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 borough of Newport / by George Thomas Clark, Superintending Inspector.

  • George Thomas Clark
Date:
1850
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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 borough of Newport / by George Thomas Clark, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Viet, cap. 63). 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 Borough of New- port. By George Thomas Clark, Superintending In- My Lords and Gentlemen, Your instructions directed me to inquire into, and report upon, the municipal borough of Newport, in the county of Monmouth. Accordingly, after notice given, as directed by the Public Health Act, I held public sittings in the Town- hall at Newport on the forenoons of the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of August last, and employed the remainder of those days in the inspection of the borough, and in collecting information, the result of which I have the honour to lay before you in the fol- lowing Report:— 1. 'I'he inquiry took place upon a petition from the muni- cipal borough of Newport. The signatures attached are very numerous, and include those of a county member, the present and late mayor, the vicar, several borough magistrates and members of the Corporation, 11 medical men, and a large body of rate- ers. 2. I id in all quarters great readiness to afford the re- quisite assistance, and there was placed at my disposal a mass of information relating to the sanitary condition of the borough, collected by the Health Committee, under the Board of Guard- ians, whose exertions have been carried on for several months past, and have been attended with much success. I received from various other quarters maps and plans of the town, and much verbal and documentary evidence concerning the sewerage and water supply. 3, I have especially to acknowledge the presence and sup- port of Mr. Wm. Evans, mayor; the Rev. Edward Hawkins, vicar ; Mr. Thomas Woollett, town clerk ; Mr. Samuel Horn- fray, a county magistrate; Mr. T. Hughes, a borough magis- trate ; Mr. Joseph Latch, chairman of the Health Committee; Messrs. R. Mullock and Lewis Edwards, aldermen ; Mr. 3'. Morris, alderman and surveyor; Mr. F. Justice, on the part of Sir C. Morgan; Mr. E. S. Barber, surveyor; Mr. Corn. Evans, clerk to the I.<ocal (.’ommissioners; Mr. W. D. Evans, specter. Northampton, 28th October, 1849. [77] H 2