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 Reading, in the county of Berks
By: by William Lee, Esq., , C.E., 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: 80
Subjects: Public health; Water-supply; Sanitation
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: List of seats of disease in St. Gile's; title: List of seats of disease St. Lawrence's; title: List of seats of disease St. Mary's; title: Former preliminary inquiry; title: Description, government, manufactures, and public institutions; title: Local acts of parliament; title: Reading Union Waterworks Company; title: Plans; title: Contour, geology, and meteorology; title: Population and rate of increase; title: Number and classification of houses; title: Physical condition of seats of disease; title: Disease and mortality; title: Connexion between the physical condition of the people and their moral and social state; title: Land drainage; title: Present drainage of the town; title: Cesspools and privy arrangements; title: Slaughterhouses; title: Supply of water; title: Ventilation of streets, courts, and houses, and condition of lodging-houses; title: Improvements in thoroughfares; title: Condition of the roads, and surface-cleansing; title: Divided jurisdiction over the public streets; title: State of the burial-grounds; title: Watching, lighting, and gas; title: Public Health Act beneficial; title: Improved water supply; title: Rating under the Public Health Act; title: Improved drainage of the town; title: Agricultural and subsoil drainage; title: Sewage distribution; title: Improved street ventilation; title: Improved paving; title: Improved cleansing; title: Slaughter-houses; title: Burial-grounds; title: Public baths and washhouses; title: Conclusions; title: Recommendations.