The law relating to public health : being the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and Amending Acts of 1871, 1875, and 1882 : annotated with special reference to the changes introduced by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, with numerous decisions, Scotch and English, a copious index, and appendices containing practical forms and relative statutes / by J. Eaton Dykes and Dudley Stuart.
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The law relating to public health : being the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and Amending Acts of 1871, 1875, and 1882 : annotated with special reference to the changes introduced by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, with numerous decisions, Scotch and English, a copious index, and appendices containing practical forms and relative statutes / by J. Eaton Dykes and Dudley Stuart. 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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![EIYEES POLLUTION PREVENTION ACT, 1876. [39 & 40 Vict. c. 75.] An Act for making further Provision for the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers—[15th August, 1876.] Whereas it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of the pollution of rivers, and in particular to prevent the establish- ment of new sources of pollution : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : §§ Short tiuTof 1- '^^^^ -^^^ ^^^^^ purposes as the Rivers Pollution Act. Prevention Act, 1876, PART I. Prohibition as to putting solid matters into streams. Law as to Solid Matters. 2 Every person who puts or causes to be put or to fall or knowin<^lv permits to be put or to fall or to be carried into any stream, so as either singly or in combination with other similar acts of the same or any other person to interfere with its due flow, or to pollute its waters, the solid refuse of any manufactory, manufac- turing process or quarry, or any rubbish or cinders, or any o her waste or any putrid solid matter, shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Act. „ p ^ In proving interference with the due flow of any s ream, or in proving the pollution of any stream, evidence may be given of Slated acts which together cause such interference or pollution Xugh each act taken by itself may not be sufficient for that purpose.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21920576_0232.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
