Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry held in the town of Exmouth, and parishes of Littleham and Withycombe Rawleigh, in the county of Devon, consequent upon the proposed alteration of boundaries for the purposes of the Public Health Act / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector.

  • Rammell, Thomas Webster
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry held in the town of Exmouth, and parishes of Littleham and Withycombe Rawleigh, in the county of Devon, consequent upon the proposed alteration of boundaries for the purposes of the Public Health Act / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Vict., Cap. 63). Report to the General Board of Health on a further Inquiry held in the Town o/ Exmouth, and the Parishes of Littleham and Withycombe Rawleigh, in the County of Devon, consequent upon the proposed Alteration of Boundaries for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848. By Thomas Webster Rammell, Esq., Superintending Inspector. Gwydyr House, Whitehall, My Lords and Gentlemen, May 24,1850. An alteration in the existing boundaries having been recom- mended in my Report to your Honourable Board, upon a pre- liminary inquiry held in the town of Exmouth in the county of Devon, you were pleased to direct me again to visit the parts, to make the further inquiry necessary to the proposed district being constituted. It appeared from the statements contained in that Report, that, in case the Public Health Act should be applied to Exmouth, the boundaries which may be most advantageously adopted for its purposes are not the same as those of the parish of Littleham, from which the petition for inquiry emanated; and that it would be proper to exclude from the parish of Littleham such parts of it as lie beyond the dotted line in the map accompanying the Report, and to add to the remainder such parts of the parish of Withy- combe Rawleigh as lie within the same line. In pursuance of these further directions, I caused the proper notice to be given of my intention to hold a public meeting at the Globe Inn, Exmouth, on the 22nd May instant; when I should be prepared to hear all parties desirous of being heard before me upon the subject of my former Report. On proceeding to the appointed place I found a numerous attendance, including most of the influential ratepayers who had been present on the occasion of my former visit. Having proved the publication of the notice, and ascertained that copies of it had been duly posted in the parts, I opened the proceed- ings by reading the written statements or memorials which had been forwarded to your Honourable Board, in compliance with the terms of the notification prefixed to my before-mentioned Report, and which are two in number; one being from the Committee appointed at a general meeting of the rate-payers of the parishes of Littleham and Withycombe, held at Exmouth, pursuant to public notice, on the 4th day of February, 1850, and the other from certain owners of property, or ratepayers, residing in the parishes of Littleham or Withycombe, in the county of Devon, within the district proposed to be included for the purposes of the Public Health Act; the former documents expressing sentiments generally adverse to the application of the Act; the latter—which [146.]