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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    P.S. When Mr. Rawlinson visits Bilston, the surveyor of the roads, a» as myself, will be happy to furnish any information he may desire, and ould make a point of being in the way, and of intimating 'the same to surveyor, on receiving a short previous notice. Extract from the Minutes made at a Special Meeting of the Trustees of ton Market, on Saturday the 22nd of December, 1849, pursuant to a isition (rom two of the trustees to the clerk, requesting him to call meeting ' to consider the notices which have been published in the spapers of an intended application to Parliament in the ensuing Session a local Act for Bilston, whereby power is proposed to be taken to sfer the management of the market from the present trustees to a Board ' appointed under the said Act.' The trustees having taken into consideration the notices referred to believing that the contemplated change would be attended with no' ficial result either to the public, to the tenants of the market or gagees, and that the sanitary wants of the township can be better lied under the provisions of the Public Health Act: Resolved—That the trustees disapprove of the intended application to ament, and will, if proceeded with, oppqse the same so far as relates e intended interference with Bilston Market. At the same time the ees are willing to give consent to the local Board to !)e appointed under ubhc Health Act to make use of the property vested in the trustees y way that will conduce to the benefit of the town, provided that in ing the local Board do not interfere with the powers of the trustees to :i.)ury of their property. Ordered-That our clerk transmit a copy of the above resolution to the lal Board of Health, and also to their inspector Mr. Rawlinson.' Parsonage, Bilston, January 3, 1850. ^h^lH^v^''^? requested by a meeting of some of my parishioners, lb ed this day to consider the propriety of addressing the General Board tP Ril] r been adopted by the promoters of a te Bill for Bilston, to ask the favour of your laying the enclosed state- betore the General Board. 1 send, also, a new'spaper contain n- a account of the proceedings of a town's meeting together with ^he ay account' of the Bilston Gaslight and Coke Company, as vouchers e correctness ot some statements made to the General Board of h in the enclosed letter. At the town's meeting above referred to a lation was appointed to wait, upon the General Board of Hea th in to lay before them the result of their committee's proceedings .'liTiMn^R r' '° rP'^^'^l'^ Rawlinson has so 'recently ^^^X^n:;^:^ '^''^ ^^--^ .ut since, notwithstanding that gentleman's further inquirv into our the advocates of the private Bill have thought prop? trrequesra c HeaTthXt'*'' ^rr'i tl-se Iho^rffn faJoSr « a alth vvi ^tf.t. ''i'-'^K ^'y acquaint the General Board aL'l^I'm'wsTac:''^ ''^ 'h^y -eived the late . „ I remain, 8tc. ISSj^i. ••H.S.F..rc„.„. a Meeting held (by permission) at the Savings-Bank, Bilston on hursday the 3rd day of January, 1850, to consider what steps it mav e advisable to take to prevent the town being regulated by the private