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 townships of Alnwick and Canongate, in the county of Northumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

  • Robert Rawlinson
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 townships of Alnwick and Canongate, in the county of Northumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Expenditure on Cholera Cases in ] 849. Expenditure of the Board of Guardians in furnishing necessaries to parties attacked by cholera, in burials, and in furnishing- new clothes in lieu of those which were £. s. d. burnt . ... . . . . 225 1 8 Payments to medical officers • . . 249 11 0 chemists. . . . . 83 6 3 Total expenditure out of poor's-rates for Alnwick 557 18 11 Additional payments to county medical officers for their services under the order of your Honourable Board ..... 110 10 0 Total money expenditure out of the poor's- rates consequent upon the cholera . 668 8 11 Add for private subscriptions . . . 896 4 9 Total .... £1,564 13 8 This sum is exclusive of all private expenditure on their own account made by persons above the rank of paupers, and can only be taken as the ascertained money loss during the month of cholera: the real loss to the whole community has been much beyond this sum. Geology.—The mountains of Scotland are known to be much older than the Alps, and the whole island has probably a much less elevation now than belonged to its early age. Many of the rivers on the east coast of England, such as the Aln, the Coquet, the Tyne, the Wear, and others, have no flat alluvial estuary, but flow betwixt steep and abrupt banks down into the ocean. They are like fragmental or upper branches of larger rivers. The east coast is a wasting shore generally, and the action of the sea, with a long-continued and slow subsidence of the land, may have gradually wasted and submerged a large area of country which existed previous to any written records of history, and far beyond the reach of tradition. The ruins of a submerged forest have recently been washed bare by the waves on the shore, near to Howick, and traces of this character exist on many other por- tions of the shores of England : betwixt the Mersey and the Dee, on the west, such remains are found. At Alemouth, properly Alnemouth, in the parish of Lesbury, the old burial-ground has been washed away by the sea; and with bones of men are found those of horses, supposed to have been slaughtered in border skirmishes. , The relative positions of the boulder formation, the carboniferous limestone, and the basaltic dikes or outbursts, are exemplified in a most interesting manner at Ratcheugh, about 3 miles from