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 Nantwich, in the county of Chester / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector.

  • Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853.
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 township of Nantwich, in the county of Chester / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 & 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 Sani- tary Condition of the Inhabitants of the T(atvw/t?);<^‘NANTWiCH, in the County of Chester. By William Lee, Esq., C.E., Superintending' Inspector. Gieydyr House, Febniary 15, 1850. Whereas, in pursuance of the Public Health Act, 1848, the General Board of Health, appointed for the purposes of that Act, have, upon the petition of not less than one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor of and within the township of Nantwich, in the county of Chester fthe number of the said ])etitioners greatly exceeding thirty in the whole) directed William Lee, a Superintending Inspector, appointed for the ])urposes of the said Act, to visit the said township, and to make public inquiry, and to examine witnesses as to the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, the state of the burial-grounds, the number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants, and as to any local Acts of Parliament in force within such township for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regulating, supplying with water, or improving the said town- ship, or having relation to the purposes of the said Act; also as to the natural drainage areas, and the existing parochial, local, or other boundaries, and the boundaries which might be most advantageously adopted for the purposes of the said Act. Now, I the said William Lee, having previously given the notices directed by the said Act. proceeded upon the said inquiry in the manner directed by the said Act, and do report in MT-iting to the said General Board upon the several matters with respect to which I Avas directed to inquire as aforesaid, and upon certain other matters, in respect of which I deem it ex- pedient to report for the purposes of the said Act, as follows :— My Lords and Gentlemen, piE inquiry was opened in the magistrates room at the police offices in Nantwich, at 10 o^clock on the morning’ of Wednesday, the 10th day of October last past, and was con- tinued by adjournment on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of the same month, until 1 had made an inspection of the whole of the township,^ and had heard all])crsons who chose to give'informa- tion touching the inquir'y. Robert Harding, deputy town-crier, proved that he had affixed notices of the in{[uirv upon the doors of places of worshi]), and all other ])laces where public notices were usually affixed, except the Unitarian and liaiitist [120.] n2 ‘