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
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 townships of Alnwick and Canongate, in the county of Northumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![■ district (ss. 87, 89). Arable, meadow, pasture, and woodland, market- gardens and nursery-grounds, land covered with water, canals, and towing-paths, and land used as a railway, to be assessed upon one- fourth only (s. 88). The general district rate will consist of the ex- penses of preliminary inquiry, salaries, &c, of local officers and servants, and certain casual expenses; and all such expenses of executing the Act as are not defrayed by means of any other rate, or out of the dis- trict fund account (see s. 87). The district fund account will consist of the proceeds arising from the sale of sewage, &c, penalties recover- able by the local Board, and certain other miscellaneous sums received by them. Special District Bates (s. 86).—Special district rates will be for making, enlarging, altering, or covering sewers (s. 89). This rate will be levied upon either the whole or part of a district, according to cir- cumstances. But those persons only will be liable whose property has been benefited by the expenses in respect of which the rate is made (s. 86). Water-rate (s. 93).—This rate will be levied for water supplied for the purposes of domestic use, cleanliness, and house drainage (s. 93). Property to be assessed—the premises supplied (s. 93). The rates for public and private improvements may be spread over any period not exceeding 30 years, but must be so distributed as to pay off the expenses in respect of which the rate is made, together with in- terest not exceeding 51. per cent., within that period (s. 90). 6th. Estimates will have to be furnished to the ratepayers for all new work undertaken, and before the money can be raised the General Board must be satisfied that such work is well devised, economical, and for the present and permanent advantage of the ratepayers. This is to secure the ratepayer against local incom- petency and extravagance, and to furnish at the least cost the best practical information the existing state of scientific knowledge can afford. & The advantages to the landowner and farmer will not be less than those furnished to the inhabitants of the towns, villages, and hamlets. ° 1st. Perfect land drainage must in a great measure depend upon a good outfall for the surface-water, and this will be provided for at the least cost after a correct survey has been arranged and the district examined by a competent surveyor. Intermediate property may require to be cut through; roads will have to be traversed or crossed; and as the local Board will be competent to under- take this, the interest] of all parties may be consulted, and such works may be so laid out and executed as to serve for the draining of several parishes, townships, villages, and estates, as the case may be, any one of which would be unduly oppressed if obliged to lorego the necessary improvement or have alone to carry it out. 2nd. Good roads are necessary for the whole community, and to no class will they be more beneficial than to the farmer. They will enable him to bring manure on his land, and to perform all his operations, where wheeled vehicles are used, at the least cost; and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20423469_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
