Volume 3

A treatise on hygiene and public health / edited by Thomas Stevenson and Shirley F. Murphy.

Date:
1892-1894
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Credit: A treatise on hygiene and public health / edited by Thomas Stevenson and Shirley F. Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I AREAS AND AUTHORITIES FOR SANITARY PURPOSES I. LOCAL AREAS FOR SANITARY PURPOSES The whole of England and Wale soutside the County of London is divided into administrative counties and county boroughs. The ad- ministrative counties will, under the Local Government Act, 1894, after the appointed day, i.e. the second Thursday after November 8, 1894, or such later date or dates as the Local Government Board may fix, be divided into county districts, some of which will be urban, and the others rural districts. These districts, subject to changes made by or in pursuance of the Local Government Act, 1894, will consist of sanitary districts constituted for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1875. Under that Act the whole of England and Wales, with the exception of the metropolis, was divided into sanitary districts, under the jurisdiction of sanitary authorities. These districts were of two kinds : urban sanitary districts and rural sanitary districts. Urban sanitary districts consisted of (1) Municipal Boroughs, (2) Local Government districts, and (3) Improvement Act districts. Prior to the passing of the Local Government Act, 1888, there were several muni- cipal boroughs which did not of themselves constitute entire urban sanitary districts; but by Section 52 of that Act the Local Govern- ment Board were required to deal with these cases in such a manner as to make the borough and the urban sanitary district conterminous; and at the present time the only municipal borough which does not fulfil this requirement is Folkestone, a portion of which forms part of the Local Government district of Sandgate. Kural sanitary districts consisted of such portions of poor law unions as were not comprised in urban sanitary districts. The Local Government Act, 1894, as from the appointed day, will to some extent modify these arrangements. County boroughs will con- tinue to be urban sanitary districts; but all other urban sanitary dis- tricts will be called urban districts, and rural sanitary districts will be called rural districts. Where a rural sanitary district is on the appointed day situate in more than one administrative county, such portion there- of as is situate in each such county will, save as is otherwise provided by or in pursuance of that or any other Act, be as from the appointed day a separate rural district. Every rural district will consist of one or more parishes. In the great majority of cases the district will consist of several parishes. Prior to the appointed day many parishes will be situate partly in urban and partly in rural districts; but as from that day the part of any such parish in each district will become a separate parish, subject to any alterations made by or in pursuance of the Act. Administrative counties and county boroughs. County districts. Sanitary districts. Effect of Local Government Act, 1894, on sanitary districts. Rural parishes.