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 township of Broughton, in the county palatine of Lancaster / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

  • Rawlinson, Robert, 1810-1898.
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 township of Broughton, in the county palatine of Lancaster / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Vict, cap. 63.; Report to the General Board of Health on a Preliminary Inquiri < as to the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and th i Sanitary Condition of the Township of Broughton, in thft Comity Palatine of Lancaster. By Robert Kawlinson. Esq.] C.E., Superintending Inspector. My Lords and Gentlemen, London, July \850. Whereas, in pursuance of the Public Health Act, 184&' your Honourable Board appointed for the purposes of that Acc have, upon a certain petition from 140 of the inhabitants rated to thi relief of the poor of and within the township of Broughton, in th. county of Lancaster, directed Robert Rawlinson, a Superintendiu i Inspector appointed for the purposes of the Act, to visit the said townr ship, and to make public inquiry and to examine witnesses as to thli sewerage, drainage, and supply of watei-, the state of the buriall grounds, the number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants, ami as to any local Acts of Parliament in force within such townshii for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regxilating, and suppljv ing with water, or improving the said township, or having relatioo to the purposes of the Act; also as to the natural drainage-areas: and the existing municipal, parochial, or other local bonndariee and the boundaries whicli might be most advantageously adoptee for the purposes of the said Act:— Now I, Robert Rawlinson, having previously given the notice* directed by the Act, proceeded upon the inquiry in the mannoi directed by the Act, and do report in writing to your Honourab) Board upon the several matters with respect to which I was directet to inquire, and upon certain other matters in respect of whichi deem it expedient to report for the purposes of the Public Healt! Act, At the inquiry every required assistance was afforded by iH gentlemen who attended; and the agent of Colonel Clowes statec that he was authorized to sny that the Colonel wished that ari necessary information should be furnished. The inquiry w»( attended by W. S. Butter, Esq., solicitor, Messrs. Uoardmaa Priestly, Pennington, Tonge, Grave, Howarth, Blacklock, Lyncc Dr. Wood, and otliers.