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 township of Baildon, in the county of York / by William Lee.
- Great Britain. General Board of Health
- Date:
- 1852
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 township of Baildon, in the county of York / by William Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![features of the district are so favourable that no mechanical power would be required in its application. The land below the town would be capable of receiving it with ad- vantage. I have little doubt that the demand would be great; and as this valuable fertiliser is produced by the ratepayers, it would be proper to make its application a source of public revenue. Pavements and Surface Cleansing.—The surveyors of the highways have now only jurisdiction over the public roads, and that only as a matter of reparation, and not for any purposes connected with health. A Local Board of Health, however, would not only be able to keep the highwa3s clean and free from such nuisances as are now either upon or contiguous to them, but would also have the power to cause the court-yards and other back premises to be kept in a proper state, both as to paving and cleanli- ness ; to cause the removal of all nuisances, and to prevent the accumulation of litter, filth, and dung. I have only touched upon a few of the more prominent duties that would devolve upon the Local Board. They would have to perform many other important duties ; and if your Honourable Board should think the Act ought to be applied, I trust that the inhabitants will not stop short of a proper water supply, drainage, pavement, and surface cleans- ing, because I am convinced that all these improvements may be so efiiciently and yet so economically carried out in the district, as to effect a pecuniary saving even to the poorest inhabitant of Baildon, when compared with the cost of the present arrangements. ISTature and Extent of Kates.—The Local Board would have to levy a general district rate, which would include any expenses connected with the meetings of the Local Board, and its management, such as the collection of rates, stationery, &c. Out of the same rate they would have to pay for any survey or plans for the works, and also to repay to the Government in five annual instalments the expense of applying the Act. This rate would very little exceed the amount heretofore collected as highway rates. A highway rate would be collected by the Local Board as has been done heretofore by the surveyors. The special district rates would include such works as the public part of the drainage works, and would be levied only upon the property benefitted by the expenditure. Land or buildings not benefitted would be exempt from the rate. [19] c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24996567_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
