An Act to empower the Commissioners of Sewers to expend on House Drainage a certain Sum out of the Monies borrowed by them on the Security of the Rates, and also to give to the said Commissioners certain other Powers for the same Purpose
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...