Sanitary law : a digest of the sanitary acts of England and Scotland / by H. Aubrey Husband.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Sanitary law : a digest of the sanitary acts of England and Scotland / by H. Aubrey Husband. 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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    (a) Sewers made by any person for his own profit, or by any company for the profit of the shareholders. {b) Sewers made and used for the purpose of draining, preserving, or improving land under any local or private Act of Parliament, or for the purpose of irrigating land. (c) Sewers under the authority of any commissioners of sewers appointed by the Crown. Any doubt as to the ownership of a sewer constructed outside the district of any L.A., is now set at rest by this section, which enacts that the sewer is vested in the L.A. that constructed it, or to whom it may have been transferred. Any L.A. may purchase sewers within their district, but such change of ownership does not affect those who have previously enjoyed the right of using such sewers. In mamtaining existing sewers, and in making new ones, L.A. must remember that tliey are not entitled to create any nuisance, and that should they do so, they are liable to action. But, if a statute authorises operations Avhich produce a nuisance without providing means for removing it, apiilication must be made to Parliament, for otherwise it is irremediable. A L.A. is not entitled to turn their sewage into an existing watercourse so that it becomes a nuisance, although the water may already be polluted by the houses on its banks, and if a L.A. fail to provide proper sewers for their district, the L.G.B. may compel them to do so by mandamus, or may appoint some ]>erson to cany out their duty. All sewers must be made of sufficient capacity for the conveyance of the ordinary sewage of the district, or else the L.A. will be liable for any damage by over- flow or bursting of the sewer, unless such sewer has stood for six years and then burst, or the overflow be Sec. U 15
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