The Glamorgan Gazette

RHONDDA AND SWANSEA BAY RAILWAY. r- LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD ENQUIRY AT BRUON FERRY. 10n Thursday evening Major General Phipps Carey, R.E., held an inquiry at the Briton Ferry Local Board Room, as to the demolition of houses by the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. Mr Yockney, engineer to the railway company, in xesponne to an invitation from the Commissioner, stated that his company had acquired 46 houses, 13 of which they intended to demolish, and they had already raised 6 to the ground. They intended to build three cottages in lieu thereof. The Commissioner here remarked to Mr Yockney that by the Act the Company was subjected to a .penalty of £ 500 for each house they demolished without first providing other houses. Mr Yockney said their agent, Mr Saph, told them there was no scarcity of house accommodation in Briton Ferry, and with the exception of two families all had been provided for. He (Mr Yockney) then read a statement which showed that three families .had been huddled together in one cottage. Mr W. T. Olive I think it would be a wise plan if the Commissioner would kindly examine the hovels called houses referred to in the statement, and see for himself how very much they are over- ,in crowded, and how very unhealthy it must be for the poor people. T Mr Fred Kempthorne, clerk to the Local Board, said there could not be any question whatever as to the very great scarcity of houses and the over- crowding, and many working men had to walk to .Neath and other districts for accommodation. Mr G. V. Perry said as an old resident he claimed 4o have a fairly good Knowledge of the town and its requirements, and he had no hesitation in con- firming the able statement of Mr Fred Kempthorne that the town is badly overcrowded. It was very sad to think of the inconveniences and hardships poor people are suffering in consequence of the great scarcity of houses, and he considered the railway oompauy should erect at least the same number of houses as they demolish, and houses should be ereoted and made tenantable before the work of further demolition takes place. I have it noted that 46 houses have been acquired, of which 13 will be demolished in the near future, and in his opinion, and in the opinion of the inhabitants of the town, the vibration of the proposed railway would, sooner ,or latter, shake down all the houses in Railway- terrace, which are built on nothing but sand, and many of them are now almost in a state of collapse. The Commissioner then stated he would report to the Local Government Board, and closed the enquiry.

TONDU AND ABERKENFIG NOTES. [BY ZETUS.] The Chamber of Trade held a very successful meeting on the lIth instant in the Reading Room when Councillor T. J. Hughes delivered a capital speech to a crowded audience, for which he was heartily applauded at the conclusion. The house rents at Aberkenfig and Evanstown are rising by leaps and bounds, especially at the latter place. It is high time that our landlords, especially some of the leading men in the churches and chapels, should exhibit some brotherly feeling towards us poor working people, who have all our work cut out to try and make both ends meet. It is a pity that they should coerce us in this manner. Some of the houses are not fit for human beings to dwell in, as they are more like barns than decent places for us to have a little comfort after toiling hard all day. It is high time that the working people should form a building society in the place. I am very pleased to see Mr J. Boyd Harvey, the general manager of the Tondu Iron Works, con- -valeseent. again, and I hope that he will be many years in our midst. Our cricketers scared another success on Saturday week, when they defeated the Treherbert team by a substantial score. I should like to know if there are any tennis players in the place or not, as the Tondu cricketers have gone to considerable expense in purchasing a new set of tools for them.

GALLANT RESCUE AT NEATH. Thomas Hopkins, a youth 17 years of age, per- formed a gallant feat on Sunday afternoon by jumping, with his clothes on, into deep water in the Tennant Canal to rescue a girl three years of age. The child was drowning in water 6ft. to 8ft. deep Dear the Dynevor Engineering Works, Neath. Hopkins' act was especially commendable seeing that he is unable to swim. Timely assistance was rendered him by one of his companions, named Charles Wright.

COWBRIDGE FAIR. The Cowbridge June Fair was held on Monday, and was fairly well attended. Store cattler-not so brisk as they have been, although a large number 0 changed hands. Fat cattle sold for 7d per lb., Mutton, Sd per lb. There were a large number of horses on sale, for which high prices were asked; but very few dealers present.

NOTICE TO CYCLISTS.—Come and read for yourselves your RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES and study the riding regulations, and therefore be under no doubt as to what are the PENALTIES. Full information to be had in our windows.-Brown and Williams, official repairer to the Cycle Tourist) Ci'wyndham-ctrtet, Bridgend, —uMrl* d «r»a..• • .• 0

EXTENSION OF LOCAL BOUNDARIES. BRIDGEND AND TONDU. MAESTEG TAKES ACTION. At the quarterly meeting of the Glamorgan County Council held at Neath on Thursday week, the local government committee reported having b3en actively engaged during the quarter in bringing the Local Government Act (1894) into operation. They thought the case of the Bridgend and Cow- bridge Union required an order under the Act of 1888 dealing more extensively with the sanitary areas than the powers delegated to the committee, and submitted an order for the extension of the local government, and dividing the rural sanitary district of the union. Councillor T. J. Hughes proposed, and Councillor W. J. Davies seconded, that the recommendation of the committee for the inclusion of Newcastle Higher and Ynisawdre in the Bridgend Urban district be struck out. Alderman W. H. Morgan contended that it was advisable that the two parishes should be included in the Bridgend district, on the grounds that a sewerage scheme was being provided for these parishes by the Bridgend Board, and that it was inexpedient to have a number of small local board districts. The amendment was lost, and the report adopted. MAESTEG DESIRES EXTENSION. A memorial from the inhabitants of Maesteg praying that the district might be extended and divided into wards, was referred to the local govern- ment committee, with pcwer to make orders if con- sidered necessary.

GLAMORGAN AGRICUL- TURAL SOCIETY. PROSPECTS OF THE SHOW. Progress is being made in connection with the arrangements for the forthcoming agricultural show, to be held at Neath in July. Mr Huntley, the secretary, states that an unprecedented number of applications have been made for schedules, and it is expected that the entries will be correspondingly large. The site chosen is admirable in every respect, and, given fine weather, the show is bound to be a complete success. Mr Thomas Rees, MerthyrVale, has again secured the contract for the erection of the sheds, which will commence forthwith. Messrs Llewellyn and Co., of Swansea, have secured the contract for catering.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The weather appears to be gradually improving, and if the week's rainfall is excessive there has at least been a grateful rise in temperature and increased sunshine. On the Continent prospects are better than here. With regard to trade, English wh3at, according to the London average, has advanced 7d on the week at Mark-lane, and the 60 chief markets show Is advance at 24s 6d improve- ment. At 26 markets for foreign wheat, which has been in good supply, prices were firm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but wavering on Friday and Saturday. The flour trade shows Is per sack improvement on the three weeks in both English and American sorts. The spring corn trade shows that out of 30 leading markets last week 18 were dearer for barley, 21 for maize, and 24 for oats, but that there was no regular advance in beans or peas. London is not a strong market just now for maize, and within the last three days has gone against holders of barley and oats, but Bristol and Birmingham, two important centres, are definitely dearer for barley, and oats are dearer at Hull and in Scotland and Ireland.—Mark Lane Express.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE AT BRITON FERRY. The first meeting of the Briton Ferry Abstinence Society was held on Saturday evening last at the Neath Road Board Schools, the Rev J. Beynon Davies presiding. A very able address was delivered by Mr D. Evans, Shelone, on Total Abstinence, and excellent speeches by the Rev T. Davies, Messrs W. Reed and J. Morris, jun. Songs were sung by Messrs Jacob Lewis, J. Duffield, and a flute quartette by Messrs T. R. Davies r.nd friends. number signed the pledge. The secretary is Mr W. Howells, jun, and the treasurer Mr E. Davies.

DEATH OF MRS. DAVIES, BRITON FERRY, It is with the profounaest regret that we have to record the death of Mrs Catherine Davies, 30 years of age, the beloved wife of the Rev T. J. Davies, the respected pa&tor of Salem Baptist Chapel, after an illness of ouly a few weeks. The funeral took place on Thursday in last week at Dukestown Ceme- tery, Sirhowy. The solemn cortege left the house about 10.30 for Neath, thence by rail for the above place. Amongst those present were the Revs W. P. Williams (Landore), E. Parry (Aberdulais), J. D. Harris (Llansamiet), W. J. Lewis (Morriston), D. C. Davies (Resolven), T. G. Harris (Glyn-Neath), G. A. Hague (Skeweu), J. E. GrIfliths (SkeweD). W. Richards (M.C, Priton Ferry), Williams (' Pedr Hir,' Tredegar), W. Evans (Tredegar), G. Griffiths (Penuel, Rhymney), R Owen (Rhymney), W. A. Jones (Sion, Mertbyr), D. S. Jones (Beaufort), J. A. Evans (Ebbw Vale), D. E. Davies (Tafirnau- bach). Letters of condolence were received from a large number of friends. Great sympathy is felt for Mr Davies and family in their great bereave- ment.

EXPLOSION ABOARD SHIP AT BRITON FERRY. CAPTAIN AND MATE BADLY BURNED. On Thursday night a terrific explosion took place aboard the Danish schooner Frederica, belonging to Odessa, 170 tons register, which had been leaded at Briton Ferry dock on the afternoon of the same day. It appeared that the master, Captain Ballow, and the mate, Mr Ovsen, had been ashore, and shortly after they returned the mate went down to the cabin and struck a match. No sooner had he done so than an explosion occurred and the cabin was shattered to atoms, pegs, tables, and other fur- niture being blown mast high, the dog also going up in the air and coming down in the dock yard, but escaped with very little injury. Not a single article remained in the cabin that was not splintered to pieces. The captain and mate, who were badly burned, were quickly removed, the former to the forecastle, and the latter, who was very badly hurt, to the Villiers Hotel. It is a miracle that the mate and captain were not instantly killed, the former being in the cabin and the latter standing over the skylight. The after part part of the ship was badly shaken. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by putting on the hatches too soon.

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HISTORY OF SMALL-POX. } [BY Miss WARLOW, LONDON, W. It must not be supposed, however, that Dr Jenner and vaccination were universally approved of. At first the chief opposition arose from the medical men who still advocated inoculation. They denied that vaccination was any protection against small- pox. To silence them Jenner proposed a test. If he was right it was impossible for anyone who had ever been vaccinated to take small-pox by inoculation or cow-pox so he re-vaccinated, and, I think, inoculated many persons. The results agreed with hi3 wishes, none of the operations took, but when the same tests were applied by his opponents the results agreed with their wishes and well vaccinated persons took small-pox and cow-pox quite freely. Besides this, many persons, some of them (like Lord Elbury) vaccinated by Jenner himself, took small- pox naturally, and seem to have had it just as severely as their neighbours. The general results were that inoculation fell into disuse, vaccination was not adopted by the people and small-pox began to decline. Such was the state of affairs in 1850, when a set of medical men formed the epidemiological society to promote vaccination which was then, they said, so little used that in the parish of St James, London, only five per cent of the children born were vaccinated. In 1851, Dr Seaton, their leader, drew up a report which was sent to Lord Palmerston and led to the passing in 1853 of a compulsory Vaccination Act. Two years later the same society made another report on defects in the law the chief complaint was there was no com- petent and energetic medical officer to harmonize the whole system and keep it in constant activity.' Before very long this officer was appointed and was Dr Seaton himself. Here two questions arise, 1, what could have induced a Liberal statesman to sanction such an unheard of violation of the subject in free Britain ? No doubt he believed Jenner's assertions that cow-pox and small-pox were the same disease and that a person once vaccinated was for life free from all danger of small-pox. Certain it is that Lord Lyttleton (the immediate promoter of the Compulsory Bill of 1853) promised absolute protection agaiust small-pox, in the authority of the unanimous opinion of the entire medical professsion. Assurances were also given that vaccination gave little pain and could not possibly do any harm. People in authority were terribly afraid of small-pox and believed they could prevent it by wholesale vaccination. 2, If vaccination was so universally approved what need was there of a compulsory law ? Why were not all parents ready and willing to have their children made shares of its benefit ? The answer is plain. In this and every other civilized country there are two distinct kinds of public opinion, the one published in books and newspapers and heard of in society and in public places the other scarcely put into words, undefend- ed by reasoning, but acted on when possible with unswerving tenacity. Lord Brougham once wrote that in his long life he had often seen contrary opinions held by the upper classes and the lower, and that invariably the opinion subsequently proved to be true was that of the common vulgar. The reason is not far to seek. Well-to-do people are educated' for the first 18 or 20 years of their life and afterwards their time is fully taken up with money making or pleasure-hunting. Education has been defined as the art of teaching the young to think wrongly on the greatest possible number of subjects. At best (as at present carried on) it i8 little more than loading the memory with facts and the opinions of others the judging and reasoning faculties are little cultivated, and by the time school and college are over the habit of taking up opinions instead of forming them has become cases inirradic- able. The poor have to leave school early, their work is seldom so interesting as to absorb their thoughts. A more or less painful feeling of ignorance and incapacity makes them very slow to believe anything but what they or their neighbours have seen or known of themselves. Cultured people believed Sir J Simon, thought the danger of small-pox very great and the pain of vaccination very slight, so they had their children operated on and felt themselves very superior indeed to the ignorant multitude. Poor parents watched by their own suffering babes, too often they saw a fine healthy child changed by vaccination into a poor weakling unfit ever to earn its bread. Neigh- bours took warning from their experience and I Jenner's preventative got a bad name in the country. Also poor poople kuew that small-pox seldom came and that very few of its victims died while the I many who recovered were compensated for their disfigured faces, by better health than they had ever enjoyed before. Who were right ? Martin Lister in 1696 wrote that < among the common people scarcely one patient in forty dies.' In 1727 the apothecary to Christ's Hospital, Isaac Massey > wrote 4 Here in the natural small-pox but one in 49 dies.' Tatuml means not given by inoculation or other artificial means. Dr Tissot in Paris in 1763 found that one in seven died. In a later work published in 1773 he tells that two patients out of 13 died; also that at Geneva in 1751, one patient out of ten died, and that at Boston, U.S.A., among I negroes one in seven died, but among white men only one in eleven. Dr Heberden in 1801 writes— by the natural small-pox there die one in six.' 1\ These last were ardent inoculators and inclined to make the worst of natural small-pox. Dr Haen of Vienna writing in 1751 against inoculation seems to have proved that the estimate of one death in seven cases was much too high. Never mind, we will take this high estimate—one in seven is under 15 per cent, to this we will add over three per cent to all for the extra deaths in hospitals which were then nests of gangrene. This gives us an outside estimate of 18 per cent for deaths by natural small- pox. When therefore Dr Foster tells us that 28.2 per cent of the unvaccinated died at Bradford, we know that more than one-third of the 28.2 were not really unvaccinated or else they did not die really of small-pox. In 1763 a M. Le Hoe com- plained that when an individual who has been inoculated takes the natural small-pox a year or so afterwards, this attack is endeavoured to be con- cealed with great care, both on account of the patient himself and of the distinguished personages who have formerly submitted themselves to inocu- lation. The disease is disguised under different names.' About 100 yearlater Sir T. Watson pointed out how frequently small-pox in vaccinated children is credited to chicken-pox. In 1857-9 there was an epidemic of small-pox in Britain which carried off 14,000 persons. Iu 1863-5, the disease raged again, killing about 20,060, an increase of over 40 per cent of deaths in a population that had only increased 7 per cent. This increase of deaths from small-pox came after 12 years of compulsory vaccination, but persons of culture were not to be shaken in their faith in Jenner by a simple vulgar fact, and in 1867 Lord R. Montagu brought forward a Bill to make the law of 1853 more stringent, declaiing it to be absolutely certain that after vaccina- tion no person could ever be attacked by small-pox. As if to laugh at man's wisdom the epidemic in 1870 visited Britain for a third time. Its victims numbered 44,000, an increase of 123 per cent in a population only 6 per cent larger than before. The 4 common vulgar' saw and marked the fact that so far, at least, increased vaccination was followed in less than 20 years by small-pox more trebled.—1857-9 had 14,000 deaths; 1870-2 had 44,800 deaths. {T«bt MHtitiKfll.) I

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The great majority of the letters in this list relate to pianos, and while many of them have reference to most costly instruments oontain- ng all the latest improvements supplied to the well- to-do, the greater number relate to serviceable in- struments purchased for the homes of the wage-earn- ing portion of the community. This growing love for so refining an art as music is a most favourable sign. For though in the Principality music has for generations been the chief recreation of the people, it has for the most part been choral music in connec- tion with churches and chapels that has occupied attention. Instrumental music is now, however, re- ceiving its fair share of attention, and all those in true sympathy with the art must trust that the movement will go steadily onward. These testi- monials have been received from every quarter of the Principality, while not a few come from other portions of the United Kingdom, and some from South America, India, and other distant countries." 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M AESTEG. .J(' SPECIAL QUOTATIONS FOR SCHOOL TREATS ON APPLICATION. 37 YORWERTH TH0MaS, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, BRIDGEND, PONTYCYMMER AND TYNEWYDD. SADDLERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Cart, Van, Gig, and Pit Harness always in Stock Woollen and Waterproof Carriage Rugs, Lamps, and Mats. A Variety of Horse Clothing and Waterproof Horse Loin Covers and Cart Covers. Special Line in Brown Harness and Riding Saddles. Waterproof Coats, Leggings. Bags, Satchels, and Travelling Trunks and Baskets. OILSKIN COATS, HATS, AND LEGGINGS. fg-COLLIERIES SUPPLIED. Estimates given for Contracts. Workmen sent to the Country to Repair Harness at the Shortest Notice. MODERATE CHARGES. PORTHCAWL HAND LAUN DRY. THE PROPRIETORS of the above New and Well-fitted LAUNDRY, with Two Acres o DRYING GROUND, by the Sea, respectfully solicit LAUNDRY" WORK from BRIDGEND. Their VAN will COLLECT and RETURN every WEDNESDAY. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Terms on Application. Special Terms for Families. 207 W ANTED, FREgn FLOWERS, FRUIT & VEGETABLES DAILY. APPLY T. THOMAS, I Fruiterer and Greengrocer, 1 136 7, Queen Street, BRIDGENDl