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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    of the recited act and this act with respect to such petty sessional division shall be borne by and paid out of the rates for the relief of the poor of the several parishes or other places comprised therein in which any common lodging house is situate (except so far as there are other moneys applicable to the purpose), and the amount of such exoenses shall be ascertained and apportioned by such jjustices, and shall be paid accordingly as they order. 14 anil 15 Viet., c. 28. 16 and 17 Vict., c. 41. Short title. Reciteit Acts and tliis Act to be construed as one, and to extend to Ireland. Explanation of certain Terms in recited Acts and this Act. THE COMMON LODGING HOUSES (IRELAND) ACT, i860. 23 Victoria, Cap. 26. An act to remove Doubts as to the application of The Common Lodging Houses Acts to Ireland, and to amend the Provisious of the same so far as they relate to Ireland. [z^ih May, i860.] Whereas doubts have arisen as to whether ^' The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1853, extend to Ireland^ and difficuliies have occurred in the execution of the said acts therein ; and it is expedient that such doubts and difficulties should be removed, and for that purpose that the said acts should be explained and amended with reference to the execution thereof in/r^- land : be it ihevefoie enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say) : 1. In citing this act for any purpose it shall be sufficient to use the expression The Common Lodging Houses Act, Ireland, i860. 2. This act and The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1853, shall, lor the purpose of the execution thereof in Ireland, be construed as if they were one act, and the said acts as hereby amended shall be deemed to extend to Ireland. 3. For the purpose of the execution of the said recited acts and of this act in Ireland, certain words and expressions used in the said acts are hereby declared and explained to have been intended to bear the following meanings ; (that is to say). The word place includes electoral division : The words poor law medical officer, and medicaLofficer of the pai-ish, place, or district, mean the medical officer of the dispensary district within which any common lodging house is situate : The Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations means the act passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of her Majesty, intituled ^«/4c-//('Z' the Regulation of Municipal Cor- porations in Ireland : The term common lodging house shall mean a house in which persons are harboured or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at a time, or any part of which is let for any term less than a week : The term local authority shall have the following meanings : in borouglis, incorporated under the above-mentioned act for the