The Public Health Acts, 1848 and 1849; (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 94,) : together with an analysis, forms, &c. / By Thomas William Saunders.
- Thomas William Saunders
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Public Health Acts, 1848 and 1849; (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 94,) : together with an analysis, forms, &c. / By Thomas William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the larger locality, and have the requisite signatures 11 * ’y.',CT of one-tenth of the whole rated inhabitants, though ' there is nothing which prohibits the petition from being signed exclusively by the rated inhabitants of such smaller locality, and therefore a petition, though signed by the inhabitants of one alone of many par- ishes or wards, constituting a city or borough, &c. if bearing the proper proportion of one-tenth to the inhabitants of the whole city, borough, &c. will be perfectly good. Form ok Petition of Inhabitants to the General Board of Health. To the General Board of Health. We the undersigned, being one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor, for the city, tenon, borough, parish, or place, having a definite boundary [ns the case wag Ae], do hereby, in pursuance to the provisions contained in “ The Public Health Act, 1848,” petition your honourable board to direct a superin- tending inspector to visit the said [cily, town, <fc.] and to make public inquiry, and report thereon, as in and by the said act is provided, to the end that the said act may be put in force within the said [city, town, ijf-c.j Dated, this day of 184 . John Thompson High Street Gentleman. George Smith Park Place Grocer. IV illiam Evans Ivy Cottage Ksquire. [The number must be not less than thirty.] Notice of inquiry to be given by the inspector, and proceedings t hereupon.•—If the General Board determine upon causing the preliminary inquiry to be made, an inspector is to proceed to the locality for the purpose ; (a) but before entering upon his inquiry he must give fourteen days’ notice ofjhis intention to make the same, and of the time and place at which he will be pre- pared to hear all persons desirous of being heard before him upon the subject, by advertisement in some one or more of the public newspapers usually cir- culated in the parts to which the inquiry will relate, and by causing such notice to be affixed on the doors of the principal churches, chapels, public buildings, and places where such public notices are usually affixed, within such parts, and in such other manner](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28752788_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
