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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 25, 1855
Page
3
A 19th century treatise discusses the dangers of foul air in poor homes. It links insalubrious dwellings to illness across generations, detailing mephitic gases from privies, limited light, and poor ventilation as causes of respiratory and vascular disease. It calls for cellar venting, limewashing, wider courts, drainage updates, and regular cleansing to protect public health.
At the Central Criminal Court Mr Brandt a merchant was called as grand juror and noted as a Russian subject awaiting naturalisation. A meeting near Camden road and Belle Isle reported severe nuisances from trades like horse slaughtering and varnish making tainting the air. residents seek Board of Health action. Other items note a voter revision start September 17 and a Crystal Palace stunt heightening risk. Westminster Abbey monuments to Campbell and Macintosh are described, with London deaths and diarrhoea stats contrasted by past cholera periods.
At the Montgomery assizes the Chief Justice criticized the county gentry for nominating a High Sheriff with limited means and laments over reception at the hall. Other items note a zero score by the 2nd Surrey Militia in cricket, a birth aboard a train near Deepfields, a derailment near Todmorden with injuries, and railways revising barristers plus a Salford arson case. Encampment work at Colchester prepares for 3000 militia with hospitals and schools, while Royal Monmouthshire Light Infantry funds comfort for Royal Welsh Fusiliers serving at Sebastopol and receives grateful replies.
The four vacant colonelcies will go to Lieut.General the Hon. Charles Gore C B lately in Canada to Lieut General Walton General Simpson and Major General Sir W Codrington K C B Gore served in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo Walton commanded the Coldstream Guards Simpson given promotion on seniority and past service Codrington praised for gallantry and leadership Three pensions will be disposed of and Colonel Shewell of the 8th Hussars may receive one Two more general officer vacancies are anticipated with Colonels Shirley Horn Warren and Spencer to be raised to Major General all having commanded brigades during Crimea era
A set of obituary notices reports the deaths of prominent figures including the Duke of Manchester and Viscount Hencrorp, detailing their careers and family succession. It also notes the deaths of Captain Hugh Fitzhardinge Drummond of the Scots Fusilier Guards and General Conyers, highlighting service in the Crimea, Egypt, and the Peninsular War.
Reports say high death rates in Tuscan prisons forced government action to release a portion of inmates. In Naples a shopkeeper reportedly died from injuries after an assault by the Commission of Bastonnades.
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