Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry as to the boundaries which may be most advantageously adopted for a portion of the township of Broughton, in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, and county palatine of Lancaster / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

  • Rawlinson, Robert, 1810-1898.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a further inquiry as to the boundaries which may be most advantageously adopted for a portion of the township of Broughton, in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, and county palatine of Lancaster / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Vicl., cap. 63.) Report to the General Board of Health on a Further Inquiry as to the Boundaries tohich may be most advantageously adopted for a portion of the Toionship of Broughton, in the Parish of Man- chester, Hundred of Salford, and County Palatine of Lancaster. By Robert Rawlinson, Esq., Superintending Inspector. My Lords and Gentlemen, London, April, I85i. In consequence of a petition from more than one tenth of the rated inhabitants of Broughton, praying the General Board of Health to direct a- Superintending Inspector to visit the ^aid township, and to make inquiry and examination with cespect thereto, but more particularly with respect to that part thereof which is situate without the municipal borough of Salford, with a view to the application of the said Act to such last- mentioned part, according to the provisions of the said Act in that behalf, a preliminary inquiry was held, and a report has lecn pubUshed, as directed by the Act. And a further inquiry 3eing necessary to limit the Act, as requested, the following lotice was published in the local papers, and was duly posted IS the Act directs. Notice. Public Health Act, 1848. (Hand 12 Vict. c. 63.)—Whereas Robert Rawlinson, Esq., one of the Superintending Inspectors ippointed for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848, ind directed by the General Board of Health to make inquiry, ivith a view to the application of the said Act to the township )f Broughton, in the county palatine of Lancaster, has made his •eport in writing to the General Board of Health, upon the matters with respect to which he has been directed to inquire )y the said Board ; and it appearing to the said General Board )f Health, from the statements contained in such report, that in :asc the said Act should be applied to the said township, the boundaries which may be most advantageously adopted for the purposes of the said Act are not the same as those of the said township, and that, for such purposes, it would be proper tu exclude from the district proposed to be formed for the purposes of the said Act, such portions of the said township as are within and form part of the municipal borough of Salford, in the said county palatine of Lancaster, and which are more par-