The Public Health Act, 1875: And the Law Relating to Public Health, Local Government, and Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities : with Introduction, Table of Statutes, Table of Reference to the Repealed Statutes, Table of Cases, Appendices of Statutes, and Index

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Butterworths, 1876 - Health officers - 694 pages

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Contents

Description of urban districts and urban authorities
6
Vesting of property in local authorities
12
Cleansing sewers
19
Penalty on building house without drains in urban district
25
Application of 27 28 Vict c 114 to works for supply of sewage
31
As to earthclosets
37
Regulations as to Streets and Houses
45
30
51
Incorporation of certain provisions of Waterworks Clauses Acts
57
31
60
Powers of water company for supplying water to local authority
63
Local authority may take proceedings to prevent pollution of streams
69
Power to close cellars in case of two convictions
75
Duty of local authority to inspect district for detection of nuisances
92
Officer of health
94
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97
Penalty for contravention of order of court
98
Costs and expenses of execution of provisions relating to nuisances
104
Interpretation of terms
105
Provision as to ships
110
Power of Local Government Board to make regulations for prevention
134
Penalty for violating or obstructing the execution of regulations
140
Powers of urban authority for lighting their district
161
Report of officer of health on premises
162
Incorporation of provisions of 10 11 Vict c 14 as to markets
167
Power to purchase lands
175
As to medical officer of health
178
Claims under twenty pounds may be referred to court of summary
181
87
186
Meetings c of urban authority not being the council of a borough
199
Inspectors may attend meetings of certain authorities
205
37
207
Assessment c of general district rate
211
Power to proceed where nuisance arises from offensive trade carried
214
Certain acts not required to be done in case of highway rate made
217
Power to borrow on credit of rates
224
Register of mortgages
230
Transfer of mortgages
238
Borrowing powers of joint boards and certain other authorities
244
Demolition of premises
245
Auditor to audit accounts of officers
250
Summary proceedings for recovery of rates
256
Proceedings not to be quashed for want of form
262
Contents
264
Powers of Local Government Board in relation to alteration of areas
270
Preliminary
273
Clause Page 299 Proceedings on complaint to Board of default of local authority
274
Further provision for recovery of expenses
275
Local Government Board may invest rural authority with powers
276
Recovery of principal and interest
277
UNSOUND MEAT
279
Penalty on damaging works c of local authority
280
Meetings and proceedings of joint boards
282
Compensation in certain cases to officers
287
Jurisdiction of port sanitary authority
288
Substitution in other Acts of provisions of this Act for provisions of repealed Acts
289
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290
As to audit of certain accounts
291
PART XI
292
Saving for works and property of certain authorities and for navi gation and water rights c
293
Orders as to costs of inquiries
294
Effect of arbitration Page
295
SCHEDULES
302
Returning officer
311
Declaration to be made by members
317
Rules as to resolutions of owners and ratepayers
326
Charging order on premises
364
Local authority to repair fences
368
Byelaws as to ship carrying petroleum
369
Service of notices
371
Penalty for refusing information
375
13
379
Consumption of smoke
381
Byelaws
391
Sewers vested in local authority
392
THE PUBLIC PARKS SCHOOLS AND MUSEUMS ACT 1871
397
Removal to hospital of infected persons brought by ships
399
PART IV
403
34 Vict c 13
404
All common lodginghouses to be registered and to be kept only
405
Instructions to lockkeepers c
411
15
412
Accounts
415
Debentures
424
Limewashing of houses
426
188
436
Holding of markets c
449
Byelaws to be printed
454
THE TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847
455
Slaughterhouses
461
Fires
468
Bathing
478
Protection of water
484
Supply of water
491
Notice of trusts
499
As to register of nominal securities
505
General rules
510
Funds for loans
517
Supplemental provisions as to loans and securities
526
Temporary provisions and repeal
531
Power to compel paving c of private streets
541
Establishment of the Local Government Board
547
Local boards to put principal Act into execution
549
Reenacted provisions 343
556
Powers of entry for inspector
562
ACT 1875
563
Power to purchase sewers
566
Expenses of executing the Act
571
REGULATIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS
605
URBAN INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES
611
Proposal for appointment
615
Proposal for appointment
621
Preamble
627
199
631
Evidence of byelaws
633
Houses to be purified on certificate of officer of health or of
636
Evidence as to family in proceedings
637
Local Government Board may empower local authority to make
641
207
645
infectious disease
650
Penalty in respect of certain nuisances on premises
657
Appointment of officers of urban authority
659
Exemption from expenses under last section of incumbent
662
Publication and collection of rates
664
Offensive Ditches and Collections of Matter
667
Saving for existing agreements
672
Purchase c of lands
674
512
675
Power
676
Buildings not
683
INDEX 627694
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Page 552 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 562 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 531 - ... deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 566 - Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug, because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug to conceal the inferior quality thereof.
Page 552 - Act passed in the session holden in the twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Acts concerning the Municipal Corporations...
Page 118 - Works mentioned or referred to therein; and the Expenses incurred by them in so doing shall be paid by the Owners in default, according to the Frontage of their respective Premises...
Page 532 - rate " means a rate made during the continuance of this Act, the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes, and which is leviable on the basis of an assessment in respect of the yearly value of property, and includes any sum which, though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other instrument requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or can be ultimately raised out of a rate as before defined...
Page 545 - England, in manner directed by an act passed in the session holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria...
Page 71 - Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit, so foul or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health.
Page 507 - Court that the register may be rectified ; and the Court may either refuse such application, with or without costs, to be paid by the applicant, or it may, if satisfied of the justice of the case, make an order for the rectification of the register, and may direct the company to pay all the costs of such motion, application, or petition, and any damages the party aggrieved may have sustained...

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