Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the township of Elland-cum-Greetland, in the county of York / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Ranger
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the township of Elland-cum-Greetland, in the county of York / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.; Report to the General Board of Health on a Further Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of the Township of Elland-cum-Oreetland, in the County of York. By William Ranger, Esq., Superintending Inspector. 2a Pall Mall, April 19th 1852. My Loeds and Gentlemen, I have the honour to lay before you the following Report, founded on the result of a second inquiry, which I held at Elland in March last, in accordance with the 9th section of the Public Health Act, to that effect; printed notices of my intention having been previously circulated in the manner prescribed by the Act. • The inquiry was commenced at the Saville Arms inn, on Wednesday the 17th of March 1852, where I found 'the following gentlemen assembled :—Messrs. C. & A. Pitch- forth, J. W. & G. B. Baker, Hirst, Waddington, Slater (Sur- geon), D. Dutton, W. Watson, T & H. Hawkyard, Joshua Dodgson, J. Burley, Abraham Hanson, Samuel Holstead, and William Brook, the three latter forming a deputation from a town's meeting. Before entering upon the more immediate object of the present Report, I may be permitted to remind your Honour- able Board, that when I presented my Preliminary Report on the sanitary condition of Elland, I then stated that I con- sidered the Public Health Act should be applied not to the township of Elland-cum-Greetland, but to that portion of it indicated upon the plan prefixed to the Report; I also recommended that the qualification for a member of the Local Board of Health should consist in his being rated to the relief of the poor upon an annual value of not less than 151. To the first of these two recommendations no objections were made, nor had any written communications on the subject been previously made to your Honourable Board [29] A 2