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

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    street, and after giving reasonable notice in icriting to the owner or occupier (if on the report of the surveyor it ap- pears necessan/) into, through, or under, any lands what- soever, within their district. All L. A.'s must see before they use any sewer, that the sewage is free from all escrementitious, or foul or noxious matter. The obligation to see that the sewage does not deteriorate the purity and quality of the water in the stream, water-course, canal, pond or lake into which it is conveyed is on them, and not on the individual who creates the sewage. {Ainley v. Kirkheaton Local Board, 60 L. J. Ch. 734.) Every L. A. shall cause the sewers belonging to them to be constructed, covered, ventilated and kept, so as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and to be properly cleansed and emptied. jsq-QTE.—An action for damages will lie at the suit of a person whose property has been damaged by the failure of the L. A. to perform their duties in this respect. {Smith V. King's Norton Urban District Council, 60 J. P. 520.) Owners and occupiers have an absolute right to drain into sewers of the L. A. provided they give the requisite notice, and comply with the mode of communication be- tween their drains and the sewers of the authority. ]SloTE.—Any person causing a drain to empty into a sewer in contravention of such provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. The authority may close such communication and recover in a summary manner expenses incurred in so doing. Such covered di-ain or drains, of such size and materials, and at such a level, and with such fall, as on the report of