The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-02 00:00:00

The CHAIRMAN stated the deaths last week were 1,096,
being 133 above the usual average. Might not thisi be
attributed to the cause assigned ?
The resolution was put, and carried unanimously.
Mr. COLLINSON, chairman of the Board of Guar'
dians, eulogised the conduct of the medical gentle:
men—reiterated some of the lamentable cases which lute
been referred to, expressly that of Mr. Gill, in Friar'
street, and concluded by moving the third resolution:-;
" That the officers of this parish be requested to forsiara
copies of the resolutions passed this day to the Metropo-
litan Commissioners of Sewers, and respectfully to tirge
upon them the propriety of their 'causing the nuisance
and danger complained of to be immediately remedied,
either by the adoption of Mr. Franklin Coxworthfs
plan, or some other equally or more efficient mode; one
that the officers of this parish be also requested to coal:
municate these proceedings to the parochial officers or
the metropolitan districts, in hope of their general 'co-
operation.

Mr. COPE seconded the resolution, and thought that
the mode of curing the evil was not what they had to
deal with, that must be left to scientific men.
Carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. ComaNsoN, thanks were voted
to the churchwardens and overseers for the use of 'the
school-room.

Mr. ARCHER returned thanks, and the meeting sepr
rated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 1. •
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had a fair demand for stook
generally, and the market is firm. The sales are—Cale-
donian, Preference, IA p.—Great Northern, 9 c.
cashire and Yorkshire, Quarters, 1 dis.—Ditto, Halves (140
Huddersfield and Sheffield), 13 dis.—London and North'
Western, Quarters, I%—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin'
colnshire. 101. Preference, 101—illidland Stock, 104—Ditto,
New Halves, 534 dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 108%-'"
North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover;
24%—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p.

MANCIIESI'iII; AUG.- 1.
STOCK Excnerroir..—The sales are—East Lancashire*
Preference Quarters, 5-16 p.—Kendal and Windermere, 41/4
Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union). 3 13-16d1
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, I,oi
—North Staffordshire, 23% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4, 2 13-16 dis.

/WU 110.
On the 27th ult., at Burton-upon-Trent, Airs. H. AllaoPPg
of a son.
At Hitchen, Her ts, on the 28th ult., Aire, H. W. Bentley,
of a daughter.
On the 29th ult., at the Grove, Clapham-common, Bfrs•
Franks, of a son.
At Hornchurch, Essex, on the 30th ult., Mrs. J. J. Vir'
Gutch, of a daughter.
On the 30th ult., at Buckshaw, Dorsetshire, the wife of
John du Boulay, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 31st ult., at Somers-place, Hyde-park, the
wife of
W. Gill, Esq., of a son.
On the 26th ult., at Wilton-place, the wife of R. West". macott, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., at Streatham-hill, the wife of W. Carr
road, E q., of a son.

dletitD.
On the 26th ult., at ColBIE
wall, Herefordshire, the Rev. G
H. Sumner, M.A., fourth sen of the Bishop of Winchester'
to Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of T. Heywood, BK.'
of Hope-end.
On the 28th ult.. at St. George's, Hanover-square, Dli°
Elizabeth Phoebe, daughter of Mr. King, late of RuPert";
street, Coventry-street. to Sir H. C. Oxenden, Bart-, '3'
Broom-park, Canterbury.

DIED.
On the 25th ult., at Westbonrne-grove, Bayswater al
v"
77, Francois Cramer, Esq., late Master of her Majesty's State
Band. and for upwards of 50 years the highly-respected
leader of the Ancient Concerts, Provincial Musical Festivals,
Philharmonic, &c.
On the 25th ult., at Speenhamland, near Newbury, aged
64, J. M. Bunny, Esq., formerly of the 76th Regimen.'.
On the 27th ult., Miss Fanny E. Dickenson, of Lowe'
Eaton-street, Grosvenor-place.
At Tredegar-square, on the 28th ult., aged 60, Elizabeth,
relict of Captain James Stranack.
On the '29th ult., at Fonthill-place, Clapham-rise, Mrs.
Cox, widow, for more than 30 years matron of the
Westminster Hospital.
On the 30th ult., at Palace-gate, Exeter, Miss Elizabeth Lewis, sister of the late James Lewis, Esq., formerly Speaker
of the House of Assembly of Jamaica, aged 63.
On the 30th ult., Elizabeth, the wite of H. W. Lamb,
Esq., of the Insolvent Debtors' Court.

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D~iddlea z, Wednesday, August 2, 1848.

seeded to quote from a publication of the Health of
Towns Association, and other documents, to show the
fatal effects of inhaling these noxious gases from sewers/
&c. Fevers had been known in Liverpool and else-
where, as shown by Mr. Grainger in his lectures, and
by Dr. Southwood Smith, from parties being lo-
cated opposite gully-holes. Typhus fever had appeared
in these cases. He knew a house in Tottenham'
court-road, where fever had broken out from
a want of proper ventilation of the drains.
In his own practice in connexion with the parish he had
had occasion to witness some of those cases- of fever
(which he detailed with great force), in one of which
three children had died within seventy-two hours of
scarlet fever. In this case he besought the father, who
was a carpenter, to take up the flooring, and look under
the floor of his room. It appeared that the soil from
the privy had escaped, and had formed a complete
layer of decomposed matter immediately under the floor.
In Liverpool a case had occurred in which the men on
hoard one vessel had been attacked with fever, and one
or more of them died. An inquiry was made into the
cause of this mortality, and it was found to have been
caused from the vessel having been moored exactly op'
posite one of the outlets of the sewers. The diseases
produced from these causes were abscesses, scrofula, and
bowel complaints. This was especially the case about
the Mint, and other narrow streets in the parish.
While the opening of the sewers was permitted, the worst
possible gases were evolved. Having mentioned a vs-
riety of cases of sickness produced from the causes re-
ferred to, the speaker concluded by saying that he could
net unriertalte to suggest what might be the best mean`
to adopt in the matter; but one thing he was sure was
indispeta.ably necessary, and that was an immensely in'
creased supply of water.—(Hear, hear.) He had great
pleasure in seconding the resolution.
Mr. BAKER said he could not forbear from mentioning
an incident which had occurred in his own case. Some
months since he had been greatly annoyed at a verf
unusual smell on the premises. He discovered in his
garden a small hole, which it appeared communicated
with the sewer or cesspool. Ho stopped it up very effec-
really, end the smell vanished. He mentioned this to
show that the commissioners of sewers adopted a wrong
principle in allowing the air to rush into these drains.
Mr. J. L. STEVENS took this opportunity, as an indi'
vidual, to return his grateful thanks to the medical gen-
tlemen, who had truly proved that they were members of
a liberal profession, who had come there to sympathise
with them, and to ask them to cut away the earnings of
their profession. Those gentlemen said, if they were to
profit by their skill they would only do so under sound,
fair, and reasonable circumstances. He hoped they would
4o on with this movement, and that they would not be
satisfied with the expression of their opinions, but that
that they would go still further. He happened to live
near an open ditch; and three years since be had fre-
quently serious fits of illness in his own family—among
ocher cases, one of typhus fever in consequence of the
ditch. He endeavoured to get the evil remedied—he
fancied it could be easily done; but certainly he never
vas more discouraged than in the attempt he then made.
l'hey were subjected at the time to what was called the
annual cleaning of the sewers. The system was to re-
move the soil from the bottom, to throw it to the side,
and then subject it to a new decomposition by the action
of the atmosphere; which matter ought to have been car'
ried cuff. But he preferred latterly the open ditch, when
left alone, to the stink-holes in the streets. His son had
suffered severely from the effects of the effluvium of those
sewer traps in the Blackfriars-road.
Mr. GILL, of Friar-street, said that one of these gully'
holes had been opened opposite to his dwelling, from the
effluvium of which he and his family suffered most se'
eerely. The stench, as was well known to many present,
4as intolerable. He wrote a letter to Lord Morpetle
.omplaining of the nuisance, on the 21st of March last.
On the 23,t ho received an answer from the office of
Woods and Forests, stating that his complaint should he
immediately attended to and placed before the Commie'
-donors. On the 24th March, a gentleman fom the Coal-
missioners of Sewers called and investigated the case,
Ind promised it should be laid before the Commissioners,
and that he had no doubt that something would be done
so abate the nuisance; but he said he was doubtful
whether they could give him any relief at all, because it
was the duty of the parish to remedy the evil of which
he complained. It appeared, however, that the poor-lavt
auditor had refused to sanction a charge of a similar
character. Thus he was sent from one to the other,
And the nuisance remained. His wife was in delicate
health, and his medical attendant told him that he and
his family were daily inhaling slow poison.—(Shame.)
The resolution, on being put, was carried, with one
dissentient—a young gentleman who was present.
The CHAIRMAN called on .4
Mr. FRANKLIN COXWORTHT, who, at some lengtht
detailed his plans, the principal of which was to erect
high columns on each side of the streets, being carried
up above the chimney, and inserting through it an iron'
rod as a lightning-conductor, and for the purpose of aid'
ing in the electric condensation of the gases. Another
plan was, to raise a column, and he did not see why, se
they were raised for monuments, they should not be
erected for useful purposes, with shafts from the two
sewers on either side of the street, under ground, with
the same chain for the same purposes.—[We cannot
attempt to give other minute and scientific details into
which Mr. Coxworthy entered ; his pamphlet on the
s' Pollution of the Atmosphere" is well worth perusal
Mr. G. LEE STEVENS moved the second resolution.:--'
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that, unless the
openings in the sewers recently made by order of the
metropolitan commissioners of sewers be closed, and 801318
simple and efficient plan of ventilating the sewers 3te
adopted, such, for instance, as that which'Mr. Franklin
Coxworthy has explained to this meeting, the most sr
palling consequences must inevitably follow in the ge:
neral deterioration of the health of the inhabitants and
the increased destruction of life."
Mr. EVANS (a medical officer) seconded this resole'
tion, inasmuch as it was a step in the right direction,
though he did not exactly approve of Mr. Coxworthe4
plan. He could bear witness t ) the deleterious and fate/
effects of the opening the sewers. He had lost a medical
friend, who, while standing in Regent-street waiting/4'
an omnibus, while one of these traps was open, vies
affected by the effluvia which arose, went home and did
shortly after of typhus fever. In one case, where a troll
was opened opposite his house, he had threatened to to"
dict, and the nuisance was put down. He doubted the
efficacy of Mr. Coxworthy's plan, because he feared the
noxious gases would only be blown again through she
chimneys below. As a step to improvement, he wool"'
nevertheless second the resolution.