The Public Health Act, 1875, (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55) ; The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75) ; The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, (41 & 42 Vict., cap. 25) ; and the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, (42 & 43 Vict., cap. 31) / preceded by a complete index to the same by Frederic Stratton.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1880
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Credit: The Public Health Act, 1875, (38 & 39 Vict., cap. 55) ; The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, (39 & 40 Vict., cap. 75) ; The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, (41 & 42 Vict., cap. 25) ; and the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, (42 & 43 Vict., cap. 31) / preceded by a complete index to the same by Frederic Stratton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    41 & 42 Vict., Chapter 25. An Act to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as relates to the supply of Water. [4th July, 1878.] Whereas it is expedient to amend the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55): Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Short Title, and Construction. 1. This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, and shall be construed as one with the Public Health Act, 1875. Commencement of Act. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. Duty of Rural Authority to provide or require provision of sufficient Water Supply, and Procedure for Enforcing such Requirement. 3. It shall be the duty of every rural sanitary authority, regard being had to the provisions in this Act contained, to see that every occupied dwelling-house within their district has within a reasonable distance an available supply of wholesome water sufficient for the consumption and use for domestic purposes of the inmates of the house. Where it appears to a rural sanitary authority, on the report of their inspector of nuisances, or their medical officer of health, that any occupied dwelling-house within their district has not such supply within a reasonable distance, and the authority are of opinion that such supply can be provided at a reasonable cost not exceeding a capital sum the interest on which at the rate of five per centum per annum would amount to twopence per week, or at such other cost not exceeding a capital sum the interest on which at the rate of five per centum per annum would amount to threepence per week, as the Local Government Board may on the application of the local authority determine under all the circumstances of the case to be reasonable,