[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority.

  • Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority (Cardiff, Wales) n 2006181154.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority 95, BTTE STREET, CARDIFF. March, 1911. To the Chairman and Members of the Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority. <1kxtl kmkn, I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1910. The Port Sanitary DivStrict of Cardiff was constivuved in the year 1882. by a Provisional Order of the Local (Jovernment Board, which was subsc(]uently confirmed l)y Parliament. In this Order the boundaries of the District are defined as follows :— So much of the Port of Cardiff' as lies between the River Rumney and Lavernock Point ; together with the waters of the said Port within such limits, and the place for tlie time being appointed as the Customs Boarding Station for such jiart of the said Port, and every other place for the time being appointed for the mooring or anchoring of ships for such part of the said Port, under any regulations for the “ prevention of the spread of disease issued under the authority of the Statutes in that behalf ; and the watersides, docks, basins, and creeks of and belonging to “ such part of the said Port.” By a Provisional Order, dated 27th duly, 1893, the liiuits of Jurisdiction of the Cardiff Port Sanitary .\uthority were extended, and on the 15th September, 189-1, an order of the Board was issued permanently constituting the Authority. This Order came into operation on the 9th Xovem- ber. 1894, and contains the following provisions:— SECTION I.— CONSTITUTION OF THE PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY. Article 1.—This Order shall come into operation on the Ninth day of November. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-four, unless it shall become Provisional, and until this Order comes into operation the said Order dated the Twenty-seventh day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-three shall continue in force. .\rticle 2.—The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the .said Borough of Cardiff, acting by the Council, as the said Urban Sanitary Authority, .shall be permanently constituted the Port Sanitary Authority for the part of the .said Port of Cardiff, hereinafter described. Article 3.—The Port Sanitary Authority may frem time to time appoint Committees con- si.sting of IMembers of such Authority for the exercise of any powers, which, in the opinion of such Authority, can be properly exercised by Committees, but the acts of every such Committee shall, unless otherwise directed by the Port Sanitary Authority, be submitted to such Authority for approval. Provided that a Committee so appointed shall in no case be authorised to borrow money or to issue any precept for contributions, or to enter into any contract, and it shall be subject to the provi.sions of Part lY, of the First Schedule of the Local Government Act, 1894, so far as they are applicable.