Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly.

  • Jamaica. Central Board of Health
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    sons are antliorized to plead such l)ye-]awp, niles, or regulations, as a full defence to any proceedings instituted against them. I'hfc public and parochial authorities of this island are herehv required to execute the above bye-laws, rules, and regulations, or such of iheni as the said Central Board shall direct, in all cases where the owners or occupiers of houses and tenements shall, from poverty or any other sufficient cause, be unable to carry out the same. The above rules, bye-laws, and regula- tions, were passed at a special meeting of the Central Board of Health, holden at St. Jago de la Vega, on Thursday the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our l .ord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. (Signed) J. GAYI.EAH!), President of the Central Board of Health. Additional re<^'uIation dratvn up hy the Central IBoard of Health, J or the purpose of being submitted to his excelleuci/ the ^ oDemor in council, under the provi- sions of an act passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of her present majesty, Victoria, chapter sixty, entitled '''An act for the establishment of a Central J3oard of Health, and for other purposes.' The Central Board of Health shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, to issue an order to the authorities of each parish in the island, to carry into effect the existing police and other laws for cleansing and kee[)ing free from nuisances, and to enforce re- gulations enacted for that purpose in all towns, and that the said Central Board of Health shall also have power to employ a proper person to see the laws obeyed in tliose respects, when, and as occasion may