The public health acts and other sanitary laws & regulations. : Specially prepared for the Diploma of public health / by Martin Elliott and Gilbert Elliott.

  • Elliott, Martin J.
Date:
1906
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    some hideous disease in epidemic form from appearing- and devastating the multitudes that live and toil in such a congested area. And many must be surprised when con- templating the low death rate, and continued absence of any serious outbreak of disease in the many densely populated centres throughout the United Kingdom. A vast machinery for the prevention of such catastrophe does exist, and is perpetually kept in motion by autho- rities acting under statutory enactments relating to public health, as well as rules, regulations, and orders of Grovernment departments, in addition to bye-laws passed by the sanitary authorities, which have aU the force of law, so long as they are reasonable, consistent, and do not supersede the law, and have been confirmed by the Local Government Board, in which, throughout England and Wales, the supervision of all matters pertaining to sanita- tion is centered. Some acquaintance with the force—namely, the law—by which the sanitary authorities are enabled to set in motion, and keep in satisfactory working condition, this very im- portant and complicated plant is required of the aspirant for the diploma of public health; and few vdll deny, that distasteful as the acquisition of such knowledge may prove, it is a sine qua non for the efficient performance of a medical man holding any office, of which some of the duties are the enforcement and proper execution of the statutes and bye-laws relating to public health. In the county of London the administration of sanitary matters is vested in the borough councils, consisting of the mayor, aldermen, and bm-gesses of the various metro- politan boroughs. And in counties throughout England