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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    Provisions most fre- quently put in force in rural sanitary districts. all or any of the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities, and obli- gations of an urban sanitary authority under that Act. Such invest- ment may be made either unconditionally or subject to any conditions to be specified by the Local Government Board as to the time, portions of the district, or manner during, at, and in which such powers, rights, duties, capacities, and liabilities are to be exercised or attached. But an order of the Local Government Board made on the application of one-tenth of the persons rated to the relief of the poor in any contri- butory place may not invest the rural sanitary authority with any new powers beyond the limit of such contributory place. In like manner, and subject to similar restrictions, the Private Street Works Act, 1892, and any provisions of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, may be put in force in the whole or any part of any rural sanitary district. The above powers of the Local Government Board, under Section 276 of the Public Health Act, 1875, or any enactment applying that section, may, in pursuance of Section 25 (7) of the Local Government Act, 1894, be exercised on the application of the county council, or with respect to any parish or part of a parish on the application of the parish council. The provisions of the Public Health Act which have been most frequently put in force in parts of rural sanitary districts are those contained in Sections 42, 44, 157, and 158, which relate to the cleans- ing and watering of streets and the making of bye-laws for the preven- tion of nuisances and with respect to new buildings. Other sections which are occasionally put in force are Sections 1 169 (2 and 3) and 170, which provide for the sanitary regulation of slaughter-houses ; so much of Section 161 as enables contracts to be made for public lighting, and Sections2 112 and 114, relating to offensive trades. When any application is made to the Local Government Board for the acquisition of any of these powers, it should be accompanied by a statement of the grounds which are considered to render it desirable that these exceptional powers should be given. Circumstances which render alterations in sanitary areas necessary. IV. ALTEEATIONS OF UBBAN AND EUEAL DISTEICTS The growth of population renders alterations from time to time necessary in the areas of urban and rural sanitary districts. For example, a rural village expands into a town ; or a small town becomes so large that it is entitled to be formed into an urban sanitary dis- trict. Or the boundaries of an urban sanitary district require to be extended in consequence of the development of the town, which was originally comprised within the boundaries of the district. In each of these cases, the rural sanitary district is curtailed, when the necessary alteration of areas has been affected. In other cases it becomes de- sirable to dissolve3 an urban sanitary district and add it to some adjoin- 1 As to these sections, see p. 126. 2 As to these sections, see pp. Ill to 113. 3 Prior to August 10,1872, Local Government districts might be formed by resolu- tions of the owners and ratepayers, and in many cases they were so formed, not on sanitary grounds, but with the view of enabling the inhabitants to escape from contributing to the expenses of highways in adjoining parishes. Some of these districts have since been dissolved, and merged in the adjoining urban or rural sanitary districts. But many of them still remain, and some might convenientl be dealt with by county councils under the powers vested in these bodies by the Local Government Act, 1888.