The plans were part of an application for sanction to borrow £23,400 to fund 'Works for Main Sewerage'. 

 

Reference is made to a report by Mr Arnold Taylor 23 May 1870 and the Eastern plan is signed by Josiah Forster Fairbank.

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There are two plans related to the Eastern and Western sections of the town. We are grateful to Garry Hooper for his skill and care in photographing these delicate maps. 

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They were part of an application for sanction to borrow £23,400 to fund 'Works for Main Sewerage'. Reference is made to a report by Mr Arnold Taylor 23 May 1870.

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Mike Loftus observes that these sewerage plans were not ideal and/or they were not properly followed when the system was laid – or both. After the 1884 typhoid epidemic, in which over 100 people in the town died, an enquiry identified the failure of the 1870 system as the major cause  of the outbreak.