On difficulties which exist in administering some of the Sanitary Acts of Parliament / by James B. Hutchins.

  • Hutchins, J. B. (James B.)
Date:
1869
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Credit: On difficulties which exist in administering some of the Sanitary Acts of Parliament / by James B. Hutchins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    are Local Authorities under the several Acts relatin: to sanitary measures, and also of the different powers which these hodies possess under the Acts. There are several Local Authorities. There is, in some places, one Local Authority for dealing with some nuisances, and there is another Local Authority for dealing with other nuisances ; and again, in other places, there is but one Local Authority for dealing with all nuisances. There is a Local Authority for the execution of the Local Government Act; and this authority is a Sewer Authority, a Nuisance Authority, a Water Supply Authority, and a Hospital Authority. There is a Local Authority for the purposes of the Sewage Utilization Acts (such as providing sewers and a water supply), which authority is termed the Sewer Authority. There is a Local Authority for the ])urposes of the Sanitary Act, 1866, which authority may be either a Local Authority for nuisance purposes or a Local Authority for sewerage purposes. And there is a Local Authority for the purposes of the Sanitary Act, 1«68, which body must be either a Local Board or a Sewer Authority. By the Nuisances Removal Act of 1855 various bodies were constituted the Local Authorities for the removal of nuisances; but in I860, by the 23rd and 24th Vict., cap. 77, fresh bodies were named who should see to the execution of the Act, and, with the exception of Nuisance Removal Com- mittees and Highway Boards, which were abolished,