Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Ranger
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To take proceedings against the owner or occupier of any liouse which, on the certificate of the officer of health, sliall appear to be in such a filthy or unwholesome condition that t he health of any persons is affected or endangered thereby, r that the whitewashing, cleansing, or purifying thereof would tend to prevent or check infectious or contagious disease. To prevent the occupation of cellars as dwelling-houses, unless certain conditions be attended to. To cause all liighways to be levelled, paved, flagged, channelled, altered, and re-paved, as and when occasion shall require. To compel the owners or occupiers of premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting upon any street, (not now being a highway) to put the same into proper repair, and to declare any street, not now being a highway, which shall be sew- ered, levelled, paved, flagged, and channelled, to the satis- faction of the Local Boards to be a liighway, unless the proprietors shall object thereto. To contract for lighting the streets, roads, and other open places, markets, and public buildings within the district, as authorized by the confirmatory Act. To fix the level and width of every new street. To purchase property for widening or improving any street. To provide, with tlie consent of the General Board, pub- lic walks or pleasure grounds. To provide such a sujDply of water as shall be sufficient for the purposes of the Act, and to lease or purchase any waterworks, or to construct waterworks, unless any Water- works Company shall be willing to supply Avater upon terms certified to be reasonable by the General Board, or settled by arbitration, with power to require every house to be sup- plied with water, where it can be furnished at a rate not exceeding 2cZ. per week; and to construct works for the gratuitous supply of water to public baths or wasliliouses. To purcliase or lease, by agreement, aiiy land or premises for the purposes of the Act. CONCLUSIONS. The statements contained in the foregoing Eeport are, in my judgment, such as to warrant me in drawing the following conclusions :— I. That the parish of Alverstoke contains within its limits the town of Gosport, and the neighboiuing villages of Elson, Brockliurst, Forton, and Alverstoke, to all of which it is [78] C