Rhyl Journal

ABERGELE AND PENSARN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. MONTHLY MEETING. THE LC B. AND THE PROPOSED GRATUITY TO AN OFFICIAL: SURVEYOR REBUKED FOR MAKING IMPROPER REMARKS. DIFFER ENCES BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND COUNTY AUTHORITIES: INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. MONDAY.—Present Mfssrs T Evans (chairman), J Pierce (vice-chairman), Dr Wolstenholme, and Messrs Pierce Davies, J Kd wards, J C Knight I Morris, G Perkins, I Kober:s, E Wil iams, T Williams, E A Crabbe (clerk), and M R Jone3 (survey* Vj. The Local Government Board and the Proposed Gratuity to the Surveyor. The Clerk read a letter from the Local Government Board stating that they had excluded from the proposed loan in connection with Dundonald Avenne the sum of X20 paid to the Surveyor as a gratuity, and the sum of £ 20 requiied to defray the cost of providing a com- memoration stone, as they do not consider these are purposes for which they could properly authoriso the borrowing of money. Mr E Williams admitted that the Council decided to give the Surveyor an honorarium, but under the circum- stances it was out of the question that ths Council would be able to pay at present. At the same time it was only honourable that they should remunerate him for the extra work he had done in connection with the scheme. Unfor- tunately there had been no provision for this amount in the present year's estimates, and the only source fiom which the money could come was the rates. He proposed that the amount be included in next year's estimate^, Mr Roberts, who seconded, certainly understood that when the money was voted it would come out of tho loan. Mr Perkins also expressed isurprise that the amount could not be allowed of out the loar). It was he who pro- posed that that course be pursued, and little did he expect when the Council decided up( n it that they were going to land the ratepayers in a f20 difficulty. He believed the Surveyor had done a lot of work for which he was entitled to be remunerated, there having been a great deal in the Dundonald Avenue scheme that did not come within a surveyor's ordinary duties. Dr Wolstenholmt; said when the proposal was made he was under the impression that it was a misapplication of money. They were borrowing for a specitic purpose, and it was hardly likely that the Local Government Board would allow them to devote any of it for any ether purpose. The Clerk said that the Local Government Board had allowed a similar grant on a previous occasion, ard I13 was surprised that they had not done so on this occa- sion. It was unfortunate that these amounts had been disallowed, but as the Council had obtained the inclusion of several items they did not expect the matter was as broad as it was long. With these remarks MrE Williams' motion was carried. Improper Remarks by the Surveyor Withdrawn. The Surveyor said he was sorry that the X20 had troubled the Council so much. He understood that 11 had been in their hearts ever since they sanctioned it. It was said outside by a certain gentleman that if lie had been there at the time it was proposed the money would not have been granted. That gent eman was still a mem- ber of the Council. Mr Davies, shaking his head vigorously, indicated that such a remark was most uncalled for. The Purveyor Any way I am quite willing to wait until next year. Both Mr E Williams and Mr Roberts demanded a withdrawal of so impudent a statement. Mr Williams added that the Surveyor must remember he was the Council's servant and not their master. The Surveyor Then I'll withdraw. The Vice-Chairman Whatever you have heard out- side, it is quite irregular to repeat it here. With this the incident terminated. The Street Lamps. The Surveyor reported that the street lamps were in a bad condition. The lanterns on some of the standards were simply rotting away. Mr Perkins asked whether, considering the Council's financial condition, they could not manage with the lamps they had until next year. The Surveyor The tops of some of the lamps are falling to pieces, as is only to be expected after 25 years' exposure to wind and rain. Eventually it was decided to place the matter in the hands of a small committee, and that the cost of new lamps be provided for in next year's estimates. In Need of a Coat of Paint. Mr Perkins, referring to another matter in the Sur- veyor's report, said there was no doubt the railings in Dundonald Avenue needed painting. He had been told by an authority on the subject that unless they were attended to at once they would rot away. It was decided that tenders for painting the railings be invited, the Surveyor remarking that two coatings would be required. Tenders. Tenders for making up Dundonald Avenue were opened by the Chairman, estimates for two alternate schemes being submitted as follows :—Mr Williams, Dyseith, scheme (a) £ 960, scheme (b) XS70; Messrs Hughes and Rowlands, Colwyn Bay (a) X887 5s (b) X621 (is; Messrs Jones and Pritchard, Abergele (a) £ 1)12 (b) X577 Mr Alfred JCmroett, DuHniield and Abergele (a) £ 957 (b) £87G Messrs Williams and Jones, Old Colwyn (a) £)99, (b) X765 17s; Mr Higginbottom, Colwyn Bav (a) f839 lOf (b) £578. These were considered in committee, and it was do cidcd to accept Messrs Jones and Pritchard's £577 tender. An Offer not Entertained. A letter was read from Mr Smith Jennings, Dews bury, asking for the Council's financial support if hi brought a minstrel troupe to Abergele next summer. Ir the event of the Council giving him sole permissior he would provide half the cost of a bandstand by th, seashore. The Vice-Chairman, in proposing .that the matte be not entertained, said he did not see how it was ir the power of the Council to grant any financial as- sistance. Mr Perkins seconded, and the motion was carried. The County Council and the recent Arbitration Award. The' Cerk reported that, acting on instructions given him by a special lllPeting of the Council, he had written to the Clerk to the Denbighshire County Council (Mr W R Evans) in reference to the amount awarded t) tho Urban Council as aresult of the recent arbitration o or the main roads dispi-ite. As it had been pointed out that the County Council could not c inside- the matter until their next ordinary meeting, which would not take 1 lace until February, he (Mr Crabbe) had informed Air Evans that his Council would expect interest on the amount during the interval which would elapse before tlie pay- ment if the award. To that the Clerk of the County Council bad lvplied, stating that he would liy the matter before his Finance Committee as early as pos- sible, but at prcsent they could not admit the legality ot any c;aim for interest. The Making-up of Dundonald Avenue County Council Refuse the Urban Council's Request. A letter was also read from the County Counc 1 in reply to one sent by the Urban Council if, er tliir meeting in September, statii'g that thev declined to authorise their D.strict Surveyor to II eet the Aber- gele Surveyor iu order to confer as to what was absolut-ly necessary for making up and com- pleting the road from Abergele t,) the Jallway station. It was the opinion of the County Council that the lJrban Council should submit to them in writing all that they proposed to do, so tint it might be d alt wi:h at their next meeting. Mr Crabbe said lie bad answered this communication, expressiog deep regret that the County Council could not see their way to adopt the sufg stion of the Urban Council, which they thought a wise one, all things considered, and one by" hich much of that friction which had in the past been unhappily too apparent between the County Council and themssluea could have lfeen. He had stated at the same time that his authority could not see its way to delay the work until the next County Council meeting. Mr Perkins thought all this correspondence would at any rate afford the public proof that they had done all in their power to meet the County Council in a friendly manner. The Defunct Technical Classes. The Clerk said that as they had been unable to revive the local technical instruction classes, which had fallen through some time ago, there was a balance of £ 75 17s4d standing to the credit of the Technical Instruction Com- mittee, and the question Ni-iis-wlia,t was to be done with it ? As the County Council had written for particulars concerning the matter he suggested that it be placed on the next agenda. In common fairness they could not vote it away without allowing the County Council a voice in it. The Chairman I think it a great pity the classes were discontinued. The Clerk I agree with you. It was decided t) refer the matter to a committee with a view to a recommendation as to the best means of disposing of the money. A Seasonable Creeting. The public business concluded with the Chaii man's hearty wish that ail would experience a happy Christmas and a bright New Year, this being the last melting of the Council before 1903.

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MARVELLOUS DISCOVERIES. VACCINATION. The difco/eries and inventions of the last century, h since Jennpr discovert0 vaccination, have been more marvellous and have contributed more to tue well-being of humanity than those of any, if not of all, of the great epochs into which the liistoiy of humanity is divided and the most wonderful of the discoveries are those which relate to the nature, causes, symptom*, progress, and cure of disease. But the discovery of vaccination ofcowpox by Jenner, and of inoculation of rabies by Pasteur, though they led to greater discoveries, are about to be eclipsed by the panacea cof Pro- feSi-or W. Ich, of Baltimore. His wonderful discovery, or theory, is of a virus whereby all diseases to which humanity is heir can be pre- vented, o-, if already in existence, made to speedilydi.-appear,and is endorsed bymany eminent medical men of the Continent, some of whom were ptfi-ent when the discoverer told of his cuie before tl e London Medical Confess. Dr. Wyeth, a distinguished physi-ian, says tint the sttrtling statement that there can be obtained a universal virus which, once inoculated int) the system, will render the patient immune to all contagion is perfectly logical and true. While lately discussing the subject with a Press y .1 reporter, he said that it would not be long before every physician in the woild would use this new virus, or panacea, in preference and t) t he absolute exclusion of any other drugs. He stited that the question of the best manuer of adtninisit ring the serum bad not been determined, but as soon as this point was settled satisfactorily its adoption by all the medioj1 professioa would be almost immediate. He said As the vaccine virus furnishes immunisation from smallpox and as B hring's serum gives freedom from diphtheria, so for each disease there has been found such a serum or such a substance for preventing this morbid proces,. This dis- covery of Professor Welch's will revolutionize all other serum (,1' virus preventatives and cures, as by the simple subcutaneous injection of this new liquid all diseases may be made t) be a thing of the past. Physicians, unlike ordinary inventors, feel it incumbent upon themselves to disclose any and all inventions and discoveries that they make. Many a doctor could have made his everlasting fortune out of his discoveries it he had chosen to keep them secret. Professor Welch's name will go down to posterity as the greatest bacteriologist and disease dtstroyer the world has ever known." CONSUMPTION. Though somewhat irregular and out of the purpose of this article, I may be excused a few brief observations on consumption, tuberculosis, the scourge of the English-speaking race. It is the most prevalent of all diseases; no family can be absolutely sure that sjme member may not have* it. Recent scientific study of it has demon- strated that it is curable, and that in some great towns the labours of physicians, improved sanita- tion, and the more frequent resoit to places like Rhyl, have within recent years reduced the death- rate from it by fifty per cent. Consumption is an infectious disease caused by a microbe of four varieties of bacterium, a micro- scopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. They are very videly diffused in nature, and multiply with marvellous rapidity, both by fusion and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. The spread of consumption is due to the dissemination of the microbe, which, floating in the air, is taken into the system by breathing, though it may also be taken otherwise. But the disease is also hereditary-that is to say, children are born with the microbe in them.- Alas seldom is family healthfulness considered in marriage; fancy and £ s. d. rule the court of Cupid and marriage. The name tuberculosis is derived from an incidental fact. The microb; lodged in the lungs or elsewhere creates an irritation, and this pro- duces a growth around the microbe of small hard masses called descriptively tubercles—that is, little tubers or knots, and the word tuberculosis simply means the presence of these masses. For ages the true nature of this disease was unknown, but they were the ages which preceded the microscope and the methods of study to which it gave rise. Villemin. a French physician, first proved the infectious natuie of the disease in 1885. Seventeen years later Dr. Koch, of Berlin, identified and described the microbe, and proved that it is the one and only source of:this malady. The science of medicine has to its credit that it has shown that disease is controllable, and pointed the way directly to prevention and ultimatel y to cure. Prevention is already active on an extensive scale. Instruction of the people has a great part in this, for the microbes that oat in the air have one common origin, which is the expectoration of a person who has the disease. They do not come from the breath of such a person, but the exp, c- toration falls in some out-of-the-way place-or ou the stairs, or in a railway station or carriage. There it dries in dust, and as dust it is lifted into the air by a breeze, and so gets to one's lungs. One man of science has estimated that in the expectoration of one person in twenty-four hours there may be four billions of microbes. In the early years of last century it was proved that consumption is curable, but the method of cure had no scientific certainty until ic was finally based upon the knowledge of the present day. Of the requirements for cure I have not space to-day. There is another tribe of microbes or bacteria which may be described as cerebral microbes, pro ducing cerebro-spinal meningitis, a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, charac- terised by inflamation of the membrance of the brain, causing mental ecentricity and aberration, and often lunacy-as been in the multitude of religious sects, and, locally, ou municipal boards (e g., Rhyl Urban Council). The consideration of the oiigin, genesis, and development of these mischievous organisms I must leave to future articles. THE GREATEST MARVEL. But there is reported from Vienna a still more marvellous discovery, enabling mothers,by special diet, to originate childrens' talents and to prevent the degeneration of mankind, by creating healthy and vigorous humanity. The late Professor Schenk, an eminent doctor, maintained that mothers, by persistence in special diet, could lay the foundation of particular talents aud capacities in their children and be hoped to extend this theory to the point where parents might not only gratify their wish to have a son, but might have a son who would become a talented musiciau, author, or mathematician. THE LOOK-OUT. The lookjut for humanity which these dis. coveries give is appalling. First, if disease be banished, and by improved di< ting the race become more healthy and vigo ous, the life and fecundity of the race may be increased to those of the pre- deluge times—again men will be giants and will live to ten times the present allotted number of years- a man at 100 will only be considered an infant not of mature age. The effect of these causes must be a prodigious increase of population —an increase bpyond the resources and productive power of the earth to feed, and men will have to pray for a speedy end of this dispensation, or oider of things, and the creation of the promised "new heaven and earth." Second, when mothers can control their child- ren's talents, they will make all their sons into parsons, or lawyers, or scienti:-ts or philosophers, or professors of anything but delving and spi-nnirg or of manual labour of any kind. Few mothers appri ciate "THE CICNITY OF lABOUR," though exemplified in the household of the Nazirena carpenter. Had an ordinary modern woman bee:1 the mother of Jesus, she would have struggled to raise Him above the bench-to make Him what in common parlance is spoken of as £ a gen'leman." But such was not the wisdom of God. Dean Farrar, in his admirable Life of Christ, speaks as follows: "There has ever been in unenlightened hearts a love of idleness a ten- dency t) regard it as a stamp of aii>tocracyT; a desire 1o delegate labour to the lower and weaker, and to brard it with ths stigma of inferiority aud contempt. The Jews, with a truer and nobler wisdom, enacted that every boy should have a trade, and the wise man said that labour honours the laborer.' Our Lord wished to show that honest work ennobles the workman; it is the salt of life it is the girdle of manliness it saves the body from effeminate langour, and the soul from polluting thoughts. And,therefore, Christ labored. working with His own hands, and fashioned ploughs and yokes for those who needed them. The very scoff of Celsus against the possibility that He should have been a carpenter who came to save the world shojrs how vastly the world has gained from this vpry eircu rust ar;c -h,)w gracious aud how fittiug w;i, the example of such humility in One whose mission it was to regenerate society, and to make all things new If the mothers of to-day had their way, very soon there would 1 ot be men sufficient to till the ground." There are communities of educated men who labGur-as monks and there are com- munities of women wli ) labour-fls nuns and c immunities of married men and women have been formed, but. never succesfully established. The ambitions and jealousies of women-especially of i-notliei-s--)iave always been, and always must be, fatal to communism and to their appreciation of the dignity of labour. A ribald acquaintance has .i lI"t put the old question When Adam deived and Eve spuu where was the gentleinan P An hooest labourer of any grade is a better man than an idle ansucrat, however high his rank. D.c. 1, 19()2 Yz.

THE PRESS. The "Agricultural Annual and Mark Lane Ex- press Almanack" for 1903 is now in its eleventh year, and has made such great strides in popularity that it is one of the foremost of its kind and is a worthy offspring of its parent, the Mark Lane Express," which, by the way, celebrated its seven- tieth birthday this year. la form, the Annual is similar to last year's issue, and the size is practically the same, buL we think it will be generally acknow- ledged that its contents are better than before and that it is altogether the best of the series- which is saying a good deal. The various specially written articles, by experts on the subjects treated, are as readable and useful as ever; the lists of societies have been brought up-to-date, as have also the various, tables, whilst several new and useful ones have been added and lastly, but by no means the least attractive feature of the Annual, viz., the illustrations, are more numerous than before, and, if anything, above the high standard obtained in previous years. Cassell's Magazine excels itself at Christmas. Qilter-Couch, Ian Maclaren, Jerome K Jerome, Harry Furniss, and Guy Boothby are among the contributors this year. A magaificient Rembrandt photogravure presentation plate aud other plates accompany this interesting number.

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