Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry as to the boundaries which might be most advantageously adopted for Alfreton, in the county of Derby, for the purposes of the Public Health Act / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector.

  • Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry as to the boundaries which might be most advantageously adopted for Alfreton, in the county of Derby, for the purposes of the Public Health Act / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    population than 2,000, inasmuch as hy section 50 of the same Act, other and less expensive means are pointed out whereby the same end may be attained. 7. That the petition presented to the Board of Health for the adop- tion of the Act of 1848, was hastily and inconsiderately taken, under an imaginary impression and assurance in the soliciting signatures thereto, that the rate for the water would not in any case exceed 2d. per week to each householder. But the outlay in establishing such water-works and sewerage by means of district and other rates, was not explained to such petitioners 8. That the water of the town, of which there are many springs, and additional pumps in contemplation of being put down, (admitting a portion of such springs to be slightly chalybeate,) yet very few, if any, complaints have occurred of the water being unfit for household or culinary purposes, or of its being prejudicial to the health of the in- habitants, and is now procurable at a much less expense to the house- holders than that suggested in the said Report. 9. That your petitioners confidently submit lo the Public Board of Health, that there does not now exist any occasion whatever for the adoption of the said Act of 1848, so far as respects the sewerage and supply of water within the town, and therefore retvuest the said Board will be pleased to direct that the progress of all further proceedings under the provisions of the Act be abandoned, or at least suspended, to afford the inhabitants further time for consideration in the premises. [Here follow 81 signatures.] Alfreton, September 23, 1850. I, the undersigned Francis Bradley, the assistant-overseer of the poor, and collector of the poor's-rates of the parish of Alfreton, in the county of Derby, do hereby certify that the annual rated value of the township of Alfreton, as appears by the last assessment for the relief of the poor, omitting the sum of 80/. charged upon one John Chadburn, for a corn-mill, now unoccupied, amounts to the sum of 4,703/. IS*. ; and; that the amount of such rates on the several persons whose names are appended to the foregoing petition are, in the aggregate, 2,9S4/. Is. Francis Bradley, Assistant- Overseer. (B-) Alfreton Water Works. Alfreton, September 21, 1850. In consequence of nefarious and false representations being made by certain individuals to many of us the undersigned, for the purpos of obtaining our signatures to a petition against the adoption of water- works, and wc having been thus deceived, do hereby urge most earnestly the necessity of Mr. Lee's plan being forthwith carried out. [Here follow 152 signatures.]