Widnes Examiner. — 1900-10-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NIIIS-ANCE INSPECTOR. Mr Thomas Wright moved :—That Mr James Farrington be re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances and Inspector under the Dairies, Cowsheds. and Milk_ihops Order, 1885, for one year ending 29.11 day of September, 1901, at a salary at the rate of £l9O per annum, and that he be re-appointed Inswctor of Canal boats for the same period at a salary at the rate of £lO per annum, and that the sanction of the Local Gove.rnment B3ard be requested thereto. - - .  Sir. J. Mclntyre seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.  THE ALLEGED THELWALL NUISANCE Mr. R. A. Naylor wrote as follows to the Clerk under date October 22nd :—Dear Sir,—Yours of the 13th. In reply let me state that my last letters contain the truth and nothing but the truth. It may be hard to quietly submit to be called a liar, but I think my general zeputation will not bear this out. I notice Messrs Long and Son have already,in a letter to your Council charged your Medical Officer with duplicity, and so have saved me the trouble. Of course, your officials being entrusted with such positions show your Council consider them to be truthful, honest, 'honourable and sober, and fit and proper persons to discharge their obligations to the public, but there is such a mass of contradictions to be dealt with that letter- writing will not suffice. Admiral Jones-Parry has been addressing our Parish Council on the subject, and he states (quite rightly) the newspapers give the public a very erroneous idea of the matter. How can they do otherwise when such letters as mine of August 24th are not given to the reporters? Here are the closing remarks of report of samples of effluent mentioned in m 7 last :—" The above aealyses snow Cha.7, these samples contain a large quantity of organic matter of animal origin together with some tannin. They are v.3ry bad with a most offensive smell. The presence of free lime would tend to arrest advanced putrefactive changes for a short time, but these samples contain such a large amount of putriscible matter and their present condition is so bad that I am of opinion they certainly ought not to be run into any open sewer." Please note these samples were taken after filtration and were the essence of purity compared with what we bad when our coachman's children died through the smell. Don't you think it is almost time the cause of the nuisance should be ascertained. Probably the Yorkshire gentlemen who • invented the process might be induced to explain these modern methods of tanning to you. I will not trouble you; with all the cases of sickness which have occurred since your last meeting. Please allow me ta claim your valuable time to notice one. On Monday last a medical officer of health came here with a friend for the afternoon. Result—knocked down with the smell, lingered between life and death. Which was it to be? was the question indicated by the anxious looks of those around. Gentlemen of the Runcorn District Council I give you in one word this doctor's opinion of this nuisance—" murder."—Yours truly, R. A. Naylor. Mr. Clarke: Surely we are not guilty of murder are we? A Member: Yes ; every one of us. Mr. Linaker : Are we supposed to be a Coroner's jury. (Laughter.) The letter was laid on the table.