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 town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector.
- Rammell, Thomas Webster
- Date:
- 1850
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 town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![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 Town of YjXuovth. By Thomas Webster Kammell, Esq., Superintending Inspector. 1849. 'London, 26th Octohar, 1849, My Lords and Gentlemen, A PETITION having been presented to your Honourable Board, from more than one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor of the town of Exmouth in the county of Devon, and praying for inquiry, with a view to the application to the town of the whole of tlxe provisions of the Public Health Act, 1848, your Honourable Board was pleased to direct me to visit the parts for the purpose of making a preliminary inquiry, according to the terms of the Act, and with respect to the matters following, viz. v— The sewerage, drainage, and supply of water; The state of the burial grounds ; The number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants; The local Acts of Parliament (if any) in force within the town for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regu- lating, supplying with water, or improving the same, or having relation to the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848 ; The natural drainage areas ; And the existing municipal,parochial, or other local boun- daries, and the boundaries which may be most advan- tageously adopted for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848; And also as to other matters with respect to which your Honourable Board was desirous of being informed In pursuance of these directions, 1 caused the proper notice to be issued for a public meeting to take place at the Globe Hotel in the town on the 5th of February last; and on pro- ceeding on that day to the appointed place, I found present a [76.] B 2 •](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2042307x_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
