A Manual of public health for the use of local authorities, Medical Officers of Health, and others, / by W.H. Michael, W.H. Corfield, and J.A. Wanklyn ; edited by Ernest Hart.

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1874
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    f SCHOOLDF] CHAPTER III. OFEICEKS AND POWEES OF LOCAL AUTHOKITIES. Officers of To Carry out properly tlie duties of local authorities good Authorities, officials are indispensable. Upon tlieir efficiency must largely depend the standard of public health of the district, seeing that it is impossible for local authorities, however competent they may be as administrators, to act as the Executive in carrying out the various Acts of Parliament which regulate their authority and define their duties. It is requisite for urban authorities to establish, with the Bye-Laws. consent of the Local Government Board, a series of bye- laws, and it is important to note here that these bye-laws must be most carefully framed, as they will have no validity if the powers sought to be exercised by virtue of them ex- ceed those conferred by the Act of Parliament, of and to which they should be the exponents and adjuncts. They should be framed with due regard to the character and wants of the district, and it will be the duty of the Clerk, in carrying on the business of the Sanitary Authority, to see their provisions strictly enforced, and not exceeded either by the Board itself, or its officers. A form of such bye-laws is annexed. The form of Bye-Laws which is here given is, with some trifling alterations adopted by all the Local Boards in England, and is of so much importance as defining the relative duties of Urban Authorities, their officers, and the public, that it is deemed advisable to print it in extenso. URBAN SA]S:iTARY AUTHORITY. BYE-LAWS, made and ordained by the Urban Sanitary Authority for the District of , pur-
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