Transactions of the St. Leonards Commissioners
The first quarterly meeting of the Saint Leonards Commissioners in 1850 was not held until the 25th of March. I will follow my rather usual course of reviewing those meetings first; and this will afford an explanation of some of the business transacted or matters discussed at the meetings of the Town Council. Presiding at this meeting was Captain Davies, and the other commissioners present were Messrs. Alfred and Decimus Burton, James Mann, H. W. Brown and the Rev. G. D. St. Quintin. The following report was received from the committee.
“The Superintending Inspector from the board of health having, in consequence of a petition from the borough, given notice of his intention to come down for the purpose of obtaining evidence as to the sanitary state of the town, and as the Commissioners had, on a previous occasion, expressed their disapprobation of the Health of Town Act being applied to St. Leonards, your committee consider it their duty to obtain the feelings of the inhabitants on the subject by having a petition to the Board of Health drawn up, praying that the Act shall not be applied. This was agreed to by about fifty householders. The clerk subsequently had an interview with the Inspector (Mr. Cresy)[1], who intimated that the Act would be applied to Hastings only, but suggested that certain improvements might be made in the local Act by means of a provisional order of the General Board of Health, to be sanctioned by a public General Act which, if approved, would be noticed in the Inspector’s report. But doubts having occurred as to the possi-
- ↑ Brett's spelling varies, correctly Edward Cresy, F.S.A., C.E., Superintending Inspector for the General Board of Health for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848
