[Report 1861] / Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.

  • Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
Date:
1861
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    Manchester City Council, The only communication the Committee have had with the Coon-1 cil, during the year, was in reference to obtaining increased powers over the erection of cottage dwellings, and a letter on this]subject was addressed to the Council, a copy of which is given in the Cottage Dwellings Sub-Committee’s Report. Salford Town Council. In March last the Committee received a letter from the Town Clerk of Salford, calling their attention to the Lancashire and York¬ shire Railway Company’s proposed line of Railway rom New Bailey- street, Salford, to the Victoria Station, Manchester, as likely in¬ juriously to affect the sanitary condition of that part of the borough through which it was intended to pass—and requesting the co-operation of the Committee in endeavouring to render it obligatory upon the Company to form a street 12 yards wide, parallel with, and contiguous to, and on the northerly side of the proposed line. A Sub-Committee was deputed to inspect the district and route of the proposed line, and, on receiving their report, the Committee adopted the following resolution, and a copy thereof was transmitted to the Town Council of Salford. “ That having received the able report of the deputation appointed to inspect the district in Salford, through w7hich the proposed line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is intended to pass, this Com¬ mittee considers that a street, as proposed by the corporation of Sal¬ ford, would be an advantage; but, without further evidence, this Committee cannot give an opinion as to whether the increase in the width of the present line will, in itself, add to the insalubrity of the district.” The Committee observe with pleasure the continued publication of the vital statistics by the council, and they have to thank the cor¬ poration for 10 copies of these returns.