Public Health Act. Returns of the number of towns to which the Public Health Act, 1848, was applied, between 18 April and 30 June 1856; of the number of applications for the sanction of the General Board of Health to the mortgage of rates for permanent works, and amount of loans sanctioned between 1 January 1854 and 30 June 1856; and number of reports by superintending inspectors to General Board of Health, between 1 January 1854 and 30 June 1856, on examination of plans and works of drainage or water supply (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 231, of sess. 1856) [electronic resource].