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 New Sleaford / 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 parish of New Sleaford / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £o4-2.ullo CATION. iby give notice, ia terms of section in or before the 29th of Jane, wiitiaJ ie Board with respect to any matter companying Report on the Sewagd nd the Sanitary ConditiOT of the In- Sleafoio, tM* aspect t« ®> By infer A HenwAus^i Report to the General Board of Health, on a Preliminary Inquiry into the Seicerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the Parish of N ew Sleaford, in the County of Lincoln. By William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Ma LORDS AND Gentlemen, London, December 20, 1849. A petition having been presented to the Board on behalf of the inhabitants of the parish of New Sleaford, duly signed, and headed as follows:— “We, the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of New Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, being upwards of one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor of the said parish, do hereby signify to the General Board of Health our desire that the Act of ParTiament, 11th and 12th Victoria, cap. 63, for promoting the public health, may be made applicable to the said parish, and that a Local Board of Health of the inhabitants may be formed for the purposes of the said Act:” pursuant to your instructions I gave the notice required by the said Act, proceeded to Sleaford, and on the 2nd of October, 1848, and following days, instituted a public inquiry with reference to the following matters:— The sewage, drainage, and supply of water; The number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants; The state of the burial-ground; The natural drainage areas; Existing local boundaries— v and other matters; for the purpose of enabling the Board to judge of the propriety of complying with the request of the peti- tioners, by applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to the said town of New Sleaford. THE REPORT I have now the honour of submitting to your consideration, is based upon the evidence given by the principal medical men, the churchwardens, and other gentlemen resident in the town, and by the county surveyor; combined with information received from occu- PJe‘s ? tenements at the time ol making a domiciliary inspection ot their dwellings, especially in the haunts of fever, and other con- agious diseases, viz., Hyde’s-yard, Payne’s and Camomile’s- ' yarUSrW lurchwardens’ houses, ‘the neighbourhood of slaughter- [83.] > B ‘2