The Portswood Drainage Questions: Yesterday (Friday) morning an inquiry was held at the Guildhall by Mr. Robert Morgan, the Government Inspector into the state of the drainage of Portswood, in order to see the necessity or otherwise of the district coming under the Public Health Act. There were present, the mayor (Mr. T. P. Payne, Aldermen Furber, Emmanuel, and Bowmen, Rev. F. E. Wigram, Messrs. J. E. Le Feuvre, E.K. Stace, T. A. Skelton, H. J. Buchan, Scovell, Bishop, Hiller, Dodd (etc) … The Inspector said that he attended in pursuance of a petition presented to the Secretary of the Home Department as to the alleged default, and received instructions, which he would read, and afterwards would be willing to hear any person on the subject … (heated discussion on the severity of the problem) … Mr. Hillier spoke against the adoption of the Act, and Mr. Pinsent in its favour. … The inquiry then ended, the Inspector intimating that he would visit the district today (Saturday).
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GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894