The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

POOR.

The Clerk laid before the Court a report from the
General Purposes Committee, stating that they had
had under their consideration the matters referred
to them in the letters from the Guardians of the
West London Union of September last relating to
Holborn-buildings, and also, the letters from the
Guardians of the City of London Union
relating to White Lion-court, and they had been
attended by deputations from the City Unions
upon the sanatory condition of those seve-
ral premises. The result of their inquiries had
been to satisfy them that there was not a suffi-
ciently frequent inspection of the houses within the
City inhabited by the poor, neither was there a suf-
ficiently rigid supervision made of the works re-
quired to be done by the Court at some of the
houses for their sanitary improvement. The com-
mittee stated that they had been informed by the
medical officer, Dr. Letheby, that the present staff
of inspectors could not satisfactorily discharge these
with their other duties, and they therefore recom-
mended the Court to appoint one person at a salary
of £llO a-year to be an inspector of sanatory
works, whose duty should be to serve all notices
for sanatory works, and personally to see that the
same were carried into effect in a satisfactory

manner.

The report was then agreed to.
Dr. LETIIEBY then laid before the Court the de-
tails of the duties of the sanatory inspector, and
they
were referred to the committee for considera-
tion and report.

The principal
SUPPLY OF GAS.
communication
Clerk (Mr. Joseph Daw) read a
cormniaßio,a`
prforotm Mr. Potter, the solicitor to the
the Ecchequer Chie", , stating that the judges of
meat in the ease m
of
I:),e,r on Friday last gave judo.-
Clarke v. the Great Central
Gas Consumers' ComPaenc3:: upon the question raised
as to the power of the
1860 tomiPany under the Metro-
polis Gas Act of
the price of gas
supplied to the public lampisierfe::
judgesr-- 'ts. to 4s. 6d. per
Pleas,affirreed the decision
1,000 cubic feet. The
the iholding that the
of the Court of 'Common
conocireased charge.
companylhad power to make
Dr. ABRATIA3I justified the
steps taken in reference to this question, which
the
to the
.he
said, was one of the greatest importance
zon9. He could not, however, recommend theecitti.
take any further proceedings after tio decision
of
the Exchequer Chamber, hut at the same time he
thought it strange that neither the Recorder nor
who were retained by the Coin-
Common Sergeant,
mission on their behalf, were present when the
judgment was given. He thought some inquiry
should be made into this matter, and he would
move that it be referred to the General Purposes
Committee to consider and
The motion was agreed to.
The Engineer (Mr. Wm. Haywood) laid before

r the Court specifications he had prepared of contractS
for lighting, extinguishing, cleansing, repairing,
and main wining the lamps and carburating the
gas to the public lamps within the southern dis-
trict of the City for one year from Feb. 1, 1863 ; also
for lighting the public gas lamps within the north-
ern district of the City for the same period ; and
also for supplying gas to the public lamps within
the southern district for the same period.
It was decided that advertisements should be
issued in the newspapers for tenders for the per-
formance of the contracts in question.