| Description | Handwritten Prescot Urban District Council minute book with index. Inserts include: public health poster regarding an inquiry into Prescot U.D.C's application to borrow £2,300 for purposes of sewage disposal (1910); handwritten letter, dated 22 April 1911, from W. Beesley requesting approval for his plans to erect premises in High Street, Prescot; typescript resolutions following a report by the Medical Officer of Health (1911); newspaper cutting advertising for the appointment of an Assistant Overseer and Collector of Poor Rate (1911); newspaper cutting advertising an examination to take place at Prescot Grammar School, 1 March 1913, for a free scholarship for a boy of 11-12 years old; and a printed notice raising awareness of an outbreak of typhoid fever in Prescot and advising on precautions (Sep 1913). Also includes minutes for extraordinary meetings, other committees and sub-committees during this period. |