Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock.

Date:
1905
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Credit: Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock. 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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    (1) Any premises ' or part thereof of such a construction^ or in such a state^ as to be a nuisance' or injurious or dangerous to liealth: [21, 160] (2) Any street, pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, sink, cistern, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, urmal, cesspool, dram, dung-pit, or ashpit so foul or in such a state or so situated as to be a nuisance * or injurious or dangerous to health: ° °? ^PPly^ injurious or dangerous to (4) Any stable, byr^i^ or other building in which any animal or animals are kept in such a manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance * or injurious or dangerous to health: ^ (5) Any accumulation or deposit, including any deposit of mineral refuse, which is a nuisance* or injurious or dangerous to health, or any deposit of offensive matter, refuse, or offal, or manure (other than farmyard manure or manure from byres or stables, or spent hops from breweries), within hfty yards of any pubUc road where- ever situated, or any offensive matter, refuse, or offal, or manure other than aforesaid contained in uncovered trucks or waggons standing or being at any station or siding or elsewhere on a railway or in canal boats so as to be a nuisance * or injurious or dangerous to health : [21, 23, 24, 149] (6) Any work, manufactory, trade, or business,injurious to the health of the neighbourhood or so conducted as to be injurious or dangerous to health, or any collection of rags or bones injurious or dangerous to health : (7) Any house or part of a house ' so overcrowded as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates : [158] (8) Any schoolhouse, or any factory which is not a factory subject to the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1878 to 1895, or any Act amending the same, with respect to cleanliness, ventilation, or overcrowding, and (i) is not kept in a cleanly state and free from efBuvia arising from any drain, pl■i^y, water-closet, earth- closet, urinal, or other nuisance,* or • V. deflnition, § 16, aud Note by Messrs Macdougall aud Murray, p. 11. 1 D. § 3, OTiie. 2 J). § 20 (3) (a), ■post. 3 If filthy, action can be taken under § 40, posi. ■» WeUs with water unfit for dietetic use may be shut up, whether they are public or private, but if closure of the latter is objected to, au order from the sheriff to close is required. «. § 34, Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, as amended by § 9 of 18SC Act; and under the Dairy Cow and Milks Order, 1SS5, made in terms thereof, pp. 213, 217, 218, etc. 8 r. | 36, post, giving additional powers.