The Metropolitan Sewers Act 1855
WHEREAS it is of urgent Importance to the Health of the Metropolis that Powers of House Cleansing, Drainage, and Improvement should be forthwith actively exercised by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, for the Purpose of executing in Houses which may appear exposed to the Ravages of Zymotic Diseases such palliative and preventive Works, either temporary or permanent, as the Time admits of, to obviate the Outbreak and Spread of such Epidemic Disorders: Be it therefore enacted by the Que...