Sanitation Audit
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1877: It is easy to forget how critical overall sanitation control was - especially in growing communities such as Peterborough - in the nineteenth century, and the responsibilities of the Poor Law Unions. This notice in the Stamford Mercury reminds us:
"LINCOLNSHIRE AND RUTLANDSHIRE AUDIT DISTRICT: PETERBOROUGH UNION and the RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT in the said union. As Auditor of the above-named Audit District, I hereby give notice that I have appointed the Audit of the Accounts of the PETERBOROUGH UNION, and the RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT in the said Union, and of the several Parishes and Contributory Places contained in the said Union and District, or in the said Union solely, for the Half-year ended Lady-day 1877, to commence on TUESDAY the 5th day of JUNE next , at 9.30 o'clock in the Forenoon, at the UNION BOARD-ROOM in PETERBOROUGH, when and where all persons who by law are bound to account at such Audit are required to attend, and to submit all Books, Documents, Bills and Vouchers containing or related to the accounts or to moneys assessed for and applicable to the relief of the poor or to sanitary purposes. Dated the 19th day of May 1877. (Signed) ROBERT AZLACK WHITE, District Auditor."
Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.