Annual report of the Department of Public Health, Province of Alberta.

  • Alberta. Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1944]
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Credit: Annual report of the Department of Public Health, Province of Alberta. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    system. Subsection (4) prohibits a waterworks superintendent from extending a waterworks system without the written authority of his employers, and subsection (5) imposes penalties for breach of section 10. Section 6 of the amending Act strikes out sections 12 and 13 and substitutes therefor nine new sections. The new section 12 by subsection (1) gives the supervision of all springs, wells, etc., used as the source of a public water supply, etc., in so far as the purity of water is concerned to the Provincial Board. Subsection (2) authorizes the Board to inquire into and determine complaints made by riparian owners as to pollution of water. When the Board recommends the removal or treatment of the polluting material, the riparian owner or the Minister may apply to a judge for an order in accordance with the recommend¬ ation of the Board. The new section 13 empowers the Provincial Board to prescribe an area surrounding and including a reservoir of water intended for human consumption to which no live stock shall be allowed access and within which no sewage, etc., may be deposited. Subsection (2) prescribes penalties for breaches of subsection (1). Subsection (3) prescribes a penalty for bathing or swimming in the reservoir. The new section 13a requires a water company or municipality or any person distributing water to make returns when required by the Board, and prescribes a penalty for failing to do so. The new section 13b prohibits the construction of a sewerage project without a certificate from the Board, and prescribes the material which must accompany the application for a certificate and defines the powers and duties of the Board as to investigation of the sanitary requirements and the imposition of conditions as to the project or the disposal of sewage. The new section 13c empowers the Board to require alterations or additions to a waterworks or sewerage system where such are considered necessary to guard against injury or dangers to the public health. The new section 13d authorizes the Board to require returns from any person responsible for the operation of a sewerage project. The new section 13e prohibits a municipality passing a by-law for raising money for the purpose of constructing or altering a waterworks system or sewerage project until the by-law has been approved by the Provincial Board. The new section 13f authorizes the Board when of opinion that any of the works mentioned in the section are necessary in the interest of the public health in a municipality (that, is, in a city, town or village), to notify the council to take the necessary steps within a prescribed time, and it is provided that where such notice is given, it is not necessary for a by-law authorizing a borrowing to be submitted to the proprietary electors or burgesses. Penalties are provided in the new section 13g for failure on the pait of a muni cipality to comply with the notice. Section 7 of the amending Act introduces a new section 23a, which is intended to overcome difficulties which have arisen where there has been an overlapping of full-time health districts and districts governed by local boards of health. The effect of the sec¬ tion is that where a municipality is included in a full-time health