The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby.
- Willoughby, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1839 or 1840-1906.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Part II. Unhealthy Dwelling-Houses. Sec. 29. Definitions. Street includes any square, court, alley, or row of houses. (' Dwelling-house means any inhabited building, and includes the site, with yards, gardens, or out- houses belonging thereto. Owner includes (besides the definition in the Lands Clauses Acts) all lessees and mortgagees for terms of which not less than twenty years remain unexpired. Closing Order is one prohibiting the use of premises for human habitation made under Sched. III. Buildings Unfit for Human Habitation. Sec. 30. It shall be the duty of the M.O.H. to represent to the L.A. any dwelling-house so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, and— Sec. 31. (1) If any four or more householders, living in or near any street, complain to the M.O.H. that any house therein is unfit for habitation, he shall forthwith inspect the same, and transmit to the L.A. their complaint, with his opinion. (2) If the L.A. (not being in the County of London, or a R.S.A.) decline or neglect to put in force this part of the Act within three months from the receipt of such complaint, with the opinion or representation of the M.O.H., the complainants may petition the L.G.B. for a local inquiry, and the L.G.B. may after such inquiry order the L.A. to take proceedings. (For Metropolitan and R.S.A. see sec. 45 and 46.) Closing Order and Demolition. Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of every L.A. to cause to be made from time to time inspections of their district, and if any house be found U.H.H, to forthwith proceed against the 0. or 0. for its closure [Sched. III.], (2) whether it be occupied or not, and the Court may impose a penalty < £20, and make a CO. in the forms in Sched. IY., or to the like effect. (3) A CO. having been made, the L.A. shall serve on every occupier or tenant a notice to quit within a period of not less than seven days, who in default shall be liable to a D.P. < £1. The L.A. may make him such reasonable allowance for his expenses in removing as the Court may order, which shall be recoverable by the L.A. from the owner. Sec. 33. (1) A C. 0. having been obtained and not determined by any subsequent order, the L.A. being of opinion that the house has not been, or is not with due diligence being made fit](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0342.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
