A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers.

  • George Frederick Chambers
Date:
1875
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Credit: A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (16.) In matters not specifically provided for in this Order, lie shall obiscrve and execute the instructions of the Local Goveniment Board on the duties of Medical Officers of Health, and all the lawful orders and directions of the Sanitary Authority- applicable to his office. (17.) Whenever the Diseases Prevention Act of 1855 is in force within the District, he shall observe the directions and regulations issued under that Act by the Local Government Board, so far as the same relate to or concern his office.^ Section V.—Remuneration. Art. 1.—The Sanitary Authority or Authorities, as the case may be, shall paj' to any officer appointed under this Order such salary or remuneration as may be apjproved by the Ijocal Government Board ; and where such officer is ajDpointed for two or more Districts, the salary shall be apportioned amongst the Districts in such manner as the Baid Board shall approve. Provided that the Sanitary Authority or Authorities, with the approval of the Local Government Board, may _ a In the Rural Order there is another paragraph here ;—(18) Wliere more than one Medical Officer of Health shall he appointed by a Sanitary Authority such authority, with the approval of the local Government Board, may either assign to eacli of tlie officers a portion of the district, or may distribute the duties of Medical Officer of Health amongst such Officers. pay to any such officer a reasonable compensation on account of extraordinary services, or other unforeseen circumstances connected with his duties or the neccssitiea of the District or Districts for which he is appointed. Art. 2.—The salary or remuneration of every such officer shall be payable up to the day on whicli he ceases to hold the office, and no longer, subject to any deduction which the Sanitary Authority or Authorities may be entitled to make in respect of Sect. III., Art. 3 ; and in case he shall die whilst holding such office, the proportion of salary (if any) remaining unpaid at his death shall be paid to his personal representatives. Art. 3.—The salary or remuneration assigned to sucli officer shall be payable quarterly, according to the usual Feast Days in the j-ear, namely, Lady Day, Jlidsummer Day, Michaelmas Day, and Christmas Day; but the Sani- tary Authority or Authorities may pay to him at the expira- tion of every calendar month such proportion as they may think tit on account of the salary or remuneration to which he may become entitled at the termination of the quarter. Given under our Seal of Office, this Eleventh day of November, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. JAMES STANSFELD, Fresident. John Lambert, Becretwy. General Order of the Local Government Board as to the Appointment by Urban Sanitary Anthorities of Inspectors of Nuisances. (llth November, 1872.) In England and Wales, constituted by the Public Health Act, 1872;— And to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS by Section 7 of The Public Health Act, 1872, it is enacted that, subject to the provisions of that Act, the duties imposed by previous Sanitary Acts, in- cluding that of appointing Inspectors of Nuisances for the purposes of those Acts, shall be transferred to Urban Sanitary authorities constituted under the above-mentioned Act; Ajid whereas it is enacted by Section 10 of the said Act that the Local Government Board shall have the same powers as they have in the case of a District Medical Officer of a Union, with regard to the qualification, ap- pointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of Officers of Sanitary Authorities, any portion of whose salary is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament; And whereas it is further enacted by the last-mentioned section that the same person may, wdth the sanction of the Local Government Board, be appointed the inspector of Nuisances for two or more Sanitary Districts, by the joint or several appointment of the Sanitary Authorities of such districts : a The Order addressed to Ruial Sanitary Authorities is almost identical with this one. Now We, the Local Government Board, deeming it expedient that Regulations should be made with respect to the appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of Inspectors of Nuisances appointed by Urban Sanitary Authorities, in all those cases where any portion of the salary of any such officer is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament, do hereby Order and Direct as follows: Section I.—A^ppointment.h Section II.—Tenure of Offxe.e Section III.—Duties. The following shall be the duties of the Inspector of Nuisances in respect of the District for which he is ap- pointed, or if he shall be appointed for more than one District, then in respect of each of such Districts:— (1.) He shall perform, either under the special direc- tions of the Sanitary Authority, or (so far as autho- h AVith a trifling verbal alteration in Art.6, this section is identi- cal (midatiis vinfmulisj with section II. of the Order relating to Medical Officers (ante.J c This section is identScil ('mutatis mutandis) with Sect. III. Of the order relating to Medical Officer.% (ante-J
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