APPOINTMENTS. MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. BABST, Charles Theodore Uvo, L.R.C.P.Edin., L. R.C.S. Edin., has one year. BRYDEN, Robert Thomas, L.R.C. P. Edin., L. R.C.S. Edin., has been per annum. FISHER, Thomas. M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S. A. Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Llandilotalybont division of the MARSHALL, William Norris, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Newent Rural Sanitary District, at £40 for one year. MASON, George, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S. A. Lond., has been re-appointed MILLETT, George Bown, L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. MORGAN, Edward Rice, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been OSBURNE, Cecil Anthony Perrier, L.R.C.P. Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin., QUICK, John, M.R.C.S.Eng., and L.M., L.S.A. Lond., has been re- STEEL, William Dyne, M.D. Univ. Aberd., has been re-appointed STUART, William, M.B., C.M. Univ. Aberd., has been re-appointed TWINING, Alfred Hughes, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. Lond., has been BOVEY, Mr. John, Jun., has been appointed Collector of General deceased. vice COCHRANE, Mr. Thomas, Manager of the Carlisle and Cumberland COLE, Mr. H., has been elected a Member of the Ivybridge Local DAVIES, Mr. Evan, has been elected a Member of the Mold Local DAVIES, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Mountain DAVIES, Mr. Owen, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances to the newly-formed Menai-Bridge Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £12 per annum. DUFTON, Mr. Benjamin, has been appointed Clerk to the Pudsey DUNNETT, Mr. Coleman, Branch Manager of the London and County EDINGER, Mr. Philip, has been appointed Surveyor, Inspector of FORD, Mr. Robert, has been elected a Member of the Ivybridge Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Head, resigned. Fox, Mr. Ambrose, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for GARRETT, Mr. Thrale George, has been appointed Inspector of HUGHES, Mr. Thomas. has been appointed Collector to the newly JACKS, Mr. William, has been elected a Member of the Kenilworth Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Forrest, deceased. JOHNS, Mr. Samuel, has been appointed Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Wallingford Union Rural Sanitary Authority, and Inspector under the Canal Boats Act, at £100 per annum, from year to year, vice Withers, whose appointment has expired. JULIAN, Mr. Frederic Mason, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk to the Smallthorne Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Staffordshire, at £30 per annum, vice Tomkinson. KINNEIR, Mr. Henry, has been appointed Clerk to the Swindon New Town Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £125 per annum, vice Townsend, deceased LONSDALE, Mr. Horace Blamire, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk to the Carlisle Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, at 150 per annum, as Clerk to the Guardians; £50 per annum, as Clerk to the Rural Sanitary Authority; £30 per annum, as Clerk to the Assessment Committee; £15 per annum, as Clerk to the School Attendance Committee; and 12 12s. per annum, as Returning Officer at uncontested elections of Guardians, vice Mounsey, resigned (but who retains the office of Superintendent Registrar of Births, &c.). LUGG, Mr. John, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the MACKRELL, Mr. James, has been elected a member of the Elland MANSELL, Mr. W. R., has been elected a Member of the Wellington MARSHALL, Mr. Alfred, has been elected a Member of the Tunbridge Wells Board of Improvement Commissioners and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Timins, deceased. MINTON, Mr. E. E., has been appointed Treasurer pro tem. to the Leek Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, vice Whyatt, deceased. MITCHESON, Mr. Thomas, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk to the O'KELLY, Mr. Peter Francis, has been elected a Member of the OLLIVE, Mr. J. E. S., has been appointed Clerk to the Wirral OSBORNE, Mr. G. E., has been elected a Member of the Gillingham Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Tassell, deceased. PENTELOW, Mr. George, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Thrapston Rural Sanitary District, at £50 per annum, vice Spendlove, resigned. PUGHE, Mr. William, Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-formed Menai-Bridge Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. RIDDELL, Mr. Edward Mitford Hutton, Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the Newark Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Barton, resigned. ROBBS, Mr. Decimus Mallett, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk to the Gainsborough Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £200 per annum, vice Hayes, resigned. SCOTT, Mr. E. M., has been appointed Surveyor to the Wednesbury Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £200 per annum, vice Fereday. SHARMAN, Mr. S. E., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Sevenoaks Rural Sanitary District for one year. SMALLRIDGE, Mr. G., has been elected a Member of the Ivybridge Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Robinson, resigned. STEPHENSON, Mr. Richard John, Manager of the South Molton Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England, has been appointed Treasurer to the South Molton Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, vice Johnson, resigned. STEPHENSON, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Boston Port Sanitary District, for one year (no fixed salary). TAYLEUR, Mr. E. H.. has been elected a Member of the Ivybridge Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Crispin, resigned. TOWNSEND, Mr. Henry Fox, has been appointed Clerk to the Swindon Old Town Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £60 per annum, vice Mr. James Copleston Townsend, de ceased. TURNOCK, Mr. William, has been appointed Clerk to the Chester Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, at £150 per annum as Clerk to the Guardians; £20 per annum as Clerk to the Rural Sanitary Authority; £45 per annum as Clerk to the Assessment Committee; £20 per annum as Clerk to the School Attendance Committee; and fees as Returning Officer, vice Keartland, deceased. WALLIS, Mr. W. S., has been elected a Member of the Halsted Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Dallman, resigned. WELSFORD, The Rev. Henry Charles, has been elected a Member o the Ellesmere Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Allinson, resigned. WILLIAMS, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Cirencester Urban Sanitary District, at £50 for the year ending June 24, 1886. WILLIAMSON, Mr. John, has been elected Chairman of the Cannock Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice McGhie, resigned. WOLLSTEIN, Mr. John, has been appointed Collector to the MuchWenlock Local Board and Urban Sanitary,Authority, Shropshire, at 15 per annum, vice Smith. WOLSTENHOLME, Mr. Jeremiah, has been appointed Surveyor to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Blackpool, at £300 per annum, vice Sunderland, resigned. VACANCIES. MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the Leicester Urban Sanitary District; Medical Superintendent of the Fever Hospital, Public Analyst, and Police Surgeon: £500 per annum. Application, 23rd inst., to John Storey, Town Clerk. TREASURER to the Wem Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. SURVEYOR to the Colchester Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority. SURVEYOR to the Wilsden Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES for the Hartlepool Port Sanitary District: £80 per annum. INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES for the Morpeth Rural Sanitary District: £60 per annum, from year to year. Application, 16th inst., to George Brumell, Clerk to the Authority. COLLECTOR to the Burton-upon-Trent Town Council and Urban LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Upon the application of the East Grinstead Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, the enactment contained in the goth sect. of the Public Health Act, relating to bye-laws as to houses let in lodgings, has been declared by the Local Government Board to be in force within the district. The Sevenoaks Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority have increased the salary of Mr. Jabez Mann, the surveyor, from £175 to £200, as from March 25, the commencement of the financial year. The Chepping-Wycombe Town Council have increased the salary of the Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, from £150 to £200 per annum, and made him a special allowance of £100 for extra services in connection with the drainage works. At a public meeting in the Court House, Buxton, on Wednesday, May 27, Captain E. L. Darwin, J.P., the late chairman for 12 years of the Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, was presented with an illuminated address, a gold watch and chain, and a purse of gold, subscribed for by 600 inhabitants of the town. There were ninety-two applications for the Surveyorship to the Wednesbury Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £200 per annum. The Woolwich Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority have, upon the recommendation of a committee, increased the salary of the Clerk from £250 to £300 per annum, to take effect from March 25 last. The Malvern Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority have increased the salary of Mr. Fraser, the Assistant Surveyor, from £70 to £100 per annum. The Guildford Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with urban sanitary powers, rights, &c., under sect. 160 of the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as it relates to naming streets and numbering houses, and to ruinous and dangerous buildings, within the contributory places of Purbright, Saint Nicholas Guildford, Stoke, and Woking, and of the Charterhouse, Crownpits, and Farncombe special drainage districts. At the monthly meeting of the Basingstoke Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority last month, a motion that the town clerk be paid a salary to include all legal expenses was referred to a committee of the whole council for consideration, and at the meeting on Thursday, the 4th inst., the following report was presented, read, and adopted-The committee (consisting of the whole council) beg toreport that, having fully considered the subject of Mr. Smith's motion, that the town clerk be paid a salary to include all legal expenses, are of opinion that the present arrangements of the duties of the town clerk and the mode of his remuneration have hitherto worked with advantage to the interests of the town, and the committee perceive no grounds for recommending any alteration therein. The committee take this opportunity of recording their sense of the efficient and faithful manner in which the present town clerk has at all times conducted the important duties and interests committed to his care.' The town clerk thanked the council for the vote of confidence in him which was embodied in the concluding clause of the report, and pointed out that the items in the treasurer's abstract under the head of professional charges,' and even under the head of 'legal expenses,' included many items which did not go into his pocket, and were bills from other professional men, and included also payments out of pocket for stamps, fees to counsel, &c. There were ninety-six applicants for the appointment of architect to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Norwich, at £200 per annum, with offices, &c. There were 190 applicants for the Blackburn surveyorship, at £190 per annum. The Local Government Board have consented to the application of the Wellingborough Raral Sanitary Authority to be invested with urban powers, rights, &c., under Sects. 15 and 158, and the last part of Sect. 44, of the Public Health Act, in respect of the parish of Rushden; and will issue an order so soon as the necessary formalities have been complied with. The Llanrwst Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with Urban powers, rights, &c., under Sect. 171 of the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as relates to hackney carriages, within the contributory places of Bettws y Coed, Dolwyddelan, Llaurhychwyn, Llanrwst, Penmachno, Trefriew, and Tre-Gwydir. NOTES AND QUERIES. Having for some time back been in the receipt of Queries appertaining strictly to sanitary work, and which it would be easy to answer, without having to refer our correspondent to competent professional advisers, we have opened a column in which tɔregister such Queries and Replies thereto as can fairly be expected from us; and our subscribers and readers are invited to make such use of this column as will tend to benefit themselves and the community. Both Queries and Replies will, however, be subjected, if unnecessarily long, to a strict curtailment. 159. MUNICIPAL PROVISION OF GAS WORKS. 1. Sect. 161 of the Public Health Act of 1875 gives power to an urban authority to make and supply gas for both public and private purposes, and Sect. 162 gives them power to acquire by agreement the undertaking of any existing gas company. Are these powers new, and if not, since when have they been exercisable under older Acts? 2. What powers have rural authorities to provide their district with lighting? BATSWING. [1. These powers were first specifically given to urban authorities by the Act of 1875. Before that time they were compelled to apply to Parliament for a special Act for the purpose. 2. None as such. But they may apply to the Local Government Board for urban powers under Sect. 276, and, if successful, would then have all the lighting powers of an urban authority under Sects. 150, 152, 161, 162, and 163. If the rural authority had adopted the Watching and Lighting Act of the 4th William IV., and afterwards became urban, that Act would be superseded by Sect. 163 of the Public Health Act.-ED.] |
