The first recorded meeting of The Haworth Local Board of Health was on 1st December 1851.
Local Boards of Health were set up in England and Wales from 1848 to 1894. There were many diseases prevalent at the time caused by epidemics such as cholera. Boards of Health were given power to supply clean water, improving sewers and streets, and regulating premises such as slaughterhouses.
It is due to the hard work by Patrick Bronte who petitioned for a Local Board of Health in the area that was granted in 1851. Haworth Local Board of Health held its last meeting on 28th December 1894.
haworth-village/history/urban-council
Local Boards of Health were set up in England and Wales from 1848 to 1894. There were many diseases prevalent at the time caused by epidemics such as cholera. Boards of Health were given power to supply clean water, improving sewers and streets, and regulating premises such as slaughterhouses.
haworth-village/history/urban-council
It is due to the hard work by Patrick Bronte who petitioned for a Local Board of Health in the area that was granted in 1851.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenOnce one looks into it, it's astonishing how much civic work this man did and how he fought for decades to get the village clean water .... establishing a Board of Health was perhaps a way around the reluctant local mill and land owners who had refused for years to help pay for clean wells. Clever, Papa
Haworth Local Board of Health held its last meeting on 28th December 1894.
With all the budget cuts these days, they may need it to meet again .