The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-12-06 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

COXIIITTEE.  This committee met on the 2nil inst.. when it we, resolved that the owners of proport) iu cud Stlveeter-sipeare be called upon to a:iati• the nu:minces there by tusking proper drat., out eulan,etag theta with the patilie newere. The Surveyor statcil twit the engiuee had been etarted and worked eery satisfaeterily, hat at present the well did not topple a eullicient quaatity of *water for condensing purpeaeo. Tenders ware opened for the erection of a cottage, at the puininug station. The anionnta worn .093, out .£4OO, and the first, that of Messin Mclior and Skid:, was aceypted subject to certain conilitions.—The Iledicel IM:ter tif llcalth (Mr. 1. M. Taylor) reported the regietratiou of eighty-three birdie in the borengh, ref reasaliug an worn al rate of increase of 31'1 per TOW, and 33 deethe, equal to an annual mortality et 13 2 per 1,000 of the ea:Minted population. For the same manila ia inTO the birth-rate woe 42.7, and the built rote 192 per 1,1100. Of LI-mile:Atha last mouth twelve were under lien your. of age, equal to 117.5 per cent, of the total, or to en annual mortatity of 11 per 1,0-10 of the esimated population. Wine of the deaths were in adult* over silty yetis, nail 19 in male* and 14 Centel.. The cane's of drat!, ocr. Eitterie fever, 11; diarrhisa, 2 ; lead poisoning, 1 • eaucer, 1 ; consuinntion, it; paralysis, 2 ; celtlVUloilollo, 4: heart dierise' 1; of the reapi• rater: organs, ; premature birth, 1 ; teething 3; old ago (20).1; suicide, I ; ceases ill-dot:mil, 2. Ills birth. rate W. tepid to the average. Mt: death-rate continued low, although little anise that of October. Bytnetic dive.oa were mum prevalent, sad the ittfaitt mortality leae. Deaths from enteric fryer had occurred in Crol barest, Wood-etreet. and Sacyd•Brect, in the lent 60.0 other nietnlecie war,' einyolescent from tile {Milo %Naga.. With 11, liatiit try Committee he Lel viaitol a ilwelline•hothic in Pell-street, whieh wes found to be in a very bad een.;ition, las was Itow in the course of improve:neut. Also Wigley'a•square, where the anti:nye and privy neemnutedation were very defective. Also the beck•patsage between Dale-street and New portStreet Man in a very bad condition. --Mr. O. Bargees, eaniter) mepectOr, reported the extent of lain visits, and that he had discovered 21 mai , eimeisting of 4 defective drat.: 2 he.ou not drehuna, 2 defeutive yerdc, arid 1 ease 0: nueleenliacsa, and Lad served notice* for thaar :144100,5111, liIMANCS—TIIIi SIM  Ia insivtup the adoption of the Niaarire Conitrltter, Mr. Alderman Lawton said that the tatithateti of the committee were Win exiealcd. 'the eetimete for the general sanitary alrellbea wed £730 per bear, and the expenses had already amounted to £773, or a little more than nine mouths on the estimate. When they mime to wok at the farm espeuditure they found it to be a nalleil more aerie. matter. Ik, estimate was £1,723 fir tire year, and the expenditure up to the present was .C 1,927 or £2OO more than the estnnate for the year. The farm was tatimated to produce £7OO, and this for kin menthe would be 4390. instead of this £lll only hod been realised, so that there was £250 leis than e itimatod. If this went Oil the rata,, high as they were, would have te le, still hislrx next Jar.—lti moriug net is !option of the Sanitary Committee, Mr. Alderman 13 imitou saki that the estimates had beau made no low ea p. seible. They had been obliged to cleat, out some Sr were. and had the work not been done they would very lii ely.bave karst, in which case the Council would have been mulcted in .sareases for injury to other people'e Pr operty. Every client had been made, and would be iota., 10 keep the expenaes down as low an possible.— Md. Clarke, duateunin of the Manua Suldeommittee, repot-aid that • cousiderable amount of the expenditure WAY .0 131,,,A, alia that he could rely on the amount of Cos receipts lictug up to the estimate. Ye further stated that the edii.ete far the farm expeuditare unto draining wan needed, or several fielde wonl.l be II holed and rendered nuproductave. Thou,th the harvest had been had, the amount that had been estimated would, he thought, lie realitieli from the farm produce. The Joist would :tot pay may part of the cost of drainage.  • Tan ant°. OW TOO CRNETiIIIf