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Description: | 6 Jan
Detailed account of first surgical operation in Wolverhampton
13 Jan
Letter about the Horsefair and Crockery Market
Letter against noise at Horsefair market
10 Feb
Mechanics Institute "Revival" meeting
Cricket Club annual dinner
10 Feb, 24 Mar
Using ether at Dispensary
24 Feb
Pig Market moves to Cleveland Road
Article regarding the remodelling of the Mechanics Institute
10 Mar
Letter re siting of Post office
31 Mar
Letter on general survey of need for cemetery & description of enquiry
7 Apr
Athenaeum - account of establishment
21 Apr
Editorial re commencement of water supply
28 Apr and 5 May
Health of Towns Bill - abstract, letter on the desirability of
12 May
Nasmyth's Steam Hammer, Shrubbery Ironworks
26 May
Report on Gas Bill - Company reported as supplying gas too cheaply to the Commissioners "the practical effect of the low charges is to diminish the lighting rates payable by men of fortune, merchants & others at the expense of the gas consumers ? while the wealthier streets are well illuminated, the poorer streets are left without any public lights"
2 Jun
Report of surveyors for Gas Bill
9 Jun
Advertisement for erection of St Matthews Church
30 Jun
Details of proposal to rate owners (Rates Bill)
Resolution from Poor Law Guardians re unsanitary conditions
7 Jul
Baths - meeting re establishment (ref to Culwell)
Dunstall Hall Villa advertisement
14 Jul
Advertisement re baths prospectus
Description of fair
21 Jul
Annual dinner of Licensed Victualler's Association
11-25 Aug and 8 Sep
C P Villiers' involvement with South Lancashire
25 Aug
Cemetery annual report
1 Sep
Report on first year of Water Works Company
8 Sep
Electric Telegraph Co advertisement
Town Commissioners annual accounts
6 Oct
First general meeting of Gas Company to elect directors "four from shareholders of the new company and five from the shareholders of the old"
13 Oct
Letter of J Lewis, Chairman of Town Commissioners -- "No notice was given of the business. Seven Commissioners attended, five were Gas Proprietors with their attorney & made an order for additional lamps to be put up. If not legally disqualified?.. common decency ought to have restrained them"
Letter re gas proprietor commission ordering additional lamps
27 Oct
Advert for subscribers for telegraph
24 Nov
Letter re News Room, Queen Street & Darlington Street (Whig & Tory)
1 Dec
Difference in time (10 minutes) between Wolverhampton & Greenwich (railway time to be Greenwich & other clocks to be same)
8, 29 Dec
Description of sanitary condition of Carribee Island area (Dehane)
15 Dec
Operation using Chloroform
15, 22 and 29 Dec
Corn Exchange Company - article and advertisement re company, proposed sites etc | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Gas supply Public baths Sanitation Health policy | Temporal: | 1847 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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