The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

WAVERTREE LOCAL BOARD
OF HEALTH.

LAST NIGHT the monthly meeting of the board was held
in the public offices Wavertree, the Rev. W. Badnall,
chairman of the board, presiding. There were-also present
Messrs. Hill, Anderton, Davis' Witham, Gore, Chaffer, and
Rishton. The business took principally a conversational
turn, in the course of which, complaint was made as to the
dilatoriness exhibited in completing the sewer in the main
street. The board remarked that although they consi-
dered Mr. Blaikely, the contractor, had not proceeded
so quickly with his operations as they had reason to
think he ought to have done, still they were led to believe
that his progress bad been materially delayed in consequence-
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Blaikely not having removed the soil in some instances.
It was resolved to intimate these facts to Mr. Blaikely,
and to remind him that the termination of his contract, the
Ist of November, was near at hand. Letters were read from
several gentlemen, complaining of defective drainage ; among
others, a note was read from Mr. Quail, stating that the old
Chapel, in Waterloo-street, was injured in its foundations by
water, which should be removed by drainage. The note con-
cluded by a suggestion that the chapel might be taken by the
board as an hospital, at -'3O a year, " these cholera times."
The Board directed all those letters to be courteously an-
swered, verbally, as was agreed on, by some of the members,
or in writing by the clerk. Some conversation next ensued
RS to the propriety of erecting public lamps in courts; but
after a wort consideration, it was resolved that the lioa r d
could not interfere in the matter.—The Chairman then di-
rected the attention of the Board to a recently issued
regulation of the Prescot district magistrates, relative to the
clearance of middens. He remarked that under that regula-
tion parties had proceeded to clear out pig-styes and other
nuisances during the day. He instanced a case in which be
had himself been exposed to considerable annoyance in Cow-
lane. On inquiry lie found that the nuisance he complained
of was made on the understanding that it was necessary to
comply with the order issued by the magistrates. He (the
chairman) wished to know whether the magistrates were,
under any statute, entitled to override and set at nought the
bye-laws of the board; because, if so, the mandates of the
board must become ft dead letter. He trusted the board was
not prepared thus to have their functions superseded. It
was suggested that Mr. Allen, the superintendent of police,
might in this case have misunderstood the instructions of
the magistrates; and it was agreed to instruct the law clerk
of the board to write to him on the subject, pointing out the
encroachment, which had no doubt inadvertently been made
on the powers of the board. The meeting then adjourned.

STRANGE DEATH vnom CHOLERA.—Yesterday, an in-
quest was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., the coroner, on
view of the body of John O'Donnell, a child, ten years of
age, who resided with his parents, No. 6 court, Wright-
street. On Friday evening, the deceased, who had been out
all day, brciught in with him a handful of dirty sugar, mixed
with guano, and said that he had been eating, some. He
was taken very ill with pain in the bowels soon after-
wards, and died at eight o'clock the next morning. Mr.
J. D. Kelly, surgeon, who made a post mortem examina-
tion, deposed that death had resulted from cholera. One
of the jury wished the coroner to notify to the au-
thorities the filthy state of the house and court
in which the poor child died. The Coroner observed that
the end would be answered, perhaps better, as he observed
two reporters present. Well might we have cholera
raging in the town, when human beings were huddled in
a cellar not fit for pigs. There was the Indy lying in a
perfect Mate of audit,