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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ments and hereditaments of whatsoever nature ov tenure ; Justice, justice of the peace for the county, division, liberty, borough, or place where the matter requiring the cognizance of such justice shall arise.] 3. This act may be adopted for any borough in Ireland which now „,j^y (,b has or may hereafter have any municipal corporation, or in which now adopted in any exist or may hereafter exist any commissioners for the paving, lighting, Boi-ougb. or cleansing of the same, under any public or local act of Parliament or any charter, and any townships having commissioners under local acts. 4. [This section enables corporation or commissioners to adopt the act.] 5. Such council or town commissioners shall give not less than On requisition twenty-eight nor more than forty-two days public notice of their of ratep:iyers intention to take into consideration the propriety of adopting this act, Towif Com- °'' and of the time and place for holding the meeting at which they will missioners to tal^e it into consideration ; and if there be presented to such council postpone pro- or town commissioners at that meeting a memorial in writing, signed ceedings for one by not less than one-tenth in v.ilue of the persons liable to be rated to rates made by such council or town commissioners, i-equesting such council or town commissioners to postpone sucli consideration for a period of one year, then and in sucli case such consideration shall be postponed for such period of one year, and shall be entered on as soon after the expiration of the year of postponement as such council or town commissioners shall think fit. 6. The expenses of carrying this act into execution in any such Expenses to ba borough in which it shall be so adopted shall be paid out of any rates jates'^' which such council or such town commissioners may have power to impose for the purpose of paving, lighting, cleansing, or otherwise improving the borough, town, or township, and which rates it is hereby enacted may be increased for the purpose of defraying such expense, such increase to be subject to the approval of the Lords of the Treasury. 7. The net income arising from any lodging houses or dwellings Net Income to built by any council or town commissioners after the payment of all P''' '° outgoings, including the interest and instalments of principal of any Borough Fund, borrowed money, shall be paid to the credit of the borough or town commissioners' fund, or otherwise in aid of the rates which may have been applied to the payment of the expenses aforesaid, and the council or town commissioners shall keepjdistinct accounts of their expenses, receipts, and liabilities with reference to the execution of this act, to be called The Labourers' Dwellings Account. 8. For the purposes hereinafter mentioned, the Commissioners of Commissioners Public Works in Ireland may, out of the funds from time to time at °^ i'ublio Worlts their disposal, advance on loan to any such council or town commis- moneys to'^'^ sioners as aforesaid, or to any company, society, or person as herein- Com].anies, after mentioned—namely, any railway company, or dock or harbour Socieiies, company or commissioners, or any other company, society, or associa- °' tion established for trading or manufacturing inirposes in the course of whose business or in discharge of whose duties persons of the labouring class may be employed, any private person or persons en- titled to any land held in fee-simple or fee-farm, or for lives renew- able for ever, or for any term of years whereof not less than eighty years shall be unexpired ; and all such advances by way of loan shall be applied towards the purchase of land or buildings, and the erection, alteration, and adaptation of buildings to be used as dwellings for the labouring classes, and in providing all conveniences which may be deemed by the Commissioners of Public Works proper in connection with such dwellings; and in the case of loan to any such council or town commissioners as aforesaid, the term dwellings in this section shall include lodging-houses formed or erected by them under the