Sir, as the season is now approaching at which cholera has usually made its appearance in this country, I deem it my duty to call the attention of Local Authorities in the metropolis abd throughout the country to the powers at present committed to them by the Legislature for the removal of those localizing causes of disease which in former years have been found to add to the virulence of the epidemic : I have laid before Parliament Bills for the amendment of the Sanitary laws ... / B. Hall.

  • Hall, B.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Sir, as the season is now approaching at which cholera has usually made its appearance in this country, I deem it my duty to call the attention of Local Authorities in the metropolis abd throughout the country to the powers at present committed to them by the Legislature for the removal of those localizing causes of disease which in former years have been found to add to the virulence of the epidemic : I have laid before Parliament Bills for the amendment of the Sanitary laws ... / B. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Board of Health, Whitehall, May 12, 1855. Sir, As the season is now approaching at which Cholera has usually made its appearance in this country, I deem it my duty to call the attention of Local Authorities in the metropolis and throughout the country to the powers at present committed to them by the Legis¬ lature for the removal of those localizing causes of disease which in former years have been found to add to the virulence of the epidemic. I have laid before Parliament Bills for the amendment of the Sanitary Laws, and those Bills have been considered by a Select Com¬ mittee of the House of Commons ; but, inasmuch as they have not yet received the sanction of the Legislature, I must direct attention to the powers given for the removal of nuisances under existing statutes. The principal laws which relate to the removal of nuisances are: 1st. The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848 and 1849- 2d. The Smoke Act of 1853, which is applicable to the metropolis. 3d. The Public Health Act, 1848. 1st. The latter part of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Pre¬ vention Act, 1848, which is most effectual for the suppression of nuisances, is put in force only by an Order in Council during the prevalence of epidemics, and such orders are not now in force. Proceedings for the removal of nuisances under the first-mentioned Act must therefore be taken under the first portion of the Act. The mode of procedure is to address a short intelligible complaint of the nuisance, in writing, to any existing body having authority to make local improvements; as the Town Council, Board or Trustees, or Commissioners for the repair, paving, lighting, cleansing, or draining of the Highways, the Highway Board, or any other similar body; or, in default of any of them, to the Board of Guardians, who must then take proceedings under the 1st section, as follows: The complaint must be signed by two householders, or the nuisance must be certified to the Guardians by the medical or relieving officer of the union or parish, or, if it exists in or about a common lodging- house, by a police constable, or inspector of common lodging-houses. To [20.]