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As part of our ongoing work to catalogue the Bath City Council records, a Record Office volunteer has been working on the Town Clerks' In-Letter Books relating to matters dealt with by the Council acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority. She has made abstracts of the information in the most interesting of the letters in the first 20 volumes, covering the years 1892-1897. The letters deal with issues such as street cleaning, refuse collection, improvement and building works, food quality, hospitals and health related maters. The abstracts are in PDF format.
BC/3/4/6/1 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 1 Jan 1892-17 Oct 1892
BC/3/4/6/2 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 4 Oct 1892-21 Feb 1893
BC/3/4/6/3 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 28 Feb 1893-28 June 1893
BC/3/4/6/4 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 30 Jun 1893-27 Oct 1893
BC/3/4/6/5 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 27 Oct 1893-19 Jan 1894
BC/3/4/6/6 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 20 Jan-27 Apr 1894
BC/3/4/6/7 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book May-Oct 1894
BC/3/4/6/8 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Nov 1894-23 Mar 1895
BC/3/4/6/9 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 23 Mar 1895-Jul 1895
BC/3/4/6/10 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 1 Aug 1895-30 Nov 1895
BC/3/4/6/11 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Dec 1895-1 Apr 1896
BC/3/4/6/12 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 3 Apr 1896- 13 May 1896
BC/3/4/6/13 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Jun-Jul 1896
BC/3/4/6/14 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 1 Aug-21 Sep 1896
BC/3/4/6/15 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Oct-Dec 1896
BC/3/4/6/16 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Jan 1897-24 Feb 1897
BC/3/4/6/17 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 3 Mar 1897-21 Apr 1897
BC/3/4/6/18 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book May-14 Jun 1897
BC/3/4/6/19 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book Jul-Oct 1897
BC/3/4/6/20 Urban Sanitary Authority In-Letter Book 11 Oct-31 Dec 1897
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