strictly in accordance with
the a^t of Parliament. (Hear, hear.)
After transacting some further business, the meeting wal
adjourned.

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THE PROBATE, AND DIVORCE COI:MTS.—Sir
James Plaisted Wilde,the new Judge of the Probate
Court, will not sit to hear motions, or take his seat on the
bench, until after the commencement of Michaelmas Term
on the 2d of November next. Ile will take his seat on the
3d. In the u.eantime the registrars will sit at the 13,14i=-
try-office, Doctors' Commons, on the days already ap-
pointed during tho vacation, to hear summonses and mo-
tions in non-contentious cases.
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