General Board of Health. Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 May 1851;--for, "accounts of the total amount of money received annually by the General Board of Health since the establishment of the board, and also of the payments made during each year, distinguishing the money paid in respect to the execution of the Public Health Act; setting forth, the expenses of each of the preliminary inquiries for the application of the Public Health Act, the expenses of the printing and publication of the reports and statements sanctioned by the board in relation thereto, and all the expenses incurred; distinguishing the towns where provisional orders have been confirmed, where orders in council have been issued, and where provisional orders have not been confirmed, and where orders in council have not been issued; and also the average expenses thereof, and the time occupied, and the total number of copies of reports circulated or sold locally, so far as the same may be ascertained:" "of any money received or due, or owing by the local boards in respect of provisional orders, or orders in council, made under the Public Health Act, and of any balance or payments due or owing by or to the board:" "return of the names of any places to which inquiries have been directed with a view to the the application of the Public Health Act, without any local application therefor:" "account of the money paid in respect to the preparation or execution of the Metropolitan Interments Act:" "return of the expenses incurred by the General Board of Health in conducting the investigation into the nature and extent of the supplies of water to the metropolis, and into the means for their improvement:" "account of the money expended in carrying out the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, and the measures in relation to the late epidemic cholera:" "returns of the number and names of the places from which applications have been made to the General Board of Health for assistance under the Diseases Prevention Act as well as under the Public Health Act:" "of the number of board meetings of the General Board of Health; the number and subjects of deputations; the number of witnesses examined, and the amount of correspondence and other business transacted by the General Board of Health in relation to the several acts on chief subjects, during each year since its appointment:" "of the names, professions, or occupations of the persons permanently or temporarily engaged as officers or assistants in the execution of the Public Health Act, of the Diseases Prevention Act, and of the Metropolitan Interments Act; and the amounts of any salaries, rates of pay, or allowances paid in respect thereto, up to the end of 1850; also, a statement of any paid or unpaid public service in which any such person may be now engaged, or may have been engaged up to the end of 1850:" "of the expenses of each preliminary inquiry made under the authority of the act 11 & 12 Vict. c. 129, upon applications for Improvement Acts, setting forth the title or object of the bill; the expenses of the reports upon the preliminary inquiries, and of the numbers of them sold or known to be circulated within the districts for which the improved works might be intended, and the average expenses of each such inquiry:" "and, of the expenses incurred in respect of each private bill for Towns Improvement Acts, for which application has been made to the House of Commons during the [electronic resource].