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

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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$power to cleanse and scavenge the highways and the foot- paths under their management and control within such special scavenging district, or to pay or contribute out of the assessments raised under the Road and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1S78 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 51), for a proportion of the cost of cleansing and scavenging such highways and footpaths. Where within such special district any private street or footway, or part thereof, is not levelled, macadamised, paved, channelled, and made good, to the satisfaction of the district committee (or, where the county is not divided into districts, the county council), such authority may, by notice addressed to the respective owners of the premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting on such street or footway, or parts thereof, as may require to be levelled, macadamised, paved, channelled, and made good, order them to do all such works or any of them, and that within a time to be specified in such notice. If such order is not complied with, the said authority may, if they think fit, execute the works mentioned therein, and may recover in a summary manner the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the owners in default according and in proportion to the frontage and valuation of their respec- tive premises or, in the case of dispute, in such proportion as may be settled by the sheriff. Provided that it shall be competent to appeal to the sheriff against any such order, and aU the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-two of this Act in regard to an appeal to the sheriff against a resolution of a local authority shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to an appeal against such order. [8, 27] Houses in Filthy state to be Purified 40.'^ Where it appears to any local authority that any house - or part thereof, or any article of bedding or clothing therem, is in such a filthy or unwholesome condition that the health of any person is affected or endangered thereby, or that the whitewashing, cleansing, or purifying of any house or part thereof, or any article of bedding or clothing therein, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease, the local authority shall give notice» in writing to the owner = or occupier 2 of such house or part thereof to whitewash, cleanse, or punfy the same, or any such article, as the case may require. 1 tbere is no power of forcible entry. 2 ^. definition, § 3, anU. ^v. i \od, poH. Served on owner in tlie case of whitewasliing, but 011 occupier in case of filthy clothing or bedding.$