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 Northowram and Southowram / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Ranger
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 Northowram and Southowram / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 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 Townships of Nokthowram and forming part of the Borough of Halifax, in the County of York. By William Ranger, Esq., Superintending Inspector. London, May 28, 1850. My Lords and Gentlemen, A PETITION duly signed by one-tenth of the rated inha- bitants of those portions of the townships of Northowram and SouTHOWRAM as are situate within the borough of Halifax, having been presented to the Board on the 28th of November, 1849, as follows:— “ We, the undersigned inhabitants of the portions of the townships of Northowram and Southowram, in the county of York, which are situate within the borough of Halifax, in the same county (the same being a place having a known or defined boundary), and rated to the relief of the poor, and being one-tenth in number of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor of and within the same place, do hereby petition the General Board of Health to direct a Superintending Inspector to visit the said place, and to make inquiry, and examine with respect thereto, with a view to the applica- tion of the ‘ Public Health Act,’ according to the provisions thereof?^ Pursuant to your instructions to make such inquiry, I gave the notice required by the Act 11 and 12 Viet., cap. 63, proceeded to Halifax on the 21st day of May, and on the 22nd opened the inquiry at 10 A.M., in the Town Hall (which had been placed at my disposal by the worshipful the mayor). I held sittings during the early part of that and the following days, devoting the latter portion of each day to a personal inspec- tion of the various localities and houses inhabited by the industrial and poorer classes, concluding the inquiry on the 27th. Evidence was adduced by John Crossley, Esq., Mayor; John Abbott, Esq., J. P„ treasurer of the borough; G. Beaumont, Esq., J. P.; Mr. Alderman Booth; Mr. Alderman Dennis; Messrs. Bentley and Green, councillors; E. Akroyd, Esq., J. P.; Ely Bates, Esq.; W. Alexander, Esq., M.D. ; George Haigh, Esq.,, high constable; Mr. Manks, surveyor of highways; Mr. Barker, auditor of the Union; J. W. Child, Esq.; 'I’homas Barraclough, Esq.: Messrs. S. Howarth, Priestly, Green, Phelon, Mann, Oakes, E. Ramsden, S. Rhodes; Thomas Spiers, inspector of police; J. Womersley, collector of rates; J. Noble, and R. Sutcliffe, assistant overseers; J. Jagger, assistant surveyor of highways; J. Best, grave-digger. The parish of Halifax is one of the largest and most populous [153.] b2