The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-21 00:00:00

SANATORY CONDITION OF TIIE CITY.

Dr. LETIIEBY, the medical officer of health, re-
ported on the state of 181 houses that had been
inspected during the week, and he submitted a list
of 62 places for sanatory improvement. He likewise
reported that the markets and slaughter-houses had
been duly inspected, and the officers had condemned
3,1E61b5. of meat, and 150 head of game and poultry
as unfit for human food. The meat consisted of 47
sheep, 8 pigs, 24 quarters of beef, and 7 joints of
meat; 1,9011b5. were diseased, 6821b5. were putrid,
and 6031b5. were from animals that had died from
natural causes. All of it was sent to the boilers
and destroyed.
On Saturday last John Underwood, a butcher, of
Whitley, Oxfordshire, was tried at the Old Bailey
for sending the carcass of a diseased caw to New-
gate•market for sale as food. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with
hard labour.

Fifty-five births and 48 deaths were registered
in the City during tho week. The mortality re-
turns are below the average (52) for the correspond-
ing period of the last seven years; 15 of the deaths
were among children of less than five years of age,
and 7 amongst persons of sixty and upwards. The
chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis 10,
mesentric disease 2, hydrocephalus 1, pneumonia 7,
bronchitis 5, croup 2 scarlet fever 8, and small-pox
2; making 13 deaths from tubercular diseases, 12
from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and 2
from diseases of the zymotic character, Of the 55
births 24 were boys and 31 girls.
After some other business of an unimportant
character was disposed of, the Court adjourned.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA-
MENT.—On Tuesday, after hearing Mr. Denison in
opposition on behalf of the Great Northern, and Sir W.
Alexander on the whole question, the committee, of which
the Duke of Richmond is chairman, passed the bill for the
extension of the Midland Railway into London. The result
will be to give both the Midland and London and North-
Western railways, who have both railways at Bedford, from
which town the new line into London will start, an
entrance into the metropolis. The Midland route will
be Edgware-road, crossing the Hampstead-road near
Belsize-avenue, thence through Kentish-town near
Gloucester-place, Camden-road, and Old St. Pancras•
road, terminating in tho Euston-road near the
Metro-
politan Railway. The case of the Fonarth Harbour
the
and Dock Railway Company's Bill for a lease to
,s
el.:.
Vale Railway was opened in Lord Donoughmc
Ise Calvert and
mittee, and witnesses were examined by Mr..
Pim-
lico Railway, by which it is proposed to widen and improve
Tbe bill for the pro.
Mr. Davison. The bill for the Victoria Station san.d
opposition h •
the railway and station of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company at Pimlico, and to make errangemtnte
with the London and Brighton, was passed in the committee
of which Lord Wodehouso is chairman, after some opposi-
tion on the part of the Great Western, with whom
soughtarrange-
Biaetkofrbiaerztdhee.
having been
withdrawn, was also passed by the same committee,
Commons, the bill for the proposed March to
the
pmoesnedtsnwewere bridgealso at
of the Great Northern was passed, and Spalding lino
Eastern March to Spalding line thrown that of the Great
opened the opposition of the Scottish out,
Mr. Hope Scott
burgh and Dunfermline
Railw Central to the
examination in in the Oswestr ay. Air. Howell was under
committee. The case for theY INaTuti Newtown Amalgamation
parry's proposed Hull and orth Eastern Railway Com-
rangements with the and
South Doncaster Branch, and for ar-
was taken in Mr. A.dai ' Yorkshire and other companies,
Mr. Slight,
,the secretary
s committee. The examination of
prolonged by
mer.merewarythof the Brighton Company, was
new line to Brighton. e er, in opposition to the proposed
The witness was of opinion, and
adduced statistical data, with the view of showing that the
expansion of the passenger and goods
traffic in the South
Coast district and between London •
and Brighton was not
sufficient to justify the contradiction of an additional line,
nor was it called for by any existing coal traffic.
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