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 town of bromyard, in the county of Hereford / by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, Superintending Inspector.

  • Babbage, Benjamin Herschel.
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 town of bromyard, in the county of Hereford / by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kstimate of Water-supply. Cast-iron main-pipe 4-inch diameter Branch ditto 3 ditto . Ditto ditto 2 ditto . Screw cocks 40 fire-plugs Reservoir at top of Sheep-street Filtering apparatus for ditto Land and fencing for ditto . Drains for collecting water for ditto Tenants' communication pipes tol walls of bouses J Add 10 per cent, for contingencies . Yards. 400 350 1,860 ». d. 379 5 0 18 0 0 40 0 0 350 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 80 0 0 93 18 0 £. s. d, 379 5 0 58 0 0 730 0 0 93 18 0 1,261 3 126 2 £ 1,387 5 3 Return of Vital Statistics of the Town of Bbomyabd. Years. 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 Number of Marriages. 11 8 16 11 18 10 24 18 17 16 11 Number of Births 36 36 29 37 32 39 40 45 38 38 26 Number of Deaths. 21 29 34 32 32 37 43 27 31 26 23 34 Average Age at Death, 42 39 44 34 39 45 49 48 45 40 39 39 Average Age of the living. 29'8 29-6 29- 29- 29- 29- 28- 27-8 27-6 27-5 27-7 27-7 •5 •5 •5 ■1 ■4 I Loii.lou • Printed by W. Ci.owks and Sons, Stamford Street. For Her Majesty's Slalioiit'ry Ollici'.
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