Preliminary inquiry, costs of, 58, 250.

Precautions to be taken during repair of buildings and sewers,

478.

Premises, defined, 43.

Preservation of water rights, 206, 325.

Prevention of disease, 223; Act relating to, 370; of fires, 267; of
smoke, 480.

Private improvement expenses, 154; for covering drains and
constructing waterclosets, 109, 112; for removing nuisances,
115; paving private streets, 127; extension of time for payment,
210; rentcharge in respect of, 306; charge on premises, 315;
deduction of, from rent, 155; redemption of, 156; appeals to
Secretary of State in respect of, 178, 318; recovery of, 315.
Private injuries, 126.

Private street, paving of, 127.

Privies, cleansing of, 113; penalty for allowing to overflow, 115;
examination of, by surveyor, 111; for new houses, 107, 110,
440; byelaws as to, 108, 111, 113.

Privy council, powers of, for prevention of diseases, 223, 370, 373;
as to vaccination, 224; proof of their orders, 51; to approve of
medical aid and medicines at hospitals, 444.

Proceedings under Public Health Act continued, 231; under Nui-
sance Removal Act, 378, 387, 428; of Local Boards, 86; before
justices, 186; appearance in, 437.

Process against officers not duly accounting, 93.

Processions, regulations as to, 500.

Production of books, &c., power to compel, 179, 180; to chairman
conducting election of members of Local Board, 77.

Profit, office of, 69.

Prohibition of use of buildings unfit for habitations, 268, 452.

Projections to houses, removal of, 474.

Property assessable to rates, 150, 297; of Local Board how to be
described in actions, 196.

Proprietor, meaning of the term, 70, 131.

Proprietor of waterworks when not to vacate office as member of
Local Board, 71; of streets, 281.

Prosecutions for nuisances, 387.

Prospective rates, 151.

Prostitution in streets, 504; harbouring prostitutes, 507.

Provisional orders in council for the creation of Local Boards of
Health, 55; of Secretary of State, 330, 334; as to purchase of
lands, 330, 437; confirmation of, 57, 334, 336.

Provisions, corrupt, 119, 384.

Proxy, vote by, at elections, 74, 75, 80.

Public bathing on sea-shore, regulations as to, 284; byelaws as to,
516.

Public baths and wash-houses, supply of water to, 137, 354; estab-
lishment by Local Board, 288; Acts relating to, 346.

Public cisterns, for water, 137, 481.

Public clocks, 485.

Public ditches, pools and ponds, cleansing of, 106, 114.

Public fast, day for performance of acts falling on day appointed
for, 78.

Public Health Act, limits of, 42; how to be cited, 50; Local Govern-
ment Act to be deemed part of, 228; formation of districts
under, 52.

Public houses, closing of, 530.

Public libraries, 134; providing of land for, 539.

Public lodging house defined, 369.

Public museums, 134, 534; providing of land for, 539.

Public necessaries, 114.

Public pleasure-ground, 133; grant of land for, 539.

Public resort, places of, conduct in, 506.

Public Works Loan Board, loans by, 169, 352, 412, 419, 446, 535.
Publication of Orders in Council, 203; of notice of adoption of Act,
249; of notice of election of members of Local Board, 77; of
rates, 164, 297; of annual report of the board, 332,

Pumps, public, 137; when they may be provided by churchwardens
and overseers, 106; vested in nuisance removal authority, 404,
425.

Purchase of sewers, 98, 410; of property for improving streets, 133;
of slopes or embankments of canals, &c., 279; of premises for
new streets, 270; of waterworks, 134, 294; of land, 144, 270,
327, 354, 418.

Purification of houses, 116.

Qualification of members of Local Boards of Health, 60, 65, 252;
of officers, 89, 95.

Quarantine Act, vessels within, 438; order of Council relating to,
xxiv.

Quarter sessions, interpreted, 45; appeal to, 191; their order as to
expenses of local authority, 456.

Quashing for want of form prohibited, 193.

Quo warranto information against members, 82.

Quorum of Local Boards, 87.

Rackrent interpreted, 44.

Ragged schools exempt from rate, 277.

Railway, construction of bridges over, 279; rating of, 299.

Rate to confer qualification described, 73; for expenses of sewer
authority, 419.

Rate-books, power to compel production of, 179; to chairman con-
ducting election of members of Local Boards, 177; for purpose of
making rates, 301.

Ratepayer interpreted, 359.

Ratepayers, election of members of Local Boards by, 71.

Rate, making of, 148, 149, 212; publication of, 164; invalid, 167;

appeal against, 192.

Rebuilding houses, regulations as to, 268.

Receiver of rates, appointment of, 172, 231.

Reception-houses for the dead, 142, 430.

Recovery of rates, 164; of demands of Local Board, 130, 188, 315;

of disallowances on certificate of auditor, 311; of damages,
186, 188; of expenses charged on premises, 315, 456; of costs
awarded by Secretary of State, 339.

Recreation grounds, providing land for, 539.

Redemption of private improvement expenses,
Reduction of rate for poverty, 159.

156.

Refreshment room, definition of, 531; license of, 506; assembling of
persons in, 507.

Refusal of member of Local Board to act, 68; of chairman to con-
duct election, 76; of person nominated to serve, 80.

Refuse, removal of, from houses, 113, 265, 441; sale of, 265.
Registration of rentcharges in respect of private improvement ex-
penses, 307; of mortgages, 170; of transfers of mortgages, 171;
and rentcharges, 307.

Registry of common lodging-houses, 121, 364, 367, 369; of slaughter
houses, 117.

Relieving officer may give notice of nuisance, 376; to bury infected
dead bodies, 430.

Remission of rate on the ground of poverty, 159.

Removal of sewage matter, 102; of filth from streets, 113, 265; from

houses, 113; of obstructions from streets, 474; of toll-gates,
280; of the sick, 368, 406, 429; of nuisances, Act for, 374;
proceedings under, 378.

Renewal of loans, 169.

Rent, deduction of private improvement expenses from, 155.
Rentcharge in respect of private improvement expenses, 306; în
respect of works and dangerous buildings, 456; form of,
342.

Rents in market, 293, 493.

Repair of sewers, 99; of streets, 126; of highways, 270; of turn.

pike roads, 280; precautions to be taken during, 478; of dan-
gerous places near to streets, 479.

Repayment of costs of preliminary inquiry, 58; of adoption of Local
Government Act, 250.

Repealed provisions of Public Health Act, proceedings under, 231.
Report of Secretary of State to Parliament, 337; of Local Boards,

332; of lodging house keepers, 376.

Reservoirs, public, 137, 425; not to be interfered with, 320, 322,
325.

Residence of members of Local Boards, 65; of voters, 78.

Resignation of member of Local Boards, 64.

Resolutions for adoption of Local Government Act, 238.

Retrospective rating, 151, 297.

Returning officer, 76; his conduct, 82; his charges, 84.

Return of election, how to be questioned, 82.

Returns as to highways, xxi., 274; as to rates, xxi., 295.

Riotous conduct in streets, 505.

Rivers, discharge of sewers into, 99; pollution of, 208, 262, 320,

326, 411,

River, rights preserved, 320,

Roads, agreement for making, 278.

Rubbish, boxes for temporary deposit of, 113, 263.

Ruinous buildings, 476.

Salaries of officers, 90, 338.

Sale of lands to Local Board by member, not to vacate office, 256 ;
of sewers, 98; of sewage, 113, 261, 412; of lands not required,
144, 536; of materials of ruinous or dangerous buildings, 478.
Sale of waterworks, 294.

Sanitary Act, 421; purposes, loans for, 445.

Sanitary regulations, commissioners for, 240; inspector, appoint-
ment of, 37.

Saving of rights, 325.

Scavenging powers of Local Board, 263.

Scale of voting at elections, 71.

Schools of science and art, 134, 534; providing land for, 539.

Scrutiny of votes at election of members, 82.

Sea-shore, boundary by, 46; public bathing on, 516.

Sea walls, liabilities as to, preserved, 177.

Sea defences, not to be interfered with, 319.

Seal of Local Board, 88; to rate when required, 212.

Secretary for War, works vested in, not to be interfered with, 319.

Secretary of State, his sanction substituted for that of the General

Board of health, 231, 304; how to be given, 259; to make annual
report to parliament, 337; to direct inquiries, 334, 338; to ap-
point officers, 338; his orders binding, 242, 246, 248, 338; may
make order as to costs of appeal to him, 334; to be made a
rule of court, 339; to appoint summoning officer, 243; to
settle boundaries, 242; to sanction division into wards, 253;
order of as to smoke, 286; to approve of tolls, 294; to con-
sent to mortgate of rates, 304; to extension of time for re-
payment, 337; provisional orders of, 334; as to purchase of
lands, 330; memorial to, in respect of private improvement ex-
penses, 318; in respect to appeals against adoption of Local
Government Act, 243; to approve of byelaws, 174; to enable
nuisance authority to regulate lodging houses, 433; his proceed-
ings on default of local authorities, 437; recovery of his ex-
penses, 442; his certificates as to expenses, 446; loan to him,
446; his certificate as to loan, 446; power to change surveyor,
447; his order as to expenses of inquiries, 447; service of his
order and demand, 449; may direct proceedings where houses
dangerous to health, 455; his powers transferred to the Local
Government Board, xviii.

Security of officers, 92; for performance of contract, 147.

Seizure of food unfit for man, 119, 384, 484, 490.

Selected members of Local Boards of Health, 59; continuance in
office, 60.

Separate assessment, 153.

Separation of part of parish from district, 333.

Service of notices and demand, 113, 297, 315, 387, 444, 449, 455; on
Local Board, 213; of notice on owner and occupier, 213.

Sewer interpreted, 48; distinguished from drain, 97.

Sewage, removal of, 113; sale and disposal of, 261, 412, 415;
places for deposit of, 113, 261, 415; overflow of, 115; of houses,
104, 110; of new streets, 267.

Several offenders, proccedings against, 388.

Sewage Utilization Act, 409.

Sewer authority, constitution of, 409; powers of, 264, 410, 441; dis-
trict of, 410; fund to be charged with their expenses, 410, 413;
may borrow money, 410; take lands, 411; compensate for
damage, 411; prevent pollution of streams, 411; contract for
sale of sewage, 412; rate for their expenses, 419; empowered to
form committees, 421; may provide hospitals, 434; proceed-
ings on their default, 437; when different from nuisance autho-
rity, 441.

Sewers, powers of Local Boards as to, 96, 260; of sewer autho-
rity, 410; vested in Local Board, 97; use of, 102, 103; beyond