Three reports relating to the Hastings water : with an appendix of letters, &c. / Ordered to be printed by the Hastings Local Board of Health.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Three reports relating to the Hastings water : with an appendix of letters, &c. / Ordered to be printed by the Hastings Local Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    No. 9. Letter from the Town Clerh of Hastings to the Lord President of the Privy Council. (Answer to the preceding.) Hastings, 18th Feb., 1859. My Lord, I am directed by the Mayor of this Borough to inform you that he has laid before the Hastings Council, acting as the Local Board of Health, the letters dated the 26th of Nov. and the 29th of Dec. last, from the Privy Council OfiQ.ce, on the subject of the injurious effects of leaden tanks upon the water in this town; and the Local Board of Health have caused steps to be taken to have the water analyzed by a competent analyst in London, to whom samples of water have been sent. As soon as the Local Board are informed of the result, they will report thereon to your Lordship ; but before doing so, the Local Board wish to be informed whether there is any other communication from Dr. Garrett to your Lordship, the contents of which have not been forwarded to the Board.* At present the Board have only received a copy of one letter dated the 16th of Nov. last. I am, your Lordship’s obedient servant, , KOBEET GEOWSE, Town Clerk To the Lord President of the Privy Council. No. 10. Letter from the Town Clerh of Hastings to one of the Secretaries of the East-Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, Hastings Local Board of Health, Town Clerk’s OfiQce, 1st Jan., 1859. Dear Sir, I am instructed by the Hastings Local Board of Health to write and ask you to call the attention of the * [No answer has yet been received to this request, March 2.]