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flattering position in which they stand, the Corporation would have 

 shown more shrewdness, if not more decency, by keeping quietly in 

 the background on this occasion." 



The Corporation of Salford continue to show the superiority to 

 their neighbours which has for some time honourably distinguished 

 them. They have a Bill now passing through Parliament which 

 will enable them to deal more effectually than hitherto with the 

 many causes of disease identical with those of Manchester existing 

 in their borough, and to appoint a Medical Officer of Health to 

 advise them in the performance of this good work. They have 

 recently sucessfully resisted an attempt by a powerful company to 

 establish an abattoir and dead-meat market in a central and very 

 populous situation, because they believed that an enormous nuisance 

 would thereby have been occasioned. While the corporate rulers of 

 Salford have thus been doing their duty as guardians of the health 

 of the community, those of Manchester have quietly been permitting 

 the erection on the bank of the Irwell, in a situation almost central 

 to the two towns, of a piggery for several thousand pigs, and a 

 slaughter-house in which those very cleanly and odoriferous 

 animals are to be prepared for the pork-shops. 



Liverpool. — In somewhat striking contrast to the absence of 

 sanitary proceedings in Manchester, is the unwonted activity of the 

 officials in Liverpool. The sanitary cases are now tried by the 

 Stipendiary, and every week scores of people are summoned either 

 under the new Act of 1866, the Nuisance Eemoval Acts, or one of 

 those numerous local Acts with which the Corporation has from 

 time to time armed itself. Cellars, not in conformity with the 

 Act, are closed ; tenants fined for not cleansing, whitewashing, or 

 converting the old into the new conveniences. The manufacturers, 

 bakers, &c, are prosecuted for making an unnecessary quantity of 

 smoke ; and if the worthy magistrate would only* ascertain by 

 practical observation, better than the officials seem to know, what 

 is an unnecessary quantity, this along with all the other sanitary 

 reforms referred to would be a most useful movement. 



About twenty thousand pounds' worth of land was bought in 

 Liverpool about eighteen months since for labourers' dwellings, and 

 the Corporation have not yet been able to decide upon plans, 

 certain plans having been prepared and altered so as not to be in 

 conformity with sanitary regulations. 



The condition of Yauxhall Ward, which had obtained almost 

 an European notoriety, is much improved, but the local authorities 

 still refuse to comply completely with the instructions of the Home 

 Office, in conformity with Mr. Taylor's report. Mr. B. Samuelson, 

 M.P., has written to the Health Committee that the report will 

 shortly be printed. We hope the honourable gentleman will see 



