AT North Bromsgrove Urban District Council the sanitary committee heard there had been 15 births and ten deaths registered in the district in October, compared with 11 births and 13 deaths the year before. Mortality had been very high, but this had been due to general causes alone, and had almost been entirely among the aged suffering from chronic disease. Six of the deaths were in people over 65 and one death was due to suicidal poisoning.

A SUCCESSFUL smoking concert was held at the Bell by Bromsgrove and District Poultry Society. There was a large attendance of members and others interested in keeping poultry. The chairman said that at a recent meeting a county council poultry expert had said the Bromsgrove group had done well in introducing a better class of poultry into the neighbourhood. During the evening Ralph Dixon, of Worcestershire Poultry Farm, in Tardebigge, talked about the keeping of poultry for egg production.

THIS year the very popular scholars' concert was given at Stoke Works Council School. It was held on two nights, but the schoolroom was uncomfortably crowded. The boys and girls right through from the infant department to the upper classes sang and took part in dialogues and actions. A vote of thanks was carried out by the audience and the happy event was brought to a close by the singing of the National Anthem.

AT Droitwich Borough Police Court John Shaw, a tramp, was brought up on remand charged with stealing bread from the shop of MWR Hitchen, of St Andrew's Street. Mr Hitchen said he was in the yard at the back of the shop when he looked through the window and saw the prisoner taking the bread. The prisoner was sent down for trial at the Assizes.