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 borough of Newbury, in the county of Berks. / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector.

  • Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853.
Date:
1852
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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 borough of Newbury, in the county of Berks. / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Robert Atkimson Ryott complained of the Marsh ditch at the back of the houses on the east side of North Brook-street. In the summer time there are emanations tliat are likely to he pestilential, and privies are allowed to run into the brook. He also complained of Marsh-lane. Mr. Graham directed attention to the surface drainage in Bartholomew-street and the cit}^ Mr. Mason complained of the same places, and of North Brook-street; saying, that the drainage was insufficient to carr}' off the filth. He also complained of the condition of the churchyard. Mr. R. Martin complained of the Rose and Thistle yard, where there was a dungheap, nuisances, and bad drainage ; also of the imperfect drainage in Mayor’s-lane and Cheap- street. Mr. James Asprey complained of a place on the Wash- road, where manure is manufactured out of night-soil, and of a heap of manure, &c., belonging to the Commissioners, near the New Town-road, which, he stated, was very offen- sive at times. Henry Gochvln, Esq., solicitor, complained of the filthy state of the Hatchet-yard in the Market-place. Mr. J. Roake complained of the existence of filth for want of drainage in the Whitehall-yard in Bartholomew-street; also, that there are cottages in Old New Town-road without any water supply or privies. Mr. Samuel complained of the condition of North Croft-lane. The Anchor public-house has no drainage, and all the refuse from it is tlnown out into the lane. Other people do the same, and there is a bad smell. The Court was then adjourned until the town had been inspected. The minutes of that inspection will appear in a subsequent p.art of this Report. Description and Government.—Newbury is a borough, market town, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a Union, locally in the hundred of Faircross in the county of Berks, seventeen miles from Reading, and fifty-six west by south from London. ihe town, including part of the parish of Speen, is one of the largest in the county. It is situate in a fertile district on the banks of the river Kennet. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the town. ^