Report to the General Board of Health on a supplemental inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the township of Bilston, situated within the municipal borough and union of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford / 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 supplemental inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the township of Bilston, situated within the municipal borough and union of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hived, that he should be ready to sign any consent for a local Act, or Act promoted by the General Board of Health, giving the necessary vers to local commissioners to take these roads under their control, ere were gates within the district, which, in the opinion not only of se present, but of the town eenerally, were a great nuisance. They lid not go from one part of the town to another without passing ough a turnpike-gate and paying toll. Now, the powers of a local aid would be incomplete if they had not the power to remove those gates of the district. The Eev. B. Owen said— e assumed that, if the expense of repairing the roads was taken out of hands of the trustees, the reply of those gentlemen would be, that they Id not reasonably continue to receive the tolls. VJr. Perry assent.ed. VIr. Loxdale observed— at the people of Wolverhampton had given them a very good example •emovmg turnpike-gates to the outside of the town. Mr. Baldwin said— i wished that the trustees of the Bilston roads would follow the example heir neighbours, not only at Wolverhampton, but at Birmingham also. Che evidence will show that no advance can be made towards ' settlement of local differences, until some properly constituted hority is in existence, with whom the road trustees and others negotiate—.such as a local Board. UMMARY.—That the town of Bilston is not so healthy as it ■ht to be is abundantly proved by the general hio-h rate of •ta]ity, and by the terrible visitations of cholera. * hat the existing toll-gates are most oppressive and expensive lout conferring any adequate advantage on the ratepayers', iso proved by the evidence; that their removal, and placing the roads and streets within the township under one manage- it, would tend to true economy and belter sanitary arran^e- its. ° ^hat a proper form of local government is required, the whole ence proves. . liat a consolidation of the governing and rating power would I to equitable efficiency and economy, the following statement show. ® ^he question of works having been stated in my previous Re- t, it will not be necessary to repeat it here, furtjier than to say 1 Uo not see any engineering features of peculiar difficulty in iton which may not be cheaply and easily overcome. Mr. rten lias stated, with considerable fulness, the works contem- ed under the powers of the private Act, should such be ob- ed all of which maybe equally well carried out under the era! powers ot the Public Heahh Act, and at a less cost than it down in the estimate attached to that Report. The question 0 the necessity or not that Bilston should obtain a separate c2