Volume 1

Model byelaws, rules and regulations under the public health and other acts : with alternative and additional clauses / prepared and edited by William Mackenzie and Percy Handford.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Model byelaws, rules and regulations under the public health and other acts : with alternative and additional clauses / prepared and edited by William Mackenzie and Percy Handford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    especially to country districts ; and in all cases both the model clauses and any alternative forms that may be suggested are discussed in ample detail in connection with the decisions of the courts of law. This, however, is but one of the objects which have been held in view in the preparation of this work for the press, not the least value of which, it is hoped, will be found in connection with the enforcement of byelaws based on the mode] clauses, where these are already in force, or may here- after be adopted by the local authority. The architectural, sanitary, and practical details generally have been supplied by authorities of high standing in these special branches of the subject; and in addition, a prominent feature has been made of the collation of the reports of decided cases, so arranged under sub-headings as to be easily referred to, whether in the Council Chamber or in the Courts. In the first volume alone, sixteen separate series are discussed and illustrated, the statutory powers collated with the various clauses, and the effect of decided cases pointed out, equal attention being given, e.g., to the regulation of hackney carriages (including “ motor cabs ”), of public markets, pleasure grounds and pleasure boats, and public bathing, as to matters of more direct sanitary bearing such as the prevention of nuisances, the construction of streets and buildings, and the regulation of lodging-houses. In the case of the byelaws as to streets and buildings the text is illustrated by the addition of an important series of original diagrams. In the second volume eighteen supplementary series of byelaws, rules and regulations under the Public Health and other Acts are given. Some of these are official series prepared by the Local Government Board. Thirteen, however, are original. The collection includes supplementary byelaws as to
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