Handbook for inspectors of nuisances / by Edward Smith.

  • Edward Smith
Date:
1873
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Credit: Handbook for inspectors of nuisances / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. The Inspector of Nuisances, when acting under the pro- visions of various Acts of Parliament, and the Orders of the Local Government Board of 1872, has numerous functions to perform in reference to the public health, some of which devolve upon him as the agent of the sanitary authority or the medical officer of health, whilst as to others he is empowered to take independent action. In preparing the Manual for Medical Officers of Health, and the Handbook for Inspectors of Nuisafices, I have endeavoured to keep this distinction in mind; and whilst both officers are engaged on the same subjects, it seemed desirable that each should have the greatest information on those in which he has the greater responsibility. Moreover, as the medical officer of health is presumed to be a man of scientific attainments, whilst the inspector of nuisances may not have that advantage, scientific questions have been more fully discussed in the Manual than in the Handbook, and the inspector has been referred to the medical officer as his guide thereon. Hence, whilst questions of disease, ventilation, sewage, and water supply have a prominent place in the Manual, those of food unfit for the use of man, and the apparatus required in sanitary works, are much more fully discussed in the Handbook. It appears to me that the inspector is to be the eyes,