Widnes Examiner. — 1881-01-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE NEW HEDICAL OFFICER'S QVARTSRLY REPORT. Mr. J. G. BRIDE, medical officer, reported that during the quarter ending 31st December, 1880, the registrar's returns recorded 150 births, and 74 deaths, in the three districts comprised in the Runcorn Union. Of the births 79 were males and 71 females; of the deaths 38 were males and 37 females; 18 were under 5 years of age, 13 of these being under, one year, and 56 were five years and upwards. During the corresponding quarter of last year there were 144 births and 88 deaths. The new medical officer called the attention of thre authority to the low death rate of last year which compared favourably with that of the corresponding quarter of last year there being 13 deaths less: The births were six over the number which occurred during the corresponding period of last year. The district since his appointment had been almost free from zymotic diseases. Typhoid fever accounted for one death which occurred in the workhouse. There had been another case, but death did not result. Bronchitis accounted for 13 deaths, and this he attributed to the changeable character of the weatar during the winter. THE HELSBT SEWERAGE SCHEME Mr. MIDWOOD moved that the resolution which the Board came to a month ago, to carry out the scheme for the s-werage of Helaby be rescinded, and that the ratepayer's scheme, which was explained to the Board in the memorial read at the last meeting, be adopted in its stead. Mr. LOWE seconded the motion.  AT. t. Mr. Midwood then laid a plan before the Authority, and explained what.the ratepayers' scheme was. It was considered at some length by the Board, and eventually Mr. Asifrox moved an amendment that the carrying out of the scheme of the Authority be deferred for three months so as to give the owners of property from which the nuisance arose an opportunity of abating the nuisance without the intervention of the Authority. Mr. Mchrricus seconded the amendment, which was carried unanimously. Mr. MIDWOOD agreed to withdraw his motion, Mr. CHALtorrEn remarked that the ratepayeri of Helsby were all at sea about the ratepavers' scheme. Mr. Mrovroma protested against Mr. Challoner making rthy such remarks, as the ratepayers were not at sea. Every ratepayer had been seen, and the whole thing explained to them as clear as it could be; and how Mr. Challoner could make such statements he could not Tinderstond. Mr. Crrattoxam : He wants to make it appear that I am speaking untruths. The CHAIRMAN : I did not understand what you said in the face of the memorial which was signed by 123 ratepayers. ' Mr. CrtartolcErt : There are more than 123 ratepayers. What has become of the rest? What do others say? More than one, or two, or three have been to me about it, who had never been asked to sign the memerial, and some who have signed—if they had had the thing properly explained to them—would never have done so. If Mr. Midwood speaks untruths I do not come here to speak untruths. Mr. Mtnwoort explained that what he said was, be did not know what Mr. Challoiser could say in the face of a ' memorial signed by 123 inhabitants in a little village like Helsby. He did not say that Mr. Challoner had been saying what was not true. The CHAIRMAN thought Mr. Challoner might have heard one or two complaints, bnt forgotten that the memorial had been sieved by 123 ratepayers. Mr. CHALLONER was still of opinion that many ratepayers knew nothing of the scheme. The subject then dropped, and the meeting terminated." Evidence of a horrible murder has just come to light at Lyons. A weir keeper on the Rhone on Wednesday withdrew from the water a sack in which he discovered the mutilated remains of a young woman wrapped in packing cloth. Each limb had been adroitly severed from the body', and the face bore several wounds. The police have as yet obtained no clue to the perpetrators of the crime. pPS'S