The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday, the
weekly meeting of this board was held at the Workhouse,
Everton, Mr. Ros%ell in the chair. The governor stated
that the Workhouse was nearly full of inmates ; that they
could only accommodate four more adult persons, and had
no more room for boys and girls.—The Rev. W. Badnall
complained that some persons had been removed from
houses where the cholera had broken out, to the Work-
house.—A complaint was made against Mr. Johnson,
medical officer, of having refused, when called upon, to
attend a child attacked with cholera. This led to a long
discussion, and it was ultimately agreed that a committee
be appointed to investigate the matter.—The other busi-
ness was unimportant.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Present,—Messrs.
Henderson, (in the chair,) Fisher, Holt, Mann, Tobin,
Nicol, Molyneux, Rankin, Wocd, Gladstone, Lockett,
Bold, and James Holme.—A communication was read
from the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners,
stating that they could not enter into any arrangement
with the Dock Committee for the establishment of a
depOt for the accommodation of parties emigrating.—A
letter was read from Mr. Chapman, of Southport, com-
plaining of the present position of the buoys at Horse-
bank, and at the entrance of the Ribble, and that they
were liable to lead mariners and fishermen astray. A
conference had been held between the marine surveyor
and the pilots, and they were of opinion that the buoys
were of no use to the navigation of this port, though the
place was under the jurisdiction of Liverpool.—A memo-
rial from the keepers of the Albert Dock warehouses,
relative to their application for an increase of salary from
£l5O to £2OO, was not entertained, as it had been before
discussed, and fully gone into.—A bill was read by the
secretary from the Water Committee, claiming £l2OO for
water supplied to the machinery of the Albert Dock ware-
houses for hoisting. After some conversation upon it,
the subject dropped.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY.-011
Tuesday a special meeting of the vestry was held, to con-
sider the report of the sub-committee of the Workhouse
Committee submitted to the board on the 3rd instant.
The Rev. Rector Campbell occupied the chair. After a
long discussion, the motion to reduce the salary of the
governor (Mr. Evans) was negatived by 11 to 6.—The
Chairman wished, before the vestry separated, to say a
word or two about the system of puffing the cholera by
advertising the number of victims it made every week.
This was not done in the case of the influenza or other
epidemics, though they were equally destructive. Epi-
demics were aggravated by fear. The effect was to in-
crease the alarm. The cholera was a dispensation of
Providence, and, like other dispensations, it was miti-
gated by mercy. When one epidemic appeared, others
disappeared. He believed the mortality from cholera
was not so great as that from typhus fever or influenza.
He had reason to think so, because in 1832, the year of
the cholera, mortality was increased, but in 1834, when
the population could not have been very much augment-
ed, the mortality was still greater than in the cholera year.
In the former it was 5,764 ; in the latter, 5,772. He had
inquired of one of the deputy-registrars in the Dale-street
district, where cholera prevailed very much, for the re-
turns of the last three years ; and he had found, that
during the quarter ending the 30th of June, 1847, the
number of deaths was 804 ; in 1848, it was 216 ; and in
the corresponding quarter of the present year, 344. So
that during this time, when cholera had peen prevailing
very considerably, the deaths in the quarter ending the
30th of June, 1849, had been only 344, while in 1847 they
were 804. He therefore did not think they need be very
much alarmed, or that the public need be very much
alarmed, at the prevalence of this epidemic. It was no
doubt prevailing, and it was a very formidable disease,
which they were bound to do everything they possibly
could to provide against ; but he considered it very un-
fortunate that the deaths shouhl, be gazetted in the. man,

ner they were, inasmuch as it was calculated to excite
needless alarm in the public mind.—Mr. Earle: You are
aware, Mr. Chairman, that it is done by the Health Com-
mittee.—The Chairman : Certainly ; it is not done by us.