[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough.

  • Eccles (Greater Manchester, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Many Authorities realising this have adopted private bill®. 8 0 The following are extracts from the Wolverhampton Provisional Order:— [59 & 60 Vic.] [Chap, cxi.] LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD’S PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 19) Act, 1896. Borough of Wolverhampton. Art. IV.—(1.) When a sewer and water supply sufficient for the purpose are reasonably available, the Corporation may from ti ue to time, by written notice to the owner or owners ot any building, require any existing closet accommodation (other than a Water Closet or a Waste-water Closet) provided at or in connection with such building, to be altered so as to be converted into a Water Closet or Waste-water Closet, which shall comply with the bye-laws for the time being in force and shall communicate with a sewer; and they may also require a separate receptacle for ashes and house refuse to be provided at or in connection with such building. (2). If the owner or owners of any such building fail in any respect to comply with a notice from the Corporation (under subdivision 1 of this Article) the Corporation may at the expiration of a time to be specified in the notice (not being less than fourteen days after the service of the notice), do the work specified in such notice ; and may recover in a summary manner from the owner or owners the expenses incurred by the Corporation in so doing : Provided that, if in any case such alteration shall be required in respect of any existing closet accommodation which prior to the service of the notice under subdivision (1) of this Article, shall not have been certified by the medical officer of health to be sufficient for the necessities of the inhabitants of the building nor to be in such a state as to create a nuisance or to be injurious to health, then the cost of providing and laying the drain and of connecting the same with the sewer and of fixing the Water Closet or Waste-water Closet, as the case may be, shall be borne by the Corporation, and the remainder of the said expenses shall be borne by the owner. (3.) The Corporation may contribute towards the expenses incurred in making any alteration of any closet accommodation in pursuance of this Article, in any case in which they may not be required to bear any part of such expense. Art. X. The Corporation may with the sanction of the Local Government Board and subject to the provisions of this Order borrow on the security of the Improvement Fund and Improvement Rate of the Borough such sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of thirty-five thousand pounds as may from time to time be necessary for the purpose of defraying any expenditure of the Corporation in pursuance of subdivisions (2) and (3) of Article IV. of this Order. If it is right, as every one must admit, that these structures should be changed, it ought not to necessitate each district applying for a private bill, which entails a great expense even if there is no opposition. The following is an extract from an article in Public Health, written by myself, under the heading of ‘‘ Typhoid Fever, Privy Middens and the Public Health Acts.” After referring to the particulars of the trial Laskey v. Barnett, it states :— “ The judgment from a legal point of view may be correct; it certainly is of