Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1871-12-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

GUARDIANS.  The usual fortnightly meeting of Guardians of the Stockton Union was held this (Wednesday) morning, at the Clerk's office, Borough Hall, Stockton. There were present Messrs Marshall Fowler (chairman), J. Grey, A. C. Knowles, J. F. Wilson, W. Manners, Rev. Canon Hull, Rev. T. Law, G. Lockwood, J. Laing, J. Dodshon, H. Thompson, J. Hunton, W. Whitwell, G. Watson, C. Trotter, W. Thompson, J. Harwood, T. Garbutt, G. Reed, W. Best (clerk), W. M. Best (assistant clerk), IL L. Pearson, R. Atkinson, J. Stobart (relieving officers), and G. Hopper (workhouse master), who,e statement respecting, paupers in the house since last meeting was as follows :—Men in the house, 90 ; women, 59; boys, 59 ;girls, 72-; children, 29 ; total, 309 ; do. last Board day, 307; increase, 2; total corresponding day of last year, 276 ; increase, 33. Died during the fortnight, 0; born, 0. Minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. The Clerk produced a letter from the Local Government Board, authorisiug the grants to police officers for relieving vagrants. As to the appointment of vaccination inspectors, the Board had sent down a list of queries respecting the qualifications of the candidate", which would have to be filled Up and returned.—The Clerk laid before the Board an account from Mr Brotherton, secretary of the Cottage Hospital, claiming £7 on account of patients named William Hornsby and Thomas Howard, who had been admitted as patients at the hospite'. —Mr Pearson said he knew nothing about the cases. —Mr Laing said that the Board did not send the men to the hospital, which was a public charity kept for the purpose of receiving such ewes. They had nothing to do with it.—Mr Whitwell understood that both these were cases which otherwise ought to have gone to the workhouse. As the hospital had been put to the cost, the committee thought it would only he reasonable to ask the Guardians to pay for the maintenance of these persons.—Mr Watson said Viet if once they admitted a ease of this description, they would have applications by the score at Middlesbrough. If once the principle was admitted there would be no end to it.—The matter was ultimately referred to the Clerk for a report upon the special circumstances of the cases.—ln reply to Mr Wilson as to what had been done with regard to vaccination prosecutions, Mr Pearson said there were only six cases of children who were found unvaccinated. The parents had promised to get them done, so he did not think there were any occasion to take proceedings at present.—The seal of the Board was affixed to a deed transferring the sight of sonic old cottages, at Longnewton, to the vicar and churchwardens, in trust, for the parish, it being intended to erect schools thereon with the sanciion of the parishioners.—Mr Pearson laid before the Board accounts of 21s for hearse and mooning coach, Sc for drivers, and 8s 6d for burial fees, incurred in connection with the midnight funeral of the suicide John King.—ln answer to the Rev. Canon Hull, he said that neither the man nor his wife had received parochial relief. The woman still remained. Her head was severely cut. She liad no money, but some nephews. Mr Wilson: Who went in the coach ?—Mr Pearson: The policeman and bearers.—The Chairman: Will the auditor pass this!—Mr Knowles moved that the bills be paid. —The Chairman : They must be paid by some one. —The Clerk : I will charge it in the usual way, but it will never pass. —The Chairman : It is one of those things which we cannot help.—Mr Wilson : Did not the parish doctor attend her ?—Mr Pearson : Yes, sir.—The Chairman : It is very awkward.—The motion was then adopted.—The Chairman then read the report of her Majesty's Inspector, who has visited and examined the children in the boys' and girls' schools. He awarded first probittion certificates to the schoolm later and schoolmistress, and the Government grants are the same as last year—£3o- for the boys', and £2O for the girls' school.—Mr Pear,en lid before the Board some correspondence relative to a lunatic named John Parrott, of Stockton, in • private asyhim at York, whose relatives were unable to pay for his maintenance any longer. It was determined to wait until the asylum authorities returned him back to his friends before interfering in the matter.— The Chairman produced a long letter from the Local Government Board respecting the new Act relating to vagrants.—The Workhouse Master was authorised to carry out the regulations in the best way he could, and discussion of the letter was postponed until next meeting.—The Workhouses Finance Committee reported that the whole of the calls, with the exception of £l5O from Linthorpe, were paid, and they recommended calls similar in amount for the ensuing half-year. The report was alopted.—A letter from the Registrar-General, in answer to the suggestion for alteration of the registration district, was read, in which that gentleman admitted the possibility of making a better arrangement, but he regretted to say that the existing Act of Parliament did not give authority for such a change. He hoped to see the statute amended in the next session of Parliament. —This ended the public business.