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 town and parish of Beaconsfield / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector.

  • Rammell, Thomas Webster
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 town and parish of Beaconsfield / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Vic, Cap. 63). 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 Toion and Parish of Beaconsfield, in the County of Buckingham. By Thomas Webster Rammell, Esq., Superintending Inspector. My Lords and Gentlemen, Gwydyr House, March 13, 1850. A petition signed by 41 (being more than one-tenth) of the rated inhabitants of the parish of Beaconsfield, having been presented to your Honourable Board, praying that a Superin- tending Inspector might be directed to visit the parish, and to make inquiry and examination, with a view to the application thereto of the Public Health Act, 1848; you were pleased to instruct me to proceed to the parish, and to make a preliminary inquiry in accordance with the provisions of the Act in that behalf, and with respect to the following matters, viz.:— The sewerage, drainage, and water supply. The state of the burial-ground. The number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants. The local Acts of Parliament (if any) for paving, lighting, cleans- ing, watching, regulating, supplying with water, or improving, or having relation to the purposes of the said Act. The natural drainage areas. ** The existing parochial or other local boundaries. *' The boundaries which may be most advantageously adapted for the purpose of the said Act. And other matters in respect whereof your Honourable Board was desirous of being informed. In compliance with these instructions, I issued the necessary notices of my intention to enter upon such inquiry at the Saracen's Head Inn, in the town of Beaconsfield, on the 3rd of April last, when I should be ready to hear any persons who might be desirous of being heard before me on the subject of it. Upon proceeding to the appointed place at the time stated, I found assembled several of the more influential inhabitants and ratepayers, amongst whom were the Rev. John Gould, rector of the parish; Mr. Charsley, solicitor, and Coroner for Bucks; Mr. John Parton, solicitor; Mr. Rolfe, an extensive farmer and land-surveyor, residing in the parish; Mr. J. C. Rumsey, [116.] b2