The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

City Sewe s Commission.

The Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London met
in the Sewers Court-room, at Guildhall, on Tuesday, for
the despatch of public business. Mr. Deputy De Jersey,
the chairman of the commission, presided, and there was
a large attendance of members.
The first part of the sitting was occupied in the hearing of
applications for cellar flaps, shop fronts, and other projec-
tions over the public ways of the City, and subsequently
three summonses taken out against Mr. Starkey, one of
the contractors under the commission, were disposed of.
Two of them related t) neglect in cleansing certain streets
in the City, and the third to neglect in the removal of dust
from one of the houses within his district.
After hearing the several summonses at length, fines
amounting to £l3 were imposed.

DISEASED MEAT.
Dr. LETIIEBY, the medical officer of health, presented a
report stating that during the past week the markets and
slaughter-houses of the City had been duly inspected, and
that the officers had condemned 8,4991 b. of moat as unfit
for human food. It consisted of 30 sheep, 6 pigs, 35 calves,
17 quarters of beef, and 225 joints of meat. Nearly the
whole of the meat was in a putrid state. He added, that on
Thursday last one of the inspectors seized in Newgate-
market three-quarters of a cow in a very diseased condi-
tion, which were condemned by Mr. Alderman Salemons
as unfit for human food. It was now submitted that the
case was of sufficient importance to require investigation
with a view to legal proceedings.
The matter was referred to the solicitor to make the
necessary investigation accordingly.
Dr. LETIIEDY further stated that in consequence of the
large amout of slaughtering now carried on in several of the
slaughter-houses in Newgate-market he found that they were
not sufficiently cleansed, and were becoming very offensive.
In one case which occurred on the Saturday previous the
offal had accumulated to such an extent as to be a nuisance
from its putrefactive condition, when it .was removed. He
therefore suggested that orders should be given to the
inspectors to summon before the magistrates the persons
who neglected to perform the cleansing of their slaughter-
houses in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
commission.

The recommendation was agreed to, and the inspectors
of markets and slaughter-houses were instructed to proceed
in the manner suggested.
THE GAS SUPPLY.
Upon the subject of the gas supply to the City during
the past week, Dr. Letheby reported that the illuminating
power of the gas had been..censtantly above the require-
ments of the Act of Parliament, and the average propor-
tionPeCeeCrntral Company's gas had
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on three occasions been excessive, and the gas of the Char-
tered Company had been overcharged with ammonia.
It was decided that a copy of Dr. Letheby's report should
be forwarded to each of the companies supplying the City
with gas.
A communication was read from the parish of St. Mary,
operation of the City authori-
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to induce the water com-
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a deputation should be appointed to wait on the
companies with that object; and also that petitions should
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be presented to both Houses of Parliament for such an
amendment of the Metropolis Water Act, 1862, as shall
compel the companies to adopt a constant instead of the
present intermittent supply.
The matter was referred to the General Purposes Com-
mittee for consideration.

After disposing of some other business, the commissioners
adjourned.

THE NEGLECTED CONDITION OF THE DEAF AND
DUMB.—England, with its deaf and dumb popula-
tion of 12,236, supports 11 institutions for their education,
containing together about 1,000 pupils ; Scotland supports
5, with about 240 inmates ; and Ireland 7, with about 400
pupils —about one-twelfth of a class of un-
inmates : making in all 23 school; with accommodation
s who have been described as " deficient in
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the sense most important to the intellectual and spiritual
nature of man," whose need of education is most urgent,
and whose claims upon our pity are both powerful and
just. There are, therefore, 18,671 deaf-mute; out of the
20,311 in this country, for whom no recognised means of
instruction are provided. Many of these are, no doubt,
instructed privately; but, supposing we admit that 5,000 (?)
have received some sort of education, there still remains
more than 15,000 in a state of mental destitution—the ma-
jority young and capable of instruction. In the Metropolis
alone there are 1,819 deaf-mute; and there is school ac-
commodation for about one-sixth only of that number.—
How to ZittCate the Deaf and Dumb, by J, copicston.