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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    PREFACE TO THE THIED VOLUME In the Preface to the Second Volume, the reader who sought a fuller discussion of the law relating to the Public Health than was contained in the article on ' The Duties of the Medical Officer of Health,' was referred by the Editors to the Third Volume. In presenting this Volume, the Editors desire to state that in selecting the authors of the articles on ' The Public Health Law of England, Ireland, and Scotland,' they deemed it preferable to place the work in the hands of gentlemen of recognised legal ability, each of whom is officially engaged in the administration of the law of that part of the United Kingdom to which his article relates. The adoption of this course necessitates the omission of the names of the authors, but it is thought that this is of less importance than the certainty that the reader will have for his use a work based on actual experience of an exceptional character. In the arrangement of the Volume it has been considered desirable to give a full account of the English law, and in the sections relating to Ireland and Scotland to indicate more particularly the differences which exist between the law of those countries and that of England. October, 1894.