Minutes

Includes engineer's and analyst's reports on the condition of the River Irwell within the city of Manchester Sept 1891 (pp.32-34); memorial to the Home Secretary asking that the flash point of petrol and illuminating oils be raised to 100°F, Dec 1895 (pp.141-143); memorial to City Council urging purchase of Trafford Park as a recreation area to prevent it being covered with industrial buildings which will 'emit dense smoke and chemical fumes, and greatly increase the existing impurity of the air', June 1896 (pp.156-158); memorial to Home Secretary to schedule carbolic acid as a poison, due to number of suicides and accidental deaths from it, Oct 1896. (pp.162-164); memorial urging inspection of plumbing, June 1897 (p.178); newspaper cutting 're' smoke polluted atmosphere of Manchester and Salford, Nov 1897 (p.184); report on lamp explosions in Manchester and Salford, Feb 1900 (p.225); leaflet in support of proposed hospital for infectious diseases at Carrington, Nov 1900 (p.236); newspaper cutting on overcrowding in Hulme, Dec 1900 (pp237-238); leaflet on the beer-poisoning epidemic, Dec 1900 (p.239); newspaper cuttings on Sanitary Congress in Manchester, Apr 1902 (pp283-296); letter to Parks Committee against proposed sale of piece of land used as a playground in Ancoats, Dec 1902 (pp311-312); petition to Parliament that all food entering the port of Manchester should be inspected by the Port Sanitary Authority, July 1906 (p.377); newspaper cuttings on slums and open spaces in towns, Oct 1906 (pp.386-389).