Timeline

Local events	Date	National events
1st Nottingham Waterworks established	1696
Deering described Nottingham as 'garden city'	1751
Zion Hill Waterworks established	c.1790
Nottingham Gas Act	1818
Nottingham New Waterworks Co. established	1824
Nottingham Trent Waterworks Co. established	1826
Cholera Epidemic	1831-32	Cholera Epidemic
	1832	Poor Law Commission
	1833	Municipal Corporations Commission
	1834	Poor Law Amendment Act
	1835	Municipal Reform Act
New Union Workhouse opened	1841
	1842	Chadwick's Report on 'Sanitary Conditions of Labouring Classes'
	1844	Commission on 'Large Towns and Populous Districts'
J.R. Martin's Report on 'The State of Nottingham'	1845
Borough Sanitary Committee appointed	1846
Typhus Epidemic	1847
	1848	Cholera Epidemic Public Health Act
	1869	Commission on Water

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