The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-20 00:00:00

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City Sewers Commission.

The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London
met yesterday at the Guildhall for the'despatch of public
business. The Chairman (Mr. Deputy and Under-Sheriff
De Jersey) presided.
The commissioners were occupied for some time in dis-
posing of applications for shop fronts, cellar flaps, area
gratings, and other projections over the public way ; and
afterwards, Mr. Baker, one of the contractors for removing
dust from the houses of the ratepayers, was summoned, and
fined £3 for neglecting to remove the dust from one of the
houses in his district. Mr. R. Flood, the inspector of
pavements of the district, proved the case.

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

Mr. GEORGE WALTER drew the attention of the Court to

the state of the slaughter-house iu Ifosier-lane, upon which
subject a memorial from a number of the inhabitants was
presented at the last meeting, and said that complaints were
still made of the unwholesome and unpleasant smell ema-
nating from the slaughter-house in question.
In answer to 3.Ir.:WALTEu,

Mr. NEwmAN,lthe inspector of slaughter-ho Uses, said th.d
about 11 diseased animals had been slaughtered in the
slaughter-house in question since the last meeting of the
commission.

Mr. WALTER said he had understood that there were as
many as 20 diseased animals slaughtered on these premises
at the same time, and he thought the practice of slaughter-
ing diseased animals in the same premises where other
cattle not diseased wore also killed was a highly dangerous
one, and ought not to be permitted to continue. He sug-
gested whether, for the present, a part of the space in
Smithfield could not be set aside for the purpose of slaugh-
tering the cattle affected with the disease.

Dr. LETHEBY, having been appealed to by Mr. Walter for
his opinion, said he considered that the practice of slaugh-
tering animals which had been affected with the present
prevailing disease in the slaughter-houses and knackers'
yards in London was fraught with great danger, on account
of its being a means whereby the disease might be spread to
a large extent among the cattle in London end the neigh-
bourhood, and also because there was not only a chance of
the infection being carried by the slaughtermen engaged in
these places to healthy animals, but there was also a still
greater danger from the mixing of the dung and offal of the
diseased animals with the dung which was distributed as
manure over the country.
Mr.NIND, referring to the suggestion of Mr. Walter with
reference to the setting aside a place in Smithfield in which
diseased animals might be slaughtered, said that no doubt
any such proposition would be strongly opposed by the
authorities of St. Bartholomew's Hospital on account of the
fear of the spread of the disease.

Mr. G. WALTER moved, " That having regard to the pre-
vention of the spread of infectious typhus fever among the
cattle of London and the neighbourhood, the commissioners
are of opinion that the present practice of slaughtering
cattle affected with the disease in the slaughter-houses and
knackers' yards of the metropolis should be discontinued,
as there was great danger of propagating the disease by the
dung and offal of the diseased animals being mixed with the
manure of those places and distributed upon the laud."
The resolution was put and at once agreed to; and it was
further decided that copies of it should be forwarded to the
Markets Committee of the Corporation, the Metropolitan
Cattle Plague Committee, and to the Lords of her Majesty's
Privy Council.
Mr. JosEnt DAR-, the principal clerk, read a letter, signed
by Mr. G. C. Oke, the clerk to the Lord Mayor, acknow-
ledging the receipt of a copy of a report of Dr. Lotheby
relating to a diseased cow, and stating that his lordship
had no power to authorise Inspectors Newman and Wylde
—who were recently, on the application of Dr. Lotheby,
appointed under the Orders in Council—to take any legal
proceedings against any persons offending against the
regulations of the Council relative to the cattle plague, but
adding that his lordship would give any case that was
brought before him his best attention.
The letter was ordered to be entered on the minutes.

A number of letters were read from persons residing in

and about Leadenhall-market complaining of the offensive
smell arising therein, and suggesting a new mode of cleans-
ing the market so as to prevent any sediment or accumu-
lation of filth.

The suggestion was ordered to be carried out under the
direction of the inspectors of the commission.

SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.

Dr. LETHEBY presented to the Court the following report:
" To the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the

City of London.

" Gentlemen—The inspectors' returns, which are before
you, relate to 220 houses that have been inspected during
the week, and I submit a list of 66 places for sanatory im7
provement.

" I also submit a certificate of the unwholesome over-
crowding of the house No. 10, Robin Hood-court, Shoe-
lane, Holborn, with a view to the registration of the place
as a common lodging-house. •
"In consequence of complaints of the nuisance arising
from the effluvia from the stable of Mr. Davis, in Knight-
rider-streq, escaping into Crane-court, I have visited the
place, and' have to recommend that orders be given forthe
ventilation of the stable by a shaft in Crane-court, and that
the present openings into the court be closed.
"The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in-
spected, and the officers have condemned 15,4171b5., or
nearly 7 tons, of meat as unfit for human food. It con-
sisted of 41 sheep, 5 calves, 31 pigs, 114 quarters of beef,
and 983 joints of meat. Most of it was in a imtrid condi-
tion on account of the warm weather.

" The mortality returns for the week are a little above

the average for the season. Last week there were 50 deaths
registered in the City, the average number for the corres-
ponding week of the last nine years being 45 ; 22 of the
deaths were among children of less than five years of age,
and only 6 among persons of GO and upwards. The chief
causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis 7, mesenteric
disease 7, hydrocephalus 2, diarrhcea, whooping-cough,
and croup of each 1, making together 16 deaths from tuber-
cular diseases, 3 from inflammatory affections of the lungs,
and 11 from diseases of a zymotic character.
"I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) "liv. LETHEBY.
" Guildhall, Sept. 19, 1865."
THE GAS SUPPLY.

Dr. LETHEBY further reported that the illuminating
power of the gas supplied to the City during the week had

been in each case above the requiremen.s of the Act of Par-
liament, the average power having been above 13 candles of
standard quality. The chemical quality of the gas in the
case of the City Company, had been equal to the requirements
of the acts ; but the Chartered Gas had been overcharged
with ammonia, and the Great Central gas with sulphur.
From a report presented to the court by the clerk, it ap-
peared that on Friday, the 15th inst., the balance in the
hands of the Chamberlain on the sewers-rate account was
£9,845 Os. 101sd, ; and that they had overdrawn on the con-
solidated rate £7,250 10s. 4d., and on the metropolis main
drainage rate £1,516 ls.
After transacting some other business the commissioners
adjourned.

The Great Fire in Constantinople.

(From the Levant Herald of September 8.)

No further details of the origin or results of
this great disaster have yet transpired. To-
morrow a special council of Ministers is to be
held to receive a statistical report on the loss of
property incurred, and to devise means for the re-
lief of the poorer victims of the calamity, thousands
of whom are actually dependent on passing charity
for bread. Shelter has been improvised by the Go-
vernment for a majority of the very poorest, who
have, for the greater part, till yesterday evening
been bivouacking amid the wreck of their few
rescued moveables at the At-Meidan and the vari-
ous mosque-yards.
In the meantime, we have sincere satisfaction in
publishing the following note, the prompt and
generous charity of which sets .an example that will,
we doubt not, be liberally followed by many of our
local countrymen. The occasion is one which ap-
peals to the humanity of all who know the extent
of the suffering entailed by the disaster, and, for
the honour of foreigners of every nationality in the
capital, we trust an effort of charity adequate to the
extent and urgency of the relief needed will be
made by the whole. Contributions from members
of our community may be paid in at Messrs. Ilan-
' son's, Galata, or at the office of this paper, in which
the amounts received will be daily acknowledged.
The mode of applying the money thus raised may be
safely left to a small committee of the donors—the
thing is to raise it with the least possible delay.

" near Sir,—Asnbscription for the thousand of sufferers
by the late terrible eolith, ration is about to be opened
under the presidency of Aali Pasha. We had better, per-
haps, collect among our own countrymen; and what
should be done should be done quickly, as the want of the
poorer sufferers are urgent. Pray consult, therefore, with
Messrs. Hanson, Gilbertson, and others of our community,
and open a list with this view, putting my name down for
,50 guineas.—Yours faithfully, " H. L. Btu, WER.

‘ Scutari, Thursday"
Official return of the deaths from cholera, from
noon of the sth September to noon of the 6th, 17
and from noon of the 6th to noon of the 7th, 9.

A CASE OF ASIATIC CHOLERA.—A case of Asiatic
cholera occurred at Chatteris on Sunday evening,
and ended fatally yesterday morning, at about 8 o'clock.
The sufferer was Mr. Billett, of the King William Tavern.
Nfr. Billett was quite well during the day, and attended
church in the evening. On his return home, about eight
o'clock, he was taken suddenly ill, and was conveyed to
bed. Dr. Wright attended immediately, but in spite of all
remedies applied, Mr. Billett died yesterday morning be-
tween half-past seven and eight o'clock. This is the first
ease of Asiatic cholera Seen in the district of late years.