Clothing of sick persons in common lodging-house, disinfection or destruc-
tion of, 270; place for disinfection of, 530; transmission of, 592;
selling when infected, 592

Coach-house, part of curtilage of house, 156

Cockermouth provisional orders, 761, 769
Cockfighting, prohibition as to places for, 344
Collection of rates, 394

Collection of voting-papers, 47; agent of candidate may accompany, 51
Collectors, appointment of, 63

Combination of sewer authorities, 574

Commissioners of Public Works, loans by, 427

of Sewers, works under, when not to be interfered with

by Local Boards, 112

of Sewers for drainage of land, 116, 117; form of warrant
for appointment of, 117

of Improvement, when local authority, 494
under a local Act, qualification for, 32

Committee of Local Boards, 62

of local authority, appointment of, 497

Committees under Diseases Prevention Act, 583

of sewer authorities, 565; their powers, 565; their chairman,
565; their meetings, 565; quorum, 565; questions before, how to be
determined, 566; vacancies in, not to invalidate proceedings, 566;
alteration of number of members of, 566; their obligations, 566
Common, who should be proceeded against for nuisance on, 517
Common informers cannot sue without consent of Attorney-General, 35,
470; time within which actions must be brought by, 66

law liability as to burial, 356

-, indictment at, for nuisance, 551

lodging-houses, local authority, 496; notice of nuisance existing
in, 508; over-crowding, 554

of, 266

powers of Local Boards as to, 263; definition

regulations for, 263, 269

Common Lodging-Houses Act, execution of, by Local Boards, 267; in
Oxford and Cambridge, 267; expenses of, 267; notice to be given to
keepers of houses under, 268; form of notice, 268; register of, 268;
regulations respecting houses, 269; penalties for offences against, 269;
keepers of, to give notice of fever, etc., therein, 269; removal of sick
persons from, 269; inspection of, 270; reports from keepers of, as to
beggars and vagrants, 270; cleansing, 270; supply of water to, 270;
complaints as to nuisances in, proceedings in such case, 271; penalty
for offences against Act, 271; evidence in case of over-crowding, 271;
conviction for third offence, 271; recovery of penalties, 272; general
powers of local authority as to, 272; penalty for harbouring thieves in,
273; penalty for allowing deposit of stolen goods in, 273; definition of
landlord under Dublin Improvement Act, 269

Commons near the metropolis, return as to, 193; management of, 196;
definition of, 196

Companies Clauses Act, borrowing powers incorporated with Baths and
Wash-Houses Act, 256

Compensation for carrying sewers through lands, 100; disputes as to
amount of, to be settled by arbitration, 100; for injury caused by works,
101, 103, 104; for injury by raising or lowering levels of streets, 165,
220; in respect of houses projecting beyond line of streets, 185, 218;
for damage by Local Board, 453, 454; for damage occasioned by acts
of public bodies, 454; for damage occasioned by sewer authority, 573
for bedding or clothing of sick in common lodging-houses,
when destroyed, 270

for damages in respect of ditches, etc., 532

Complaint to justices by inhabitants as to existence of a nuisance, 524
before a justice as to existence of nuisances, 515; in the case
of joint offenders, 557

to Local Government Board when default is made in enforcing
Local Government Act, 485; of Nuisances Removal Acts, 496, 497;
of Sewage Utilization Act, where default is made by Local Board in
water supply, 231

Composition with creditors disqualifies from acting as a member of a
town council, 34

Compounding for penalties under contracts, 448

Compulsory drainage into sewers, 536

Computation of time in regard to serving grounds of appeal, 559; for
service of notices by post, 556

Conditions and specification of sewerage works, 125; of works of paving, 184
Conduct of arbitrators, 464

Conduits for gratuitous supply of water, 246

Confirmation of provisional order of Local Government Board, 70; of bye-
laws, 481

Consecrated ground, application of, to secular purposes, 359

Consent of General Board of Health dispensed with, 2; when to be given
by Local Government Board, 3; of Attorney-General, to action for
penalties, 35, 470

Consents of Local Boards, how to be signified, 385, 485

Consequential nuisance, 516

Conservators of the river Thames, to preserve flow and purity of water
down to metropolis, 139; list of notices served by, 142, 146

Conservatory, not a building, 188

Constable, notice of nuisance by, 508; entry upon premises by, 525
refusing to make distress, penalty, 398

Constables, appointment of, as inspectors of nuisances, 499

jurisdiction of, under Common Lodging-Houses Acts, 271, 272
not to interfere at elections, 30

Constituting part of parish a special drainage district, 569
Constitution of Boards of Health, 26

of Local Government Boards, 28

of local authority, 494

of special drainage district by sewer authority, appeal against,

568

Construction of reservoirs, mode of, 82

of terms in Public Health Act, 488; in Local Government
Act, 2; of Sewage Utilization Act, 563

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of sewer by owner through misapprehension of liability, 97;

of new streets, 220; of waterworks, 231

of tramways, regulation of Board of Trade as to, 213
Contagious diseases, prevention of, 579; defined, 579; in common
lodging-houses, notice of, to be given by keepers, 269; carriages for
conveyance of persons infected with, 530; penalty on persons suffering
from, entering public conveyances, 531
Continuance in office of Local Boards, 58

Contract, determination of, on decision of architect, 461

for sewerage works, form of, 120

Contracts under repealed provisions of Public Health Act, 3; persons
concerned in, disqualified as members of Local Boards, 30, 33; what
is being concerned in, 33; penalty on officers interested in, 66; for
sale of sewage, 136; for storing, etc., sewage, 136; for lighting streets,
191; for water supply, 231, 247; of Local Boards, how to be entered
into, 448

production of, to auditor, 423

under Public Baths and Wash-Houses Act, 257; for erection of
dwelling-houses for labouring classes, 282; for supply of sewage by
sewer authorities, 574

with corporations, 450

ultrà vires, 451, 477

of Local Board must be under seal, 450

Contributions in the case of joint owners or occupiers, 557

by sewer authority to works under contract relating to
supply of sewage, 136

Conveyance of sick, carriages for, 585

of infected persons, carriages for, 530; of sick to hospitals,
531; from ships or boats, 531; in public carriages of persons labouring
under infectious or contagious diseases, 531

Conviction for third offence against Common Lodging-Houses Act, 271;
with regard to occupation of cellar dwellings, how when two have
occurred within three months, 228

for erecting house contrary to regulations of Local Board, 226

for treason-felony will vacate any public office, 63

form of it, 480

Copies of bye-laws to be given to ratepayers on application, 481
of orders, etc., of local authority, to be received in evidence, 556
Copper works, nuisance arising from, how restrained, 551
Corn, entry upon premises to inspect, 509, 547

Coroner, removal of dead bodies by order of, to place provided for post-
mortem examinations, 532

Corporate district, what, 26

borough, definition of, 569, 345

Corporation, Local Board a, 486

aggregate, how to vote at elections, 41

Corpses, houses for the reception of, 356

Costs of appeals to Local Government Board, 5; payment of, may be
enforced by mandamus, 5; costs of legal and parliamentary proceed-
ings, 374

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of mandamus, application for, must be made within two terms of the
obeying of such writ, 379

an award for, generally, without ascertaining the amount is good, 463
of appeals under Nuisances Removal Acts, 561; of nuisance
authority, mandamus to pay, 501; when nuisance authority may
require payment of, from owner or occupier, 526; of petition for pay-
ment of money out of Court, 437

may be awarded by select committee on bills confirming provisional
orders, 70

of provisional orders, 71; repayment of, 436

of preliminary inquiry, 11; of adoption of Local Government Act,
13, 24

of inquiries, power of Local Government Board to order payment of,
5, 92

of levying arrears of rate, 398; recovery of, 466

of repair of highways, how to be defrayed, 200

incurred by local authority, how to be defrayed, 500; how recovered,
526; division of, 528; of frivolous complaints, 529; of making sewers,
assessment to defray, 535; in the case of joint offenders, 557; in
appeals to Quarter Sessions, 561

County Court, recovery of expenses in, 147, 153, 172; recovery of rates
in, 397

Courts, proceedings for recovery of demands by Local Boards in, 172
Court, payment of moneys into, 477

--, meaning of, 293

Courts of justice, decrees of, not to be affected by repeal of certain pro-

visions of Public Health Act, 4

Coventry provisional orders, 752, 756

Covering drains, etc., 147

Cowes, East, provisional order, 757

West, provisional orders, 755, 759

Cowley provisional order, 762; election of members of Oxford Local
Board for parish of, 56; overseers of, to produce rate books, 57;

penalty for default, 57

Cowpen provisional order, 768

Crompton provisional order, 771

Crowded dwelling-houses, proceedings in such case, 553

Croydon provisional orders, 752, 758, 770

-, sewage irrigation works at, 128

Cruelty to animals, 344

Cul de sac, liability of owner to pave adjoining street although separated
by wall, 175

Culvert to reservoir, construction of, 83

Curtilage of house, definition of, 94; what is within, 156

Damage, definition of, 453

Damage for injury to lands in constructing sewers, 100; by raising or
lowering levels of streets, 165, 220; in respect of houses projecting
beyond line of streets, 185, 218; recovery of, 466; by Local Board,
compensation for, 453, 456

compensation for, in respect of ditches, etc., 532

caused by overflow of sewer, 106

occasioned by acts of public bodies, compensation for, 457; occa
sioned by sewer authority, compensation for, 573; to bridges by
locomotives, 211

retrospective rate to satisfy, 104

Damaging wells, etc., penalty, 546

works or property of Local Board, penalty, 487; of nuisance
authority, 543; of sewer authority, 573

Dangerous buildings, 228; how to be taken down, 230
places near streets, repair of, 230

Darlington provisional order, 753

Dartford provisional order, 752

Dartmouth provisional orders, 756, 763

Dawlish provisional order, 773

Days, number of, how to be reckoned, 42

Dead bodies, nuisance authority may provide place for reception of, 531;
during post-mortem examinations, 532; burial of, by relieving officer,
532

burial of, 356; houses for the reception of, 356; issue of regulations
by Privy Council for interment of, 580

Death of arbitrator, mode of proceeding in such case, 461

Debts, rate for payment of, 380, 381

on special district rates, 400

Decision of arbitrator binding both as to law and facts, 464
Declaration to be made by members of Local Boards before acting, 31;,
when falsely made, a misdemeanour, 31; penalty for acting without
having made, 34; of arbitrators, 464

as to accounts under audit, 444

of qualifications, not required from members of Oxford

University, 32

Decrees of Court of Chancery not affected by repeal of certain provisions
of Public Health Act, 4

Deeds, exemption of, from stamp duty, 437

production of, to auditor, 423

Defacing notice boards, etc., 487

voting-paper, penalty for, 47

Default of Local Board to provide sewers, mode of proceeding, 91; in
enforcing Local Government Act, complaint of, to Local Government
Board, 485; in supplying water, complaint of Local Government
Board in such case, 231

Defaulting authority, power of Local Government Board to appoint a
person to perform the duty of, 91; proceedings of a Secretary of State
to enforce order made upon, 91; power of Local Government Board to
change the person appointed, 485