The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

carrying nut legirlatorially their experienced recommenda-
tions, and the public is untrue and inconsiderate towards
its own dearest interests if it slackens in its endeavours to
obtain a general enactment providing authoritatively for
these matters. As society has been working for centuries
past, it has commenced at the wrong end of the entangled
cord of public interests : in order to disentangle it suc-
cessfully they must now begin at the preventive instead
of the curative end only. Then they will unravel the
tangled and perplexing maze, and every best interest will
be revealed to a delighted mind as the thread of truth and
knowledge yields itself willingly to the fingers of the phi-
lanthropist and the authorized.

The simplicity of the doing of this, will, like the erg of
Columbus, appear to stultity our past acumen, and we
shall, like those around Columbus, when be smashed
down the erg on one of its poles. actually stare at our
former selves, who could tolerate an evil so long, and not
seize the prevention so ready at hand. Public institu-
tions, especially lever hospitals, will be hardly wanted
comparatively, and society, having mastered several of
the physical evils around, can give a less distracted atten-
tion to the enormous and growing evils of the land.
Politics themselves will be simplified and mitigate their
acerbities, for differenoes of kind will then merge into
'differences of degree: and, finally, there will be some
chance of integrity and honesty and worth obtaining the
prize of public esteem—now, alas .so often withheld. The
task set be,ore me, as an individual member of the medical
profession, is limited to the matter of exposing, in the
best way I can, some of those social evils which are most.
glaring and prejudicial to the health of the community.
I have now to bring forward a state of things in
a part of the town very different to those which I have
hitherto noticed, and yet one which requires some change
in its non-sanitary position.
BRUNSWICK•ROAD

has at the back of it a row of houses apparently pleasantly
situated, in having an extended prospect over the fields
towards Everton village. Hence it has been named
Brunswick-view, a name which is correct in more senses
than one; for whilst the green fields form one view, now
rapidly covering with bricks and mortar, yet there is un-
doubtedly another very prominent object to the view ; it
is also in hot weather prominent to the organ of smelling.
It is a sewer which runs down at the foot of the houses,
from their commencement at the top down to the very
bottom of these frontages, when, as it can no longer an—
noy houses at their front, it condescends to sink into a
covered drain at the rear of some other houses, and this it
does just opposite the play-ground door of the Lower
School of the Collegiate.
The bubbling up of this impure fountain at the top
seems to indicate its escape from some covered drain, as
though the water was drained from the Necropolis and
adjacent parts of the Everson and West Derby reads.
I think Gregson's Well opens here too. A part of
this water, muddy and stinking, overflows upon the
field, forming a little marsh, which, from what I have
been told of fevers in the houses near, has not been the
innocent spot, after all, some might take it for, as the
spreading over a surface of drainage water is the very best
way to develope whatever malarious agency, by exposure
Imo evaporation, the fluid may be charged with. But as
a fact is worth a thousand arguments, and should always
he referred to when possible, let us see whether the antis li
lysis of this said water shews or not that it is charged
with any deleterious materials. A word before quoting
this, upon the mode of getting it. I have stated that a
part of the stream overflowed, and sank into the little
marshy bed, or was removed by evaporation, thus of
course leaving a layer of mud behind. At the present
season this is mud ; in the warmer weather, when the
drain is low, it becomes caked and dried up, an occur.
rence worse than its present mud, as every well-inforti ed
person knows. The remainder of the drain courses along
the side of the housei before described, and receiving se-
veral various contributions of ashes, slops, &c &c., from
the tenants, in some parts half-stagnart sin its course, and
thus gives rise to the gaseous exhalations arid other
aggravated evils of clogged-up drains: the escape of
the gas can be seen in the shape of the numerous
bubbles floating along slowly, or stationary upon toe
surface. Shortly before it gets to the end of its open
course, another artificial' contrivance meets your ob-
servation. It may not be so bad a specimen of rustic en-
gineering as it must he in itself injurious to health. A
second deviation of the course of the water is made by a
sluice in the side of the drain. and a reservoir or dam is
formed into which at pleasure a sufficient quantity of Ibe
fluid can he drawn off, and then the sluice closed again.
This pond, so formed, is not as bad as the lake or marsh
above, but the further application of the fluid is nor quite
as innoxious comparatively as leaving the body of water
merely there. A large open pit is formed out of the
ground a Rae lower on the slope of the vacant ground,
and into this a large quantity of straw manure is laid for a
time, and this is moistened occasionally w;th the c..n ents
of the pond baled our upon it. This may be a very good
process for making manure, but near habitations it cannot
be considered a healthy process. It may appear invidious
to make public any private operations; but whenever
these become injurious in their tendencies, they ought to
be regarded as nuisances, and therefore looked after by the
appointed authorities. It may seem hard upon inJivi.
duals, but it is still hard, r upon the community to omit
_the restraining of such rrsances; and it becomes hard
otherwise upon every ratepayer who may be called upon
to contribute towards the maintenance of fever hospitals,
&e., which rate might he greatly reduced if the proper at-
tention was paid to the sanitary questions of the town. In
Birmingham they have now no need of a separate fever
hospital, because they have no fever comparatively. Why
should it not be so eventually here? M least it ought to
be aimed at. Every preventible source of fever is a re-
proach to the town. From this pond water a specimen
was dark-coloured, and yielding a deposit neatly black,
offensive in odour, and when distilled with sulphuric acid
evolving a gas which threw down a black precipitate from
lead salts (iallphuretted hydrogen). One imperial pint
contained 14 grs. of solid matter, one-half of which (7grs.)
was azotised organic matter, making 56 grs. of azotised
(natter in the imperial gallon.
I have referred to Birmingham. I bappend to he there
lately, and went to look at the worst part of the town. I
walked into several of their courts, but I could not detect
anything a hundredth part as bad as may be seen in
Liverpool streets too numerous to nientioo. There are
no cellars at all, angl their courts are open and cleanly.
I was struck at the immensity of the difference--no
wonder their fever wards are so happily shut up. It is
our misfortune to have fever to he cured.
I shall resume next week.—l am, sir, &c.
G. C. WATSON, M.D.

ADVERTISEMENT.]
CLAIRVOYAIsCCE AND ITS BLASPHEMY.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Str.,—There appeared in your paper of the we, k before
last, an invitation to the public, with c, rtifiratfs from
persons well known in this town, to sanction Clairvoyance,
and, of course, its blasphemy against God. I am, how.
ever, glad to say I have a letter from one the indi-
viduals, W. B Hodgson, Esq., of t -Mechanics'
Institu'ion, denying that he ever aut • rised the Goen-
nerns to use any certificate from hi,, or that he believes
in their absurdities. I, is know • to many that these
Goennerns have endeavoured, the metropolis (as tray
be seen by Dr. Forbes's,,Tre Ise on Mesmerism), and
now perseveringly here, to old forth their attempt to
show that they have the ower of God, in foretelling
things to come. and ha • . positive infallibility in curing
disea.es. God simply Is his creatures that "We know
not whit shall be n i he morrow," and that "He will
not give his glory • another ;" but these persons hold
forth blasphemous that they participate in both these
prerogatives of t, e great majesty ..f God alone. It is,
therefore, impO ant for the glory of God, that they
should go no urther, but that their procuring false
certificates, a d other impositions on the public, should
be exposed ; • nd, in addition to craving this pubicity at
your hands, I challenie them to meet me lace to face,
and, with God's help, will bring forth such proof against
their wickedness and lying wonders, as will bring these
enemies of God to his footstool.

I remain, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
THOS. J. HUITON.
50, Bedford-street South, April 23, 1846.

CLAIRVOYANCE AND MR. T. J. HUTTON.

TO THF, EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In reply to the libellous attack of this indivi-
dual, in the last Mercury and Mail, I beg to state, that I
have never procured, or made use of any false certificate,
which I am to prove, if Mr. Hutton will favour
me with hls attendabee at any of my ,siiiiiees which are
publicly announced in the newspapers. I deny that Ma-
dame Goennern ever pretrnded to possess the powr r of
"foretelling things to come." Her power is confined
merely to medical questions in relation to the cure of
diseases. I further beg to rate, that it is my intention
to bring the matter before a court of justice, unless he
make• a public apology, Hod gives a handsome donation
to the charities of Liverpool, as 1 cannot suffer such an
attack on .my character to pass without taking the proper
means of redress.

The whole matter has originated in a spirit of revenge
on the part of Mr. Hutton. which I can show by letters
which I have now in my possession, be having formerly
been under my treatment.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,_______

H. N. GbENNERN.
69, Rodney.s►reet, Liverpool. 271 h April, 1846.

On Wednesday night, Wainwright; one of Lord
Derby's gamekeepers, was shot at, by, it is Pu p pose d
some poachers, on leaving the public-house, Knowsley.
A poacher, named Lyon, has been committed for the
offence.

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