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Folios 192-193. To: The General Board of Health. From: Richard Palmer, Clerk to the...

Catalogue reference: MH 13/148/98

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This record is about the Folios 192-193. To: The General Board of Health. From: Richard Palmer, Clerk to the... dating from 1851 May 23 in the series General Board of Health and Home Office, Local Government Act Office: Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MH 13/148/98
Date
1851 May 23
Description

Folios 192-193.

To: The General Board of Health.

From: Richard Palmer, Clerk to the Local Board of Health, Preston [Lancashire].

Subject Matter: Letter enclosing a resolution passed by the Local Board of Health on 23 May 1851. The resolution states that 'this Board is of the opinion that its efforts to carry into operation the Health of Towns Act [Public Health Act 1848] for the general advantage of the Town would be greatly limited and embarrassed by the exemption of the Township of Fishwick (which is an integral portion of the Borough of Preston) from the operation of the said Act, and that for such exemption no sufficient reason has been given'.

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Open Document, Open Description
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