First and Second Reports of the Committee Appointed to Consider Any Bills That May Be Brought Into Parliament for the Improvement of the Health of Towns, and the Applicability of such Measures to Scotland (1848–9)

The Committee have examined particularly the ‘Bill for improving the Health of Towns in England,’ ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13th May 1847, and the ‘Towns Improvement Clauses Act,’ dated 21st June 1847; and they have considered likewise the Draft of the ‘Edinburgh Police Consolidation and Sanitary Improvement ‘Bill,’ and the proposed ‘Edinburgh Police Act,’ both of date 1848, in so far as they profess to be adapted to the sanitary improvement of this City. The Committee highly approve, on the whole, of the provisions of the Acts for all these purposes, and of the duties to be imposed on the Commissioners, and the powers granted to them, for carrying all these objects into effect; and they have no doubt that in all the larger towns in Scotland similar regulations are much wanted, and would be very beneficial.