[Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1937
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    of course, not created until 1888 could properly claim to be such a “person” and make such a complaint in pursuance of the section. The Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, further extended the duty of Rural Sanitary Authorities to provide or require provision of a sufficient water supply within their district. The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885, Imposed a general duty on Local Authorities entrusted with the execution of laws relating to public health and local government to put in force from time to time as occasion might arise the powers with which they were then vested so as to secure the proper sanitary conditions of all premises within the area under the control of such authority (Section 7). These two statutory provisions will be of relevance in considering Section 57 of the Local Government Act, 1929, later. Local Government Act, 1888. County M.O.H. The Local Government Act, 1888, provided for the establishment of County Councils and with their establishment there came into being the officer responsible for the performance of the Council’s public health functions, vtz., the County Medical Officer of Health. Section 17 of Introduced an enabling power of appointment of a Medical Officer of Healt (Sub-section 1). In the event of such appointment, there was a provision whereby the County Council and any District Council could make arrangernents for rendering the services of the County M.O.H. availaWe in the area of the District Council and the County M.O.H. was given all the powers and duties of a District M.O.H. Such an arrangement was deemed to be a satisfaction of the obligation imposed on a District Council by the to appoint a Medical Officer of Health. In other words, the idea behind tHs provision of the 1888 Act seems to have been the ^ District M.O.H., and therefore district administration of public health, to a large extent in the County Medical Officer of Health, an idea which by 1909. as we shall see, the Local Government Board had come to view with disfavour. Section 19 of the Act imposed an obligation on the District M.O.H. to send to the County M.O.H. a copy of every periodical report which the latter was was required to send to the Local Government Board. Fadure to send such copy entitled the County Council to refuse to pay any contribution to the Dist- rict M O H. which otherwise in pursuance of the Act they might ave un taken to pay (Sub-section I). The Section concluded with a provision which would appear to be the first germ of the supervisory powers of a County Coun-
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