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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![(22.) No person shall discharge, or cause or permit to drain, from any manufactory, gas-works, chemical-works, dye-house, or trade-premises where chemical processes are carried on, into any public sewer, any substance or fluid which of itself, or in combination with ordinary sewage woidd evolve any gas or exhalation more offensive than would otherwise arise from such ordinary of (23.) Every person acting as a scavenger, whether he is directly in the employ of the Board or Scavengers. ^ot, shaU wear such badge as the Board may from time to time appoint. No such person shall be guilty of any act of extortion, or shall create any disturbance, or otherwise misconduct himself, to the annoyance or obstruction of any person. Penalties. (24.) Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing By-Laws shall pay for every such offence a penalty of 2I.; and in case of a continuing offence, a further penalty of 5s. for every day during the continuance of the offence after written notice thereof from the Board. Provided nevertheless that the Justices or Court before whom any complaint shall be made for a breach of any of these By-Laws, may, if they see fit, reduce these or the penalties herein prescribed. Approved at a Meeting of the Board, held the day of- „ ., ^ - - 18 , in testimony whereof the Common Seal of the said Board was affixed, together with the Signatures of Five Members thereof. Chairman, Allowed hy the Local Government Board, this- -day of- _Secretary. 4. M))'%nh)^ to regulate ti)t ConsstrurtuDii oi ^eiu ^tmts; I. With respect to the Level, Width, and Construction of New Streets, and the provisions- for the Sewerage thereof. General eondi- (i-) Every New Street shall be laid out, as regards its direction, distance from other Streets tions as to New (existing or proposed), width, level, and gradients, according as the Board shall approve, care Streets. being taken in every case to provide efficient means of Sewerage. Width of Streets (2.) Every New Street designed to be a Public Thoroughfare shall be formed at least 40 feet to be PiiMc wide (unless a greater or less width shall in any case be required or authorized by the Board); Thoroughfares.] and every such street shall have a Foot-path on each side, or on one side only, as the Board shall in each case approve. Width of Streets (3-) Every New Street designed not to be a Public Thoroughfare shall be formed at least 30 feet not to be PubUe j wide (unless a greater or less width shall in any case be required or authorised by the Board); Thoroughfares. and there shall be one entrance at least to every such street of the full width thereof, and open from the ground upwards; provided always that when any proposed street shall be more than 100 feet long, it shall be at the option of the Board to determine whether such street shall or shall not 'be formed so that it may afterwards become a Public Thoroughfare, in which ease the require- ments of these By-Laws as to Public Thoroughfares shall apply. Modification ' ^^'} which an open space or Eore-Court of any kind, level or nearly level with certain cases^ ^ foot-path, shall be left in front of the houses, along one or both sides of a New Street through- out its whole length, or in which a New Street shaU not be the principal or only approach to dwelling houses, or in any special cases, the Board may sanction for such streets, whether Public Thoroughfares or not, a reduction of the widths herein specified, if it sees fit to do so. Definition of (S-) The width of a New Street shaU be taken to mean the whole space which is to dedicated Width. to the public (exclusive of Cellar-flaps, or of any steps or projections in the street), measured at right angles to the direction of such street. No encroachment shall be made at any time on such space, dedicated as aforesaid, without the consent of the Board. New Footpaths. (6.) When any land, in front of which there is no foot-path, shall be laid out for buUding pur- pose, the owner shall, previously to erecting, or allowing to be erected, any building thereon, set out a foot-path not less than eight feet wide in front of such land, and adjoining the existing street or thoroughfare. In cases where a foot-path exists, but is less than eight feet wide, the owner- shall set out such an amount of ground as shall bring up the aggregate width of the foot-path to- eight feet, or to such other less width as the Board may in any particular case determine. The owner shall make, form, or pave such foot-path according to the requirements of the Board.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20386643_0206.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
