Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1858 / by W. H. Duncan.

Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1858 / by W. H. Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    NOTES. Page 1G.—The Expenditure of the Health Committee in the ten years 1848—1858, was (in round numbers) for Paving, Flagging &c., £630,000; Sewerage &c.., £300,000 ; Removing Nuisances &c., and other purposes, £210,000. In addition, a very large sum has been expended in private drainage by the owners of property, under the compulsory powers of the Committee. The cost of an improved Water supply within the same period has amounted to more than a million and a half sterling. Table III.—An average of the preceding twelve years gives the Mean Reading of Barometer 29.90 inches. Mean Annual Temperature 50° 2 Yearly Rainfall 2G.5 inches.