The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

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CAUTION TO PERSONS ALIO Tv 111
DOGS TO GO AT LARGE.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, Samuel Holme, Esq., the
Mayor, spoke to the following effect relative to the danger
arising from allowing dogs to ,go at large during the pre-
sent hot weather. He said :—I have obtained the sanc-
tion of Mr. Mansfield to interrupt the progress of the
court, whilst I maim a few observations on a subject which
I conceive to 'be of very great importance. From -the in-
formation which I have received—a variety of information
which I received some time ago —I felt it my duty as chief
magistrate of Liverpool to issue the usual notice, ordering
all persons to keep their dogs within their houses.
informations have been laid by the police, and the t
day, when I sat as a magistrate, .some of Op—
tions came before me ; in the 1,--

would, during the present hot weather, keep their
dogs within their houses, I merely inflicted the
penalty of one shilling, and one shilling costs. The penalty
for disobedience may be, I believe, £5. This morning I
counted no less than 27 mongrel dogs between the top of
Faulkner-street and the top of Bold-street, all loose in the
street, and proNylilig about. On Saturday last a very

serious

case of hydrophobia occurred, in consequence of a man
'having been bitten by a dog six weeks ago ; and on last
Saturday week a lady was severely 'bitten in the leg by a
dog, which was roaming at large. On Saturday last, a
-youth, returning from school, was attacked by a bull-dog,
and I saw the case, and his flesh is lacerated in the most
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horrible manner. I received a 'letter from a lady this
morning, who says she was likewise attacked by a dog in
the public streets, some days ago, and that she has not
since been able to leave her house, in consequence of the
number of dogs prowling about in the streets. It would
be far better, indeed, that all the dogs in Liverpool were
destroyed than that one solitary case of hydrophobia
—the greatest scourge that human nature knows—
should occur. lam exceedingly sorry that the sur-
veyor of assessed taxes does not ascertain the per-
sons to whom those dogs belong, and make every one
of them pay the full duty ; for from information which I
received I have no doubt whatever that, for three out of
every four dogs in Liverpool, no duty is paid at all. I
have this morning directed that the police should be offi-
cially informed, that in every case in whici
prowling about the public streets, it is tl

is a dog

duty to lay

an information ag,tu:ns t the owner

end I state it

publicly, in hopelhatpvery policema7 -n---1-0;o sees a dog In

the put
belongs

reets wall summon the parties to who
and if he has reasonable gropnds for belie

that a dog is in a rabid state, or may have been bitten by
another dog in a rabid state, he is then empowered and
charged by the law to destroy that dog: .2nd I ask Mr.
Mansfield acid my brother magistrates to join me in my
endeavour to put an end to such a fearful evil as that, by
levying a very heavy penalty on every individual sum-
moned here during the present hot weather for permit-
ting a dog to go at large, and so endangering the safety
and the lives, of the whole of the inhabitants. I hope the
remarks which i have felt it my painful but public duty to
make, will be attended to by for I, for one, am deter-
mined, so far as the law gives me power, to prevent the

continuance of a nuisance Which is of such a feaifu:

Mr. Mansfield then 'directed the 'magistrates' clerk to
report the names of all parties summoned for allowing
dogs to go at large to the surveyor of assessed taxes.
Mr. Garnett said that was always done.

The Mayor : I hope a list will be kept of every perso
summoned to this court, and I'll take care it is trans,
mitted to the surveyor of assessed taxes.

Mr. John Hohneii also strongly reprobated the habit of
allowing dogs to prowl about the streets.

CITILD KILLED.—A little boy, named Thomas Davies,
two years and a-half old, residing with his mother, at 9,
Marshall-place, Arley-street, died on Sunday, the result of
injuries received from being run over hy a spring-cart, a
few days ago. The father of the boy was killed about two
months since, by a bale of cotton falling on him.
Cmy.,n OvEßLAlN.—Francis Scarry, a child 9 weeks
old, was found dead in bed, at 22, Marybone, by its mother,
yesterday morning.
DEATH FROM DEZNIZENNESS.—A widow, named Mary
Monday, sixty-six years of age, residing at 19, Portland-
street, whilst drunk early on Sunday morning, fell down
the cellar steps, and so injured her head that she died in
a few minutes afterwards. She was an habitual drunkard.
An inquest will be held this day.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Peter Ward, of No. 3 Court, Perry-
street, fell into the hold of the ship Persia, lying in the
Prince's Dock, on Thursday last. He was immediately
afterwards conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he
died on Sunday morning from the injuries received by
the fall.

DRAT)" PROM HTDROPROBLL—A man named Hugh
Jones, residing at 15, Holland-street, Toateth-park, died
on Saturday last, of hydrophobia, having been bitten by a
mad dog belonging to Thomas Vernon, of Woolton, about
two months since, after which the dog was destroyed.
Jones became seriously ill on Tuesday last, and died in
agonies on Saturday. An inquest will be held this day,
before Mr. Statlutm,- deputy-coroner.
DEA.TII OF A SRAMLN.—Peter Painter, thirty-five years
of age, a sailor on board the ship Grand Bonny, which
arrived yesterday in the river, from Bonny, received an
injury in the foot eleven weeks ago, in consequence of the
anchor slipping, and the cable running across his foot.
He was confined to bed during the whale of the passage.
Yesterday, he was removed in a car to the Northern Hos-
pital, but his wife interfered ; and, although every prepa-
ration had been made at the hospital for his reception, she
insisted upon taking him to his own residence, 48,Clement-
street. When the poor fellow reached there he was found
to be dead. "Au inquest will be held this day. .