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 town and Township Ormskirk, in the County of Lancaster
By: by Robert Rawlinson, Esq., Superintendending Inspector
Contributors: Great Britain. General Board of Health
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Sanitation; Public health; Water-supply
Other titles: Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict. cap 63)
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early history of town; title: Local government; title: Mortality; title: Table of poor's-rates and out-door relief; title: Remarks on the advantage of local government; title: Public meeting at the town-hall; title: Inquiry and evidence; title: Existing sewers and drains; title: Personal inspection of town and district; title: Water-supply. Evidence on present supply; title: Gas and fire-engine establishment; title: Burial-grounds; title: Streets and roads; title: rate, repairs, &c.; title: Villa residences; title: advantageous sites for; title: Slaughter-houses, under no regulations; title: Room-tenements and common lodging-houses; title: Remarks and observations on tile-making, as also on town drainage; title: Remedial measures and new works proposed; title: Water-supply. Proposed source considered; title: Recommendations. Boundary for the purposes of Act; title: Summary of conclusions and recommendations.