The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

SELECT VESTRY.—A special meeting of this body was
held on Tuesday, to receive tenders for the supply of
goods to the workhouse, and also the report of the com-
mittee appointed to report on the duties and salaries of
the workhouse officers, &c. The Rev. Rector Campbell
occupied the chair. The board first proceeded to consider
the tenders sent in, after which the report of the sub-com-
mittee was read. The report states that great neglect and
inaccuracy exists in the clothing account of the workhouse,
and recommended the dismissal of the matron, Mrs.
Todd. The committee cannot acquit the governor of
blame in this matter. The committee then recommended
the appointment of an efficient matron, at a salary of £lOO
a year, and that the governor's salary be fixed at £2OO.
The consideration of the report was adjourned.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—A letter was read from the
Board of Ordnance, deciding to retain the present site for
the new battery, on the north shore, and approving of
the plans submitted by Mr. Hartley, with the access to
the shore by means of bridges, the cost of which will be
about £6OOO. The work was ordered to be proceeded
with, there being no hope of inducing the Board to con-
sent to a removal of the site further north. The annual
report of the surveyors of the work done and in progress
was submitted, and ordered to be printed. The total
amount expended during the year, in new works, was
£232,374 18s. 7d., and in repairs £20,610 13s. 7d. In
response to a memorial, complaining of porters landing
luggage from the Monks' Ferry Railway boat, at the time
the passengers were landing, it was agreed to write to the
owners of the boat on the subject.
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the usual weekly
meeting of this body, oil Thursday, Mr. J. A. Tinne oc-
cupied the chair. Mr. Turner, the chairman of the
watch-committee, and Mr. Dowling, the head constable,
attended, as a deputation, to protest against the appro-
priation of the house next to Vauxhall bridewell as a cho-
lera hospital. The chairman said they had nothing to do
with the hospitals, the matter rested with the Select Ves-
try. The medical officer of health reported an increase
of 62 in the number of deaths during the week, occa-
sioned by the increased prevalence of cholera. The total
number of deaths was 378, the previous week 316. The
deaths from cholera 179, against 112 the previous week.
There were 145 of the deaths from cholera in the parish
of Liverpool, and ninety-six of these occurred in Vaux-
hall, Scotland, and Exchange wards. The practice of
whitewashing the interior of houses in which cholera pa-
tients had died had not been carried out. Although the
health committee had offered, to give the lime and supply
the brushes, the vestry refused to give the use of a couple
of buckets. This appeared to most of the members a
very extraordinary proceeding. The engineer reported
that, from the 26th June to the 2nd July, 514 courts and
passages had been washed out, and 1,575,860 gallons of
water used for cleansing the same. A memorial, praying
for the sewering of Hill-street, was read, but the com-
mittee have no funds. They have only £5,000 for sewer-
ing purposes for the year in Toxteth-park, and £4,000
have been appropriated for the outlet sewers. It was di-
rected that, as the Dock Committee were not paving Sef-
ton-street to the satisfaction of the borough engineer,
notice should be sent to them that they must maintain
the street at their own cost.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The monthly meet-
ing of this body was held on Tuesday evening. Mr.
Richard Bryans, jun., in the chair. A committee was
appointed to meet a deputation from the Railway Com-
pany, for the purpose of making arrangements for the
settlement of disputes between the Commissioners and
the Company.—The proceedings of the Health Committee
contained, amongst other things, a minute, ordering that
certain property belonging to Mr. Appleton, the chairman
of the committee should be effectually drained.—The
Finance Committee recommended that Mr. Waln, the
town clerk, should not in future act as the solicitor to the
Dock Commissioners, on the ground that in some respects
their interests clashed, but that he should be at liberty to
take private practice. His salary to be £5OO a year.
After some discussion, it was resolved that the town
clerk's appointment should be for twelve months certain.
and at the expiration of that time he held his situation
subject to six months' notice.—From the proceedings of
the Ferry Committee it appeared that the receipts from
the Ist to the 30th of June, in 1848 and 1849, were
respectively as follows : 1848, £1,329 19s. 3d.; 1849,
£1,840 13s. sd. From the 23d of April to the 30th of
June, in 1842, they were : 1848, £3,477 14s. Bd. ; 1849,
£4,125 9s. 10d. The total expenditure from the 23rd of
April to the 30th of June, 1849, was £4,022.185. 5d., in-
cluding half a year's interest of £1,200 to, Mr. Price's
trustees. The proceedings also recommended that the
contractors at the Woodside Ferry be allowed to cross at
the Monk's Ferry, on showing their tickets, An amend-
ment was proposed on this and negatived,-and the motion
for the adoption of the report was carried, the Chairman
observing that every facility should be given to parties
crossing the river, in consequence-of the Liverpool Corpo-
ration having reduced the contracts of the Birkenhead
Ferry. Mr. Ravenscroft observed' that the Corporation
might offer to carry people over f6r nothing, and give
them a lunch in the cabin, but that they would not get
the passengers, as the Wood,side Ferry. was aemuch more
convenient.