The law relating to public health and local government : including the law relating to the removal of nuisances injurious to health, the prevention of diseases, and sewer authorities, with the statutes and cases / by W. Cunningham Glen.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1869
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Credit: The law relating to public health and local government : including the law relating to the removal of nuisances injurious to health, the prevention of diseases, and sewer authorities, with the statutes and cases / by W. Cunningham Glen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the text of the chapters to the subject to which they severally relate. Those which bear upon the j)ollution of rivers by the sewage of towns being discharged into them are of peculiar im- portance, as the subject of the preservation of rivers from pollution now demands the serious attention of the local authorities. Several entirely new chapters have been added; aud some of those contained iu tlie former Editions have been re-written or subdivided into sections, so as to keep each particular subject separate, and thus make the work more easy of reference. One of the new chapters relates to the powers of sewer authorities under the Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and the Sanitary Acts, 1866, 1867, and 1868, which give improved facilities for the sewerage of suburban districts. Another is of peculiar importance, treating ot the drainage, storage, and distribution of water, and is contributed by Mr. P. B. Cunuinghain, Civil Engineer of Her Majesty’s Indian Government Service. Tlie law^ relating to the establishment of public baths and wash- houses, common lodging-liouses, dwelling-houses for the labouring classes, AVorkshop Eegulatiou Act, and free public libraries, has been fully set forth in the chapters relating to those matters;—so also with regard to the drainage of towns into the river Thames, and the pre- servation for the use of the public of commons or open spaces in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. In a separate chapter, Mr. M‘Cullagh Torrens’ measure for the establishment of Artizans’ aud Labourers’ Dwellings has received due attention. The law relating to the removal of nuisances injurious to health, and the prevention of diseases, has been entirely revised; and with that part of the work has been incorporated the new provisions of the Sanitary Acts, 1866 and 1868, which give greater facilities for the removal of nuisances by the action of the local authorities. There have also been incorporated iu it the views of some of the best authorities on the subject ot disinfection, water supply, and other cognate subjects. The Appendix comprises the whole ot the Public Health, Local Governnieut, Public Health aud Local Government (Supplemental), Nuisances Bemoval and Diseases Prevention Acts, aud the Acts incorporated with those Acts; as also the Quarantine Act, 1825, the Workshop Eegulatiou Act, and some others.
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