The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-16 00:00:00

CITY COURT 01 SEWERS.

At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of
Sewers, held yesterday in the Sewers-office, Guild-
hall, Mr. Deputy Christie in the chair,
Dr. LETIIEBY, the Medical Officer of Health, re-
ported on the state of 175 houses that had been in-
spected during the week, and he submitted a list of
58 places for sanitary improvement. He likewise
reported that he had been obliged to take proceed-
ings against the keeper of a common lodging-house
in St. John's.court, Smithfield, in consequence of his
persisting to allow the rooms to be indecently and
unwholesomely overcrowded after notices to the
contrary; and that the justices before whom he was
summoned had fined him £3 and costs. The medi-
cal officer also reported that the markets and
slaughter-houses had been duly inspected during
the week, and the officers had seized 2,284 pounds
of meat, and 957 head of game and poultry, as
.unfit for human food.. It consisted of 7 sheep, 6
pigs, 13 quarters of beef and 60 smaller joints, be-
sides 2 fawn, 8 haunches of venison, 583 rabbits,
176 wild fowl, 31 geese, 29 ducks, 8 hares, 78
pigeons, and 24 head of game. All the poultry and
game were putrid ; but of the meat 1,1991b5. were
diseased, 1,1041b5. were putrid, and the rest was
from animals that had died from natural causes.
Most of the meat was seized in Newgate-market,
and the poultry in Leadenhall. It has all been de-
stroyed.

The mortality returns for the week are exactly
the average for the corresponding peiriod of the last
six years. The number of deaths was 63. half of
' which was among children of less than five years of
age, and 11 among old persons of 60 and upwards.
The mortality among children in the Eastern and
Western Unions has ben excessively high, for
during the last three Weeks of the present unusually
warm weather it has ranged from 67 to 62 per cent.
of the total mortality. This has not been caused by
the prP valence of zymotic disease, and by a high
;
m°;:tality from tubercular affections, as tabes,
scrofula, and hydrocephalus, diseases which appear
to be excited into action, and, as it were, matured
by the close and warm weather of autumn. Last
week there were 'a deaths from tabes, 3 from infan-
tile diarrhcna, 4 from phthisis, and 2 from hydro-
cephalus. Among the zymotic diseases were 3 from
whooping-cough, 2 from phthisis, 2 from croop, 2
from continued fever, and 1 from infantile diarrhea
—making together 10 deaths from these affections.
There were likewise 3 deaths returned as premature
births, and 2 in childbirth. The influence of the
weather is manifestly to excite the nervous func-
tions, and to promote the growth and activity of
tubercular products.
Mr. DREW, chief clerk, read a letter from Mr. R.
Millar, secretary of the City of London Gas Com-
pany, desiring him to call the attention of the corn-
mis,;ion to the copy of a letter sent to Dr. Letheby,
stating that they had taken a place in Hatton-gar.
den, and fitted it with an apparatus for testing the
gas, and also stating that the company were willing
to Waive their right under the 28th clause of the
new Gas Act, which entitled them to three hours'
notice before the inspector appointed by the com-
mission made his examinations.
Dr. ABRAHAM moved that it be referred to the
engineer and the medical officer to consider the
conditions of the contract for public lighting, having
special reference to the increased illuminating power
of gas to be supplied, and the possibility of carbu-
retting the gas by the process of the Carburetted
Gas Company.
Mr. TUCKER seconded the resolution, which vow;agreed to.

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