The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

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Loch e's request for a statement aboving a comparative
expense of -.ovine making at Wolverton and Crewe. Mr.
Glyn suggested the question should -stand over, as a com-
mittee was sitfimg on the subject, and fr. Locke expressed
himself satisfied. The report, after some further debate,
Was then adopted, and the routine bpsiness having been
disposed of, the meting adjourned at half-past two.
1111A_LTH Gomairrrn.—The weekly 'peeling was held
on Thursday, -Present: Messrs. Langsdple (chairman);
Moss, Dover, Fleming, Beckwith, Nicholson, Johnson,
Halhead, Hodson, Gladstone, M`Nicol, and-GodfreY.
Newlands, the borough engineer, reported valious partieu-
lars'of the work done and in hand in his department. Mr.
Fresh, the inspector, of nuisances, reported the .emptying
of 1139 cesspools, thejuspection of 88 nuisances.complained
of by inhabitants, and the reference of 44 others to the
borough engineer for remedy by drainage, St-c, with a
detail of the other operations of his staff, including particu-
Jars of a sanitary examination of 1732 court house~; and
:9.72 cellars, formerly cleared of inmates, in the lower parts
*of the town. The medical officer reported that the returns
for the week showed the mortality to be still much below
the average of the season. The deaths in the borough
'were 4.70 fewer than in any corresponding week of the six
previOW3 years, and 62 less than the average, excluding-the
cholera, of 1849. From diseases of the lungs and consump-
tion -the deaths were only 37,a smaller number than in
any -wool( of the three years preceding. Bowel complaints
caused 37 deaths. In the same -week of last year, when
the temperature was three degrees higher, the morta-
lity from bowel complaints was more than double, the
deaths being eighty-six. At the same time the general
mortality amounted to 286, being 116 more than in the
last week. Typhus last week caused only four deaths;
measles, scarlatina, and hooping cough each five ;
chicken pox one. One death was registered from
delirium tremens. The medical officer reported that he
had inspected the premises of Mr. Thomas Irvine, lard
refiner, Henry-street, and he was of opinion that the com-
plaint of the inhabitants relative to a nuisance was well
founded. It had existed for two or three years, so far as
the complaints of the inhabitants were concerned, but
hitherto there had not been sufficient evidence as required
by the provisions of the Health Act. In reply to a question,
a member of the committee said it was the fat from the
slaughter-houses which was refined, and it was full of
maggots.—The chairman said he believed it was the fat
rendered down, put into small kegs, and sold for lard.—
Mr. Godfrey understood it was used for engineering pur.
poses.—Mr. Moss : You should be cautious m puffing it
in that way.—The Chairman : I have been told so. He
added, that he understood it was meat in a state of putre-
faction.—The clerk, on being referred to, read the clause
in the act of parliament, from which it appeared that the
nuisance complained of came within the jurisdiction of
the committee. It was agreed that the usual notices
should be given by the clerk, with a view to the abatement
of the nuisance.--The Borough-engineer brought forward
his estimates as to the paving of Wavertree-road, between
Duke-street, Edge-hill, and the railway bridge. If paved
with square sets alone, the expense would be £5048 6s.
with square sets and wheelers, as suggested by Mr. Glad-
stone, £6991; and with macadam, having 12 feet of square
sets on each side, £4166. After a short discussion, the
subject was postponed for a week.—A memorial from
several inhabitants of Castle-street, relative to the wet
state of their cellars, which they attributed to the disturb-
ance. of the water-pipes in taking up the street IXlVeMent,
was referied to the borough-engineer. .