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Catalogue reference: MH 82/66
Date: 1964 July 22-1969 May 8
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Folios 75-77. To: The General Board of Health. From: Messrs B Page and Co, Oxford...
Catalogue reference: MH 13/171/34
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This record is about the Folios 75-77. To: The General Board of Health. From: Messrs B Page and Co, Oxford... dating from 1855 Oct 24 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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- 1855 Oct 24
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Folios 75-77.
To: The General Board of Health.
From: Messrs B Page and Co, Oxford Street, Southampton [Hampshire].
Subject Matter: Letter enclosing a memorial [petition] from certain owners and occupiers of houses situated in Oxford Street, Terminus Terrace, Latimer Street, John Street, and Barnard Street, Southampton, calling attention to the overflow of the sewers in these districts, 'which continually takes place with rain, at high water, to the height of three or four feet in the kitchens, evolving gases, during and previous to inundation, of a most offensive nature, admitted by the Officer of the Local Board to be a productive source of fever and other diseases; and he regrets that the power to enforce an immediate remedy is not vested in him'.
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General Board of Health and Home Office, Local Government Act Office: Correspondence
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