Report to the General Board of Health on a Preliminary Enquiry into the sewerage, drainage, supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the Borough of Ipswich... by IPSWICH. RANGER, William

Pp.47; title lightly soiled with neat marginal repair (no loss); contemporary half maroon roan, marbled sides, upper hinge cracked but secure; ex libris Harry Wilton. Public Health Act (11 & 12 Vict. Cap.63) a most important document on the history & development of the town. The detailed statistical analysis includes a table of 260 street names, parish, no. of houses, 'deaths from zymotic [infectious] diseases & other causes'. Wherstead Road was decidedly unhealthy at the time... SB 5863.