The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

SANATORY REGULATIONS REQUIRED.

The Foreman of the precinct, Mary of St. Dunstan's,
made a presentment against certain old houses in Fetter-
lane, belonging to the City of London, which were made
depositories of filth to the great shame and injury of
the neighbourhood, and other house sin the same vicinity
in which the lives of the crowded inhabitants were in
efflistant danger on account of the enormous accumula-
tion of offensive matter in and about them. It also re-
lated to dilapidated houses.
Sir JANES DUKE (the Alderman of the ward) said
there was abundant medical evidence to show that the
densely crowded state of the neighbourhood, and the
want of sewage, produced fever to an alarming extent,
in close localities, to which the presentment alluded.
The dangerous state of other houses, as regarded the
building of them, should be also particularly alluded to
by the Court of Aldermen.
The LORD Mayon said the Livery ought to apply, in
the case of the apprehended fall of any house, to the
district surveyor. lle should himself take care that the
other matters alluded to in the presentment should be
attended to.

The City Solicitor said, that in consequence of the
recent alteration in the law, any person who appre-
hended danger from a building, could apply to the dis-
trict surveyor, and at once oblige him to move in the
business.

Alderman JOHNSON said a vast deal of the filthy
nuisance spoken of in the presentment was attributable
to the neglect of draining those narrow and closely po-
pulated places, for great care and pains had been taken
to make the most extensive and efficient sewers. Ha
considered that it would be a great point to be informed
how the inhabitants could be compelled to make drains
from their houses into the common sewers, which had
been so largely formed throughout the city.
The CITY SOLICITOR said if a nuisance of this kind
was occasioned by the misconduct of an individual, that
individual was liable to prosecution by the Court. If it
assumed the public character of a nuisance, the Commis •
sioners of Sewers were the authority to which application
ought to be made. In the first case, the prosecution was
instituted by the City Solicitor, at the expense of the
city, under the direction of the Alderman of the ward.

The foremen of several other wards made present-
ments, complaining of the crowds of persons who carried
on business, without being freemen.
It was understood that the subject would be resumed
with all convenient speed in the Corporation.

IRISH SEA COAST FISHERIES.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
FOOD—EMPLOYMENT.
We are, glad to find that practical measures have been
taken by the Board of Works to render the fisheries
immediately, and we trust permanently, available as a
source of food and employment in this season of un-
exampled distress. It is quite notorious that although
there is abundance of the best kinds of fish on our coasts,
the market supplies are miserably deficient ; and it is
equally beyond doubt, that this deficiency is mainly
attributable to the want of a steady demand and a re-
munerating price, near the site of the fisheries, for the
produce of the fisherman's labour. Create this steady
demand— render the fisherman secure of a market—and
you will increase to a vast amount the stock of food, at
the same time that you will employ the fisherman in the
way most natural and best understood by him. Fully
aware of this, the Board of Worka have established
three stations on the western coast—one at Roundstone,
county of Galway ; a second at Behnullet, county of
Mayo ; and the third at Killybegs, county of Donegal.
The agents there (as far as the means at their disposal
will admit) to keep up a constant and equable demand
by purchasing, at a moderate, but, at the same time, a
remunerating price, the produce of each day's labour,
without interfering with private traffic. All the fish not
required for consumption in a fresh state will be cured
on the best principles, and in such a way as to render it
edible with bread or cakes made of Indian or other meal.
But the good, to be extensively effective, must not stop
here. The course undertaken by the Board is not per-
manent, but an experiment to meet an emergency—it is
necessarily confined in its operations, and entered upon
with a view that private individuals, having been taught
the advantages of such a system in a commercial way,
may be induced to purchase and cure an ample supply
of fish in the more remote districts.
We have before us a pamphlet published by the Board
of Works on the subject of fish-curing, from which we
beg to lay before our readers the following extracts:—
The Board of Public Works, as Commissioners of
Fisheries in Ireland, having received from Sir Thomas
Dick Lauder, Bart., the annexed papers, have directed
them to be printed and distributed amongst the fishermen,
and other persons interested, with a view to promote the
establishment of a system of curing, as the most certain
basis for the permanent improvement and extension of
the sea fisheries.
" Whilst:the Irish coast abounds with fish, it is a well-
known fact, that a very great portion of the salt or cured
fish consumed in Ireland is imported from Scotland,
where a spirit of trade and enterprise has generally led
to an extensive, distinct, and profitable investment of
capital, skill, and labour in the curing of fish.
" The formation of curing establishments, where judi-
ciously managed, affords a steady daily market for the
fruits of tho fisherman's labour, and affords extensive
employment in the various trades connected therewith.
" In the present season of distress and privation arising
from the failure of the potato crop, it appears to be
essentially necessary t') call attention to the vast supply
of food of nutritious quality that surrounds the island,
and which a moderate degree of local energy, foresight,
and enterprise might readily make available in aid of the
pressing wants of the country •, whilst the result of pro-
perly directed exertions would be the permanent im-
provement of the fisheries, and profitable employment to
a large portion of the coast population.
" During this season large quantities of fish taken on
the coast have been lost or sold at a nominal price for
manure, for the want of local energy to provide suitable
means of curing, or even a sufficient supply of salt ; and
this has taken place in portions of the country where it
has since been reported that men have died of starvation.
"The curing of fish is a trade that may advantageously
be pursued on a large scale, with a considerable invest
ment of capital, or which may be profitably followed in
the cabin of the fisherman's family, when properly in-
structed.
" The preparation, washing, salting, drying, or smoking
of the fish, with its subsequent transmission to market,
and its sale, would afford profitable employment to great
numbers of women and children, as well as men, whilst
the offal will sell well as a useful manure, and valuable
oils in addition may be extracted from the fish.
" The establishment of curing stations, especially for
round fish, which may be had almost without intermis-
sion throughout the year, producing a steady daily mar-
ket fur the fishermen, will lead to increased exertion on
their part ; and the certain success attendant on perse-
verance, and increased industry, notwithstanding loag-
established habits, will enable them to procure improved
tackle, and to adopt improved modes of fishing. The
fisherman when encouraged by a fair steady price, will
et proce 1 to sea to look for and follow the fish, rather
than wait, as is too frequently the ease at present, for the
fish to come to them.
'Where a wholesome and even delicate article of food
"
for house consumption, and for keeping during a period
of two to four weeks can be prepared by an hour's
immersion in pickle, and a few hours drying or smelt-
ing with even turf fuel, the immense loss annually
sustained by the people in many parts of Ireland, from
the total neglect of any system of curing, can scarcely
be calculated.
"In any case, even a small outlay would effect much
good, and, judiciously managed, be amply remunerative;