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 Morpeth and the village of Bedlington / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

  • Robert Rawlinson
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 Morpeth and the village of Bedlington / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The rates leviable under the Public Health Act are, first, public rates, and, second, private rates. The general district rate may be levied over the whole or part of a district (ss. 87, 89). Arable, meadow, pasture, and wood-land, market-gardens and nursery-grounds, land covered with water, canals and towing-paths, and land used as a rail- way, to be assessed upon one-fourth only (s. 88). The general district rate will consist of the expenses of preliminary inquiry, salaries, &c, of local officers and servants, and certain casual expenses ; and all such expenses of executing the Act as are not defrayed by means of any other rate, or out of the district fund account (see s. 87). The district fund account will consist of the proceeds arising from the sale of sewage, &c, penalties recoverable by the local Board, and certain other mis- cellaneous sums received by them. Special District Rates (s. 86).—Special district rates will be for making, enlarging, altering, or covering sewers (s. 89). This rate will be levied upon either the whole or part of a dis- trict, according to circumstances. But those persons only will be liable whose property has been benefited by the expenses in respect of which the rate is made (s. 86). Water Rate (s. 93).—This rate will be levied for water sup- plied for the purposes of domestic use, cleanliness, and house drainage (s. 93). Property to be assessed,—the premises sup- plied (s. 93). The rates for public and private improvements may be spread over any period not exceeding 30 years, but must be so distri- buted as to pay off the expenses in respect of which the rate is made, together with interest at 51. per cent., within that period (s. 90). Existing Boundaries.—The Parliamentary borough of Mor- peth comprises the following townships : Area. Rateable Value, Popula- tion. 1841. Names of Townships. Statute Roods. Perches. Acres. Buller's Green .... Newminster Abbey . Morpeth Castle, Stobhill,) and Catch-bum . . . / Tranwell and Hitfh Church 573 100 717 1,491 1,220 1,594 8,910 3 • • 2 • • • • 3 15 'io 15 9 24 • • £. s. d. 6,141 6 6 347 12 6 1,630 15 0 4,344 16 0 1,557 3 0 2,049 18 0 13,131 15 0 3,441 169 107 145 55 183 3,155 Total Acres . . . 14,607 1 3 29,203 6 0 7,255 J. lie extreme ieu^m caoi. uuu .uuwui. ~j -4 extreme breadth north and south ; and the whole area is about 26 miles in circumference.
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