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 parish of Whitstable / by Thomas Webster Rammell.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1849
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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 parish of Whitstable / by Thomas Webster Rammell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    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 Town of Whit- stable. By Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Grwydyr House, Whitehall, My Lords and Sir, May i, 1849. I HAVE the honour to inform you that, in accordance with your directions, I have visited the town of Whitstable, in the county of Kent. Having caused the requisite notices to be issued for a meeting on the 18th of January last, I commenced on that day, at the “ Bear and Key ” inn in the town, a public inquiry with respect to the matters mentioned in my instructions, and set forth in the published notices. I continued the inquiry throughout the two following days, the 19th and 20th January, and, during the course of it, the following witnesses appeared before me, and were examined :— 1. Robert Tritton Whorlow,'postmaster, and assessor for Whitstable and Seasalter. 2. William Hyder, gentleman. 3. William Gand, master mariner. 4. Henry Holden, grocer. 5. Samuel Hodges, smith. 6. James Smith, shoemaker, and sexton of Whitstable parish. 7. William Knight, draper. 8. John Auld, schoolmaster. 9. William Beer, farmer, surveyor of highways for Whit- stable. 10. John Marshall, retired officer. 11. Widow Beale. 12. James Edward Mitchell Williams, surgeon, registrar for the district. I also, accompanied by the greater number of the persons who attended the meeting, perambulated the town, and examined the site, the construction of the buildings, the state of the streets and open spaces, the works for surface and refuse drainage and [6.] B 2