Law Relating to Public Health and Local Government

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Butterworth's, 1872 - Local government - 844 pages

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Contents

The Local Authority
494
Committees of Local Authority
497
Appointment of Inspectors of Nuisances
498
Expenses of Local Authority
500
What are deemed Nuisances
502
Authority to inspect Premises and order Works to be done
507
Authority to Nuisance Authorities in Metropolis to provide Hospitals for the Sick
513
CHAPTER II
519
Order for Abatement of Nuisances
526
3 Costs of Local Authority
530
Disinfecting Premises
533
Carriages for conveyance of Infected Persons
534
Removal of Sick to Hospitals
535
Ditches Drains
536
New Sewers
539
Construction of Sewers and Provision of Wells and Pumps by Church wardens and Overseers in Populous Parishes
548
Fouling Water with Gaswashings
550
Exposing for Sale Meat unfit for food
551
Noxious Trades and Manufactures
553
Removal of Manure and Refuse
556
Overcrowded Dwellinghouses
557
Cellar Dwellings
558
CHAPTER IV
560
Penalties
562
Protection of Local Authority and their Officers
566
PART V
567
Committees of Sewer Authorities
569
Rates in Drainage Districts
570
Special Drainage Districts
571
Union of Sewage Districts
573
Powers of Sewer Authorities
574
Distribution of Sewage
578
An Act for vesting in the Privy Council certain Powers for the Protection
665
An Act to amend and make perpetual The Public Health Act 1858
702
An Act to amend the Public Health Act 1848 and to make further pro
715
Vict c 24 1865
721
An Act for facilitating the Distribution of Sewage Matter over Land
735
An Act to amend certain provisions in the Sanitary and Sewage Utilization
745
760
781
Cleansing Streets removing Filth
808

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Page 743 - 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 626 - ... place and keep in repair fences and posts for the safety of foot passengers...
Page 599 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 643 - ... on account of any defect or want of form in the summons, conviction, warrant of distress, or other proceeding relating thereto, nor shall such party be deemed a trespasser
Page 647 - And be it enacted, that full compensation shall be made out of the general or special district rates to be levied under this Act (z), to all persons sustaining any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers of this Act...
Page 598 - ... (that is to say) — Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number : Words importing the masculine gender shall include females : The word
Page 235 - By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of the water flowing past his land ; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes and for his cattle, and this without regard to the effect which such use may have, in case of a deficiency, upon proprietors lower down the stream.
Page 125 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 570 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present ; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 235 - Subject to this condition, he may dam up the stream for the purpose of a mill, or divert the water for the purpose of irrigation. But he has no right to interrupt the regular flow of the stream, if he thereby interferes with the lawful use of the water by other proprietors, and inflicts upon them a sensible injury.

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