The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts, 1848 & 1849; (11 & 12 Vict. cap. 123 12 & 13 Vict. cap. 111) with practical notes and appendix ... of the general board of health, with index - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... division, or place in which such removal shall have ben made (r). Sect. 2. In Scotland certain public officers, upon re (r) The above provisions relate only to the removal of nuisances after they are found to exist and to be prejudicial or injurious to health. No provision is made by this Act for the prevention of a nuisance; but the Public Health Act, 1848, 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, enables the local boards of health to provide proper places as receptacles of filth, and to cover up open drains, ditches, and the like, within their jurisdiction. Boards of health, however, will only be constituted in towns and districts in which there is a large or dense population, and then only when one-tenth of the inhabitants of the place, rated to the relief of the poor, agree to petition the general board of health, or when it shall appear from the returns of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages, that the deaths registered annually in the place, in a period of not less than seven years, have on an average, exceeded the proportion of twenty-three to a thousand of the population. The more effectually to provide for the prevention of nuisances, and to improve the public health in parishes in which there is no local board of health, it is enacted by the 50th section of the statute in question, that if it shall appear to a majority of not less than three-fifths of the rated inhabitants of any parish containing less than two thousand inhabitants on the then last census, in which such Act shall not have been applied, assembled at a public meeting, that it would contribute to the health and convenience of the inhabitants, that any pool, place, open ditch, sewer, drain, or place, containing or used for the collection of any drainage, filth, water, matter, or thing, ...