A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SEWAGE UTILIZATION ACT.« 28 AND 29 Victoria, Cap. 75. An Act for facilitating the more useful Application of Sewage in- Greal Britain and Ireland. [29th Jwie, 1865.] Whereas it is expedient to remove diflSculties under which Local Boards and other bodies having the care of sewers labour in disposing of the sewage of their districts so as not to be a nuisance, and to give facility to such authorities to make arrangements for the appli- cation of such sewage to land for agricultural purposes : 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 autho- rity of the same : 1. This act, for all purposes, may be cited as '' The Sewage Short title. Utilization Act, 1865. b 2. This act shall not extend to any part of the metropolis, as Application of defined by the act of the Session Eighteenth and Nineteenth Yeai's of the present Reign, chapter one hundred and twenty, for better Local Management of the metropolis, and shall not, with the exception of clause fifteen, extend to any parish as defined in the schedule to this act in a part of which parish the Public Health Act, 1848, and the Local Government Act, 1858, or one of such acts, is in force at the time of the passing of this act. 3. The expression Sewer Authority shall, in the several places Deftiiition.x)f in the schedule <: annexed hereto in that behalf mentioned, mean the Sewer persons or bodies of persons referred to in the first column of the ■'^thoiity. schedule annexed hereto ; and the term District, in relation to a Sewer Authority, shall, as respects each authority, mean the place in that behalf referred to in the second column of the said schedule. ^ Local Board shall mean a Local Board authorized in pursuance of the Public Health Act, 1S48, and the Local Government Act, 1858, or one of such acts. 4. Sewer Authorities shall have power to construct siich sewers as po^ygj-g they may think necessary for keeping their district properly cleansed Sewer and drained, and shall, as respects all sewers constructed by them or Authorities., under their control, whether the same were made before or after the passing of this act, have all the powers that Local Boards have, in respect of sewers vested in or constructed by them, under the forty- fifth and forty-sixth sections of The Public Health Act, 1848, the thirtieth section of The Local Government Act, 1858, and the fourth section of The Local Government Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861, subject to the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the last mentioned act, and to the saving clauses in The Local Government Act, 1858, mentioned, from sixty-eight to seventy-four, both inclusive; and in Scotland, in addition to such of the aforesaid powers as are applicable to Scotland, all the powers contained in section seven (Public Sewers) of part four of The General Police and Improvement (Scotland} Act, 1862.'' a This Act should he read In conjunction with the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1858, sections 30 and G8, to 75 inc!u.sivo, and 78 ; the Local Goveniment Amendment Act, 1861, sections 4, 5, and 6 ; the Public Health Act, 1866, sections 45 and 46; and the Public Health (Ireland^ Act, 1874, sees. 7, 12,13, and 26. Only extracts from the two former acts are given in tliis work. b Sec. 57 Sanitary Act, 186(3, defines the Sower Authority to be the Nuisance Authority for executing the Nuisances Removal Act. c For definition of Sewer Authority'' seethe flrstscction of the Sanitary Act, 1866-