Lectures on public health : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by E. D. Mapother.

Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on public health : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by E. D. Mapother. 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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    Board of Guardians may appoint Committees for particular parishes. 5. Provided that the hoard of guardians for a union may appoint a committee or committees of their own body, under section 5 of the said Nuisances Removal Acts, to act in and for one or more of the parishes or places for which the Board is the local authority ; and every committee so appointed shall have the full power of exe- cuting the said Act in all respects, within the specified place or places for which it is appointed, unless its power be expressly limited by the term of its appointment; and the board of guar- dians shall cause the charges and expenses of every such committee to be paid out of the poor rates of the place or places for which such committee is appointed; and where a committee is so ap- pointed for any such place or places the charges and expenses of the Board as local authority for or in respect of the place or places for which a committee is not appointed shall be paid or contri- buted by .such last-mentioned place or places in like manner as the expenses of a committee : Provided that where any one such committee is appointed for all the places for which the Board is the local authority its charges and expenses shall be contributed and paid in like manner as the charges and expenses of the Board would have been contributed and paid if such committee had not been appointed. [Sec. 6 applicable to England]. Wells, 8fc., belonging to any place vested in Local Authority, §'c. 7. All wells fountains, and pumps provided under section 50 of “The Public Health Act, 1848,” or otherwise, for the use of the inhabitants of any place, and not being the property of or vested in any person or Corporation other than officers of such place, shall be vested in the local authority under this Act for such place, who shall from time to time cause to be kept in good repair and condition and free from pollution all wells, fountains, and pumps vested in them under this Act, and may also keep in good repair and condition and free from pollution other wells, fountains, and pumps, dedicated to or open to the use of the inhabitants of such place. Penalty for fouling water. 8. If any person do any act whatsoever whereby any fountain or pump is wilfully or maliciously damaged, or the water of any well, fountain, or pump is polluted or fouled, he shall, upon sum- mary conviction of such offence before two justices, forfeit a sum not exceeding £i> for such offence, and a further sum not exceed- ing 20s. for every day during which such offence is continued after written notice from the local authoritv in relation thereto; but