Report to the General Board of Health on a second inquiry to extend the boundaries of the the district of the town of Eton in Buckinghamshire / by Edward Cresy, Superintending Inspector.

  • Cresy, Edward, 1792-1858.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a second inquiry to extend the boundaries of the the district of the town of Eton in Buckinghamshire / by Edward Cresy, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report to the General Board of Health, on a Second Inquiry, ti extend the Boundaries of the District of tlie Town of Eton in Buckinghamshire. By Edward Cresy, Superintending Inspector. My Lords and Gentlemen, A memorial of the chairman and members of the Eton Local Board of Health, having been presented to the Genera* Board of Health, showing— That Her Majesty by and with the advice of her Privy Council, 01 the 6th day of October, 1849, ordered and directed that the Public Health Act, 1848, should be applied, and put in full force and opera tion, within and throughout the entire area, places, and parts of places comprised within such part or district of the parish of Eton, in the county of Bucks, as is bounded on the north by Barnes Pool and Cot terell's Close; on the east and south-east by the Tangreo mill-stream and part of the River Thames; on the south by other part of th< said river; and on the west by the Brocas, the Little South Meadow and the Great South Meadow respectively; and that such area, places and parts of places, should be and constitute a district for the purpose of the said Public Health Act, accordingly. That the district named in such order as aforesaid is only a portioi of the said parish of Eton, and consists of 420 houses, or thereabouts and a population of 2,688, or thereabouts, and contains the poore; part of such parish; the whole rateable value of such property beinj. 4,500/. or thereabouts. That by (he above order the whole of the houses and property denominated Eton College, all of which is in the said parish of Eton, if excluded from the powers, clauses, and operation of the said Public Health Act, and as evidence that such excluded part of the said parisl is the most valuable and influential, your Memorialists beg to call the attention of your Honourable Board to the part of such excluded dis- trict, containing H5 houses only, or thereabouts, with a population o only; but the rateable value of such property is 5,600/., oi thereabouts, being considerably more than the value of the propertj. within the district of your Memorialists' Board. That the owners, occupiers, and students of Eton College aforesaid which is excluded from your Memorialists' district, participate in at the benefits, advantages, and accommodation arising from the sanitary and other measures carried out in your Memorialists' district, but dc not in any manner contribute to the expenses thereof. *' That your Memorialists' Board presume that the said college dis- trict was excluded in consequence of such district having ample, good, and effectual drainage, but that it is not the wisli of your Memorialists Board to seek to make the said coliege to contribute towards the drainage of the town, but merely for general purposes. [209.]