The handbook of public health : a complete edition of the public health and other sanitary Acts relating to Scotland / annotated, and with the rules, instructions and decisions of the Board of Supervision brought up to date, and relative forms ; by John Skelton.

John Skelton

Date:: 1890

Credit: The handbook of public health : a complete edition of the public health and other sanitary Acts relating to Scotland / annotated, and with the rules, instructions and decisions of the Board of Supervision brought up to date, and relative forms ; by John Skelton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$Section 16 (1) of the Housing of the Working Claw*-* Act ,1 provide* that these Acts (Group A) may be adopted by any local authority in boot- land, ami that the expense* shall be paid and money borrowed as under the Public Health Acts. . * Section 16 (2) provides that the provisions with respect to the adoption of these Acts (Group A) u by a rural sanitary authority shall apply to the adoption thereof by a local authority, being a parochial board, as if the Board of Supervision for the relief of the Poor in Scotland were substituted in the said provisions for the Local Government Board. ^ The requirements imposed upon rural sanitary authorities in adopting these Acts are briefly these (§ 1 (2) (3)): 1. They may make appucauon to the Local Government iWrd, -]>eeifving the area to wlncli the Acts are to apply; 2. The Local Government Board shall thereupon cause a local inquiry to be made by one of their inspectors; 3. If the inspector certifies that accommodation for the laWring classes is necessary in such area, that there is no probability of its being otherwise provided, and that it is prudent from a financial point of view for the authority to undertake the scheme, the Local Government Board may publish the certificate in the ' London C.a/ette,' and thereupon the authority may adopt the Acts ; 4. 11 the authority think it just that the expense* should fall on some contntv utorv place'or placesy' instead of on the whole district, they may frame their application accordingly, and the Local Government B-wrd may make an order so limiting the area on which the expenses ore to fall. It trill be observed that the words contributory place hove no inter- pretation attached to them in the clause applying the Act to Scotland. In ih- Kns-li-h Public H- alth Act, 1*7:. (.$ 22!»>. the expression ha- n definite meaning, but no similar expression is used in the >cotch Act n-.r i- liiero in the Scotch Act unv area exactly corresponding, although the special districts for drainage and water supply are no doubt similar, l ie ques- tion thus arises, whether in Scotland the expense of adopting and execut- ing these Acts could be confined to a limited area uuder the provisions ol section 1 (3) of this Act. In connection with section 10 (2) another question may arise— Seeing that after the Local Government (Scotland) Act comes into operation there will be no parochial board in Scotland acting as local authority, will this sub-section be by implication repealed ( or, Scein'- that under the Local Government Act the powers and duties of parochial boards as local authorities will be transferred to the county councils and district committees will the provisions applicable to rural sanitary authorities apply to the bodies which supersede parochial boards a> local authorities—viz., the district committees J Grocp B. The second group of statutes to which the Act of lssr, tefers —viz.. The Artizans Dwellings Arts. ls«S to 1>S2 .the lorreiis Act*). C,,The'Trtizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1868 (31 A 88 Vict c. The'Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act. 1879 (42 & 43 Vict c. 63); and The Artisans Dwellings Act, 1882, Part II. (4.. A 46 \ 1< L c M> These Vets applv in Scotland to burghs and police burgh- only I liej pr-.vide that when the medical officer or sanitary inspector finds that any •remises in the burgh are dangerous to health or unfit for habitation, he 'hall report the same to the local authority, who shall thereupon consult$