The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-10-02 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES.  season ip very great and the ravages of the disease are by no means of a meagre character. The death rate in the various adjacent towns here has been cons-abJy /I.2tga.. %*is iiiid "(4. O*ic, strange to say. the mortality nas been chiefly amongst ,c• children. lt may be lurid that the '-v of  participate iu the enjoyment of the fruit season. 'A reasonable cause may be through the mothers of !l'.••• Children, who are being fed with the breast, partaki • freoly of fruit themselves and conveying to thde • 'lispring the geiins Of that fataldisease to which I have alluded. How any infants are brought tq a pre-, Mature grave by the want of a little consideration on ,the part of their mothers. •  The working claases of Wedneslitn7 are favoured r with an it of news which cannot fail to be of biteroat to 'them. It is proposed to adopt the Public Baths Act. Working men, as a side, are unable to enjoy that luxury—a baths—which their ,richer neighbours can partake of daily, for want of proper accommodatien in their houses for the pnrpose, and so to many the luxury of a bath is unknown. Butlhope it vrillnot be the case much longer, andthat public baths will be erected, at which he who wishes to have a " swim' may do as whenever he pleases.. The establishment of an institution of this kind is al great sanitary aoquisition to any town,' and eanuot fail be prove, as I belie-se will ho the case at Wednes-, liary, of infinite benefit both to the town and popula• tion.  Irishmen are, as a rule, regarded as endowed with spirit of ,galluntry'towards the fair set with which. neithef the gold Seson 'nor ,the eamtv cautions Soot. is credited. WeqUeitten; however, if on either side of the Tweed a couple of stoat young feLlows , would', be feund who would delibersteiy watoh a young lady fling herself'on the breast of a rapid-flowing tide, and gently flow from the .shore of Time to that of of Sornity, without an attempt at rescue. But this is jtiit brim Ifiberidins 'did; for, bit 1 Thursday, it is reported, "a respectably-drcseed I woman, after announcing her intention to commit 1 suicide to a couple 'of ruing Irishmen who stood at the foot. of the Adel p* Stairs, deliberately alyelitte d herself ollier'bognet end sham'. The onIool: 4re' made no attempt to restrain leer; She walked bite the water, wan carried away by the tide, sad dreeened.." After th.le, let the rhapsodical writers on enthnsiwire, mad gallantry "Stow. it .pqt;fai¢ believe that three. l'enovrned Hoer,. inineferelo I4shffren as the'Topley-streat trio to ths **ogle of England, .  Itow are the sniglity fallen ! The millibar for St,oke,ll his on jeifi.nal, the noteriene Pt. ipoloninti; is to i)o'bolfevei; hai descended to s.nliterfirka.  a. live, vane I . A commuuica, meat Board setting did not provide for th. I' :a i 11 ThrolPrnreott'e CI, omission was provided for by , _ ... eff ' mst year ... ... SI Ofoi:..xleentrithurr. - _ Paupers• . District. 1 Ependtr..l 11..,iitivd. Total . 122 18 6 ' .... 1723 ...119 11 7 . . 1671 There wad no bludness of importance. , WEEKLT erkrisTl -is. . , The astr'e s weekly returns were aS follows : M' . ealmilted, Mirid..l4, the week .., ... ..,. ::G Thsehorgec Itainaining in the house ... ... ... 611 Corresoon liag weer last year ... ... e 75 I,w:rant. relieved ... ... ... ~ so Imbeciles in House .., ... ... .., 17.7 Lunatles in AsylaFa ... ... ~ ... 159 Children in Se4bol ... ... ... ... 133 . Children Th.dustrial Trahnug... ... ... i....) Be. in eorreenonding week hat year ... 234 3 Gerreepending week ... ... ' ego It's. Of I.