The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

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The following circular has been issued from the
Rome-office :

" Whitehall, Sept. 1865_

" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to in-
form you that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury will undertake for a period not exceeding flue e
months from the date of the order of the Lords of . ttLe
Council of the 26th of August, 1865, the payment to in-
spectors, appointed under the authority of the orders by
the Lords of the Privy Council, dated the 11th and 26th of
August, 1865, in districts affected with the cattle plague,
or in which there is reason to apprehend the approach of
that disease, of the sum of £1 is. for each day that such
inspectors are actually engaged in the pertormance of the
duties required of them by the said orders, with travelling
expenses, at a rate not exceeding 3d. a mile each way,
upon the condition following :—Their Lordships reserve to
themselves the power of declining to make such payments
in all cases in which the appointments may appear to have
been made without adequate cause, or to have been unne-
cessarily numerous. Every application for payment is to
bo accompanied by a certificate from the authority by
which the inspectors have been appointed, stating the cir-
cumstances under which the appointment has been made,
and that the duties of the inspectors have been properly
performed. .

"As, however, no provision has been made in the Act
11 and 12 Victoria, c. 107, for the payment of any officer
who may be appointed by the local authorities, as in the
present instance, in pursuance of the order of the Privy
Council to carry into effect, in particular districts, regula-
tions made by such orders, an application to Parliament
will be necessary for its sanction to such payment. A
separate account will therefore be kept by the Treasury
for each locality, of all expenses defrayed from public
funds in respect of these payments to inspectors, which
will be treated as an advance, in order that, if Parliament
should so determine, such expenses may be charged on
local funds.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" H. WADDINGTON."

MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Sanita-
rium Committee was held at the Mansion-house,
the Lord Mayor in the chair. There were present
Mr. Gubbins, chairman of the Corporation Markets
Committee, Dr. Tripe, Dr. Burge, Mr. Rudkin, Mr.
Guerrier, Mr. Straker, Mr. James Brewster, and
Dr. Ansell, medical officer of health for the district
of Bow.

The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of
the following contributions to the Compensation
Fund :—The Corporation of London, £l,OOO ; the
Butchers' Company, £lO5 ; the Lord Mayor, £2l;
Mr. James Brewster, £2l ; Mr. John Low, £52
10s. ; Mr. John Iliggs,. £25 ; Mr. John Giblett,
£2l 103. ; Mr. Thomas Rudkin, £lO 10s. ; Mr.
Deputy Obbard, £5 53. ; Mr. Edmund Burke,
£5 53.; and F. 8., £1 is.

The committee were occupied for some time in
discussing the propriety of immediately establishing
sanitariums, the general opinion being that they
should only establish a few of those hospitals at first
in the districts where the cattle disease is most
virulent.

GIBEINS said it was most essential in arriv-
ing at facts that the :committee should obtain cor-
rect returns of the number of cowsheds, and also the
number of healthy and infected cows in every me-
tropolitan district.
Mr. RUDKIN moved that three sanitariums be
established, one for the north-west district, which
would comprise Hackney and Islington ; one; for
the north-west district, which would comprise Ham-
mersmith, Chelsea, Paddington, and St. Pancras ;
and one for the south of London. lie believed that
if the committee set to work at once there would be
no difficulty experienced in raising the • neceSsary
funds, and, indeed], now that the Corporation had
headed the subscription list the money was begin-
ning to flow in.
Dr. TRIPE seconded the motion.

Mr. GIBBINS supported it. Ile thought they should
make a ,commencement at once in establishing at
least three sanitaritims, and preparing for the estab-
lishment of others in addition, should the: disease
progress. The object of the Corporation in sub-
scribing the £l,OOO was highly laudable, and he had
no doubt the example they had so very properly set
in heading the subscription list would be generally
followed up by the public.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously..
Dr. BURGE was of opinion that the sanitariums
should be established on the most healthy, and not
in the diseased, districts of the metropolis, and that
the largest quantity of breathing room should be
afforded to each of them. He suggested that some
of the railway arches might be rendered available for
the purpose.
A sub-committee of three was then appointed to
view the various localities and to select the best sitca
for the sanitariums, with power to n.tsuctate.
Mr. Gibbs, the private secretary to the Lord.
Mayor, was appointed the future secretary of the i
committee.

Mr. GIRBINS moved that a circular be sent to the
several cowkeepers in the metropolis, asking them to
send a return of the number of cows, &c., in their
respective sheds.

Mr. RUDKI said the cowkeepers might give some-
thing like a return, but that it never could be de-
pended upon. He hoped the committee would
themselves be able shortly to produce a correct
statistical statement.

The motion was adopted.
Mr. JAMES PREWSTER suggested that the secre-
tary should be requested to write to Professor Dick,
of Edinburgh, to inquire what success had attended
his mode of treating the diseased cows there.
Mr. RUDKIN said that some gentlemen had re-
commended the propriety of fitting up a barge on
the Thames as a sanitarium, but he understood it
would take three weeks to erect a barge, and by the
end of that time the disease might have progressed
more even than it had hitherto done. He
was, therefore, in favour of making an immediate
commencement, in the hope that the hospitals would
be found efficacious in checking the ravages of the
fearful visitation.

A. desultory conversation ensued upon matters of
detail, at the close of which the committee ad-
journed.