Compendium of Irish sanitary law : containing the Sanitary Act, 1866, and the acts incorporated therewith so far as the same relate to Ireland ; the Acts relating to workshops, common lodging houses, and the adulteration of food and drink ; with explanatory notes, a collection of legal decisions in sanitary cases / by John Ouseley Byrne.

  • Byrne, John Ouseley.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Compendium of Irish sanitary law : containing the Sanitary Act, 1866, and the acts incorporated therewith so far as the same relate to Ireland ; the Acts relating to workshops, common lodging houses, and the adulteration of food and drink ; with explanatory notes, a collection of legal decisions in sanitary cases / by John Ouseley Byrne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Page Nuisance Authority, (continued): To require, on certificate of Medical Practitioner, the owner or occupier to cleanse and disinfect premises and articles therein likely to retain infection, ... ... ... '9 On default of the owner or occupier to cause the premises to be cleansed and disinfected, ... ... ... ... 19 And may recover the expenses summarily, ... ... 19 But in case of poverty may, with the consent of the owner or occupier, cleanse and disinfect at its own expense, ... 19 May provide a proper place and apparatus for disinfecting in- fected articles free of charge, ... ... ••■ 20 May provide and maintain carriages for conveyance of persons suffering from contagious disease to hospital or to their own homes, ... .. ... ... ••• ••• 21 May give general authority to its clerk or other officer to appear in and institute legal proceedings on its behalf, ... ... 40 Form of resolution giving general authority to clerk or officer to take legal proceedings, ... ... ... ... 4° May provide a place for the reception of dead bodies for post mortem examination other than a workhouse or a mortuary house, ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 May lay down rules and inflict a penalty, with the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, for removal to hospital and keeping there persons brought into the district by any ship or boat who are infected with dangerous infectious disorder, ... 24 May require owner or occupier of premises to pay costs and ex- penses, ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 May, if not a Board of Guardians, make regulations in certain cases as to lodging houses which are not within the provisions of the Common Lodging Houses Act, ... ... ... 28 And may impose a penalty for breach of those regulations, ... 29 May if not a Board of Guardians, adopt the provisions of the Act to encourage the establishment of baths and washhouses, 37 Incorporated, ... ... ... ... ... 38, 57 On default of Nuisance Authority, Lord Lieutenant may, after inquiry, appoint a person to perform the duty in respect to which default is made, at the expense of the Authority, ... 41 May, if not a Board of Guardians, make extra rate, if neces- sary, for carrying Acts into effect, ... ... ... 54 May, if not a Board of Guardians, exercise the powers of Local Boards under the Local Government Act, ... 37, 57 May appoint committee of their own body, ... ... 89 May execute Justice's order for abatement of nuisances when owner or occupier not known, ... ... 102 May sell by auction matters removed by the Nuisance Authority in pursuance of the Act, ... ... 102 May lay down sewer where watercourse used as a drain, ... 107