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 parish of Selby, in the county of York / by William Lee.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health.
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 parish of Selby, in the county of York / by William Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Viet,, 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 Parish 0/Selby, in the West Riding of the County of York. By William Lee, Esq., Civil Engineer, Superintending Inspector. Whereas, in pursuance of the Public Health Act, (1848,) the General Board of Health appointed for the purposes of that Act, have, upon the petition of not less than one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor of and within the parish of Selby, in the West Riding of the County of York, (the number I of the said petitioners greatly exceeding thirtj’^ in the whole,) directed William Lee, a Superintending Inspector, appointed for the purposes of the said Act, to visit the said parish, and to make public inquiry, and to examine witnesses as to the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, the state of the burial-grounds, i the number and sanitary condition of the inhabitants, and as to 1 any local Acts of Parliament in force within such parish for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regulating, supplying with I water, or improving the said parish, or having relation to the pur- j poses of the said Act; also as to the natural drainage areas, and f the existing parochial or other local boundaries, and the boundaries which might be most advantageously adopted for the purposes of the said Act:— Now I, the said William Lee, having previously given the notices required by the said Act, proceeded upon the said inquiry in the manner directed by the said Act, and do report in writing to the said General Board upon the several matters with respect to which I was directed to inquire as aforesaid, and upon certain ' other matters, in respect of which I deem it expedient to report for the purposes of the said Act as follows;— \ Gwydyr House, \^th August 1850. I My Lords and Gentlemen, After receiving your instructions and giving the requisite i notices, I proceeded to Selby, and opened the inquiry into the sanitary condition of the parish in the Town Hall there, on Wed- nesday the 6th day of March last, at 10 o’clock in the morning. ! A considerable number of the influential inhabitants of the town was present, and after taking the evidence of Mr. Matthew Butterworth, proving that the public notices of the inquiry had [171.] B 2