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Preliminary Inquiry.
Upon Petition of a certain Proportion of Householders, &c., or when the Deaths in any City, &c. appear upon the Registrar General’s Returns to be above a certain Proportion, Superintending Inspector to make local Inquiry.
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VIII. And be it enacted, That from Time to Time after the passing of this Act, upon the Petition of not less than One Tenth of the Inhabitants rated to the Relief of the Poor of any City, Town, Borough, Parish, or Place having a known or defined Boundary, not being less than Thirty in the whole, or where it shall appear or can be ascertained from the last Return for the Time being made up by the Registrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths from the Deaths registered in a Period of not less than Seven Years that the Number of Deaths annually in any City, Town, Borough, Parish, or Place during the Period in respect whereof such Return shall have been made have on an Average exceeded the Proportion of Twenty-three to a thousand of the Population of such City, Town, Borough, Parish or Place, the General Board of Health may, if and when they shall think fit, direct a Superintending Inspector to visit such City, Town, Borough, Parish, or Place, and to make public Inquiry, and to examine Witnesses, as to the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, the State of the Burial Grounds, the Number sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants, and as to any Local Acts of Parliament in force within such City, Town, Borough, Parish, or Place for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regulating, supplying with Water, or improving the same, or having relation to the Purposes of this Act, also as to the natural Drainage Areas, and the existing municipal, parochial, or other local Boundaries, and the Boundaries which may be most advantageously adopted for the Purposes of this Act, and as to any other Matters in respect whereof the said Board may desire to be informed, for the Purpose of enabling them to judge of the Propriety of reporting to Her Majesty, or making a Provisional Order, as heroin-after mentioned.
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