Practical sanitation : a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others interested in sanitation / by George Reid ; with an appendix on sanitary law / by Herbert Manley.

  • Reid, George, 1854-1925
Date:
1895
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Credit: Practical sanitation : a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others interested in sanitation / by George Reid ; with an appendix on sanitary law / by Herbert Manley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . 3. Common lodging-houses. 4. New streets and buildings. 5. Markets. 6. Slaughter-houses. 7. Hackney carriages. 8. Public bathing. 9. Public baths and washhouses, and open bathing-places. Duties of the officers and servants. 10. Pleasure grounds. 11. Horses, ponies, mules, or asses, standing for hire. 12. Pleasure boats and vessels. 13. Houses lei in lodgings. 14. Cemeteries. 15. Hop-pickers. 16. Mortuaries. 17. Offensive trades. These are all applicable to urban authorities ; rural authorities have powers only with respect to private scavenging (1), common lodging-houses (3), houses let in lodgings (13), hop-pickers (15), fruit-pickers (Public Health Act, 1882), tents and vans (H.W.C., 1885, 9), and mortuaries (16); and also in common with urban authorities, certain powers under the Public Health Act, 1890, which have been fully mentioned above. There is no necessity to enter more fully into the suggestive provisions of the Model Bye-laws, since the principal ])oints requiring notice have been dealt with in their appropriate places. Local Government Act, 1894. Apart from a re-arrangement of authorities, and, in certain cases, a re-adjustment of boundaries, the new Local Government Act creates new authorities in the shape of Parish Councils in every rural parish which has a population of 300 or upwards. Also, by order of the County Council, providing the Parish Sec. 1(1). Meeting so resolve, a Parish Council may be established in any (a.) rural parish having a population of 100 and upwards, and, with the consent of the Parish Meeting, in any rural parish having a population of less than 100. Also, with the consent of the (6.) respective Parish Meetings, neighbouring parishes may be grouped under a common Parish Council, but with a separate Parish Meeting for every parish so grouped. As regards the public health powers of Parish Councils, under Section 7. Section 7 of the Act, the powers under certain adoptive Acts