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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/E27/Box 1/2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/12/2
TitleGeneral Health Committee
DescriptionHandwritten minutes of the committee. Matters discussed include: complaints received about nuisances and Inspector of Nuisances report; chemical manure works at Diglis; bills paid, with person to be paid, services rendered and amount to be paid; drainage and sewerage; lodging houses; public baths and bathing in the Severn; slaughterhouses, including table of slaughterhouses listing owner, location and date established (annotated); glued-in notices and committee reports printed or published in newspapers; disease outbreaks, including smallpox in 1872; mortality rates; construction of a infectious diseases hospital by the Guardians of the Poor; petroleum licences, giving names, location and amount of petroleum to be stored, and also a copy of the licence regulations; industrial smoke pollution; names, ages and residences of the 46 men who applied for position of Sanitary Inspector and Inspector of Nuisances, 1871; complaints regarding the number and smell of bodies buried under the floor in city churches; and drownings at the river near Pitchcroft.

Those proposing or seconding motions are recorded, and later entries occasionally specify voting decisions. Some letters received have been copied out in full. Alphabetical index at rear of the volume.
Date1863-1873
CategoryShelf 656
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