A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware.

  • Ware, Martin.
Date:
1866
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Credit: A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and sanctioned, to be executed, and shall pay the cost thereof out of the poor-rates of such parish or place. Notice of every such meeting must be given as therein provided. And by the “ Nuisances Removal Act, 1855,” surveyors and district surveyors may cleanse all ditches, gutters, drains, and water-courses through any land adjoining any highway, upon compensating the owner (s. 21) ; and whenever any ditch, gutter, &c., used, or partly used, for the conveyance of water, filth, sewage, or other matter, from any house, building, or premises, cannot be rendered innocuous without laying down a sewer along the same, or instead thereof, the local authority is required to lay it down, and keep it in repair, and may assess the houses that benefit by it (s. 22). HOUSE DRAINAGE. City of London. By the “ City Sewers Act, 1848,” all private drains (both in existing and new buildings) communicating with the public sewer are to be repaired and cleansed under the inspection of the surveyor of the com- missioners (s. 57.) The owners or occupiers are to cleanse drains when required; and, in default, the com- missioners may do the work and recover the expenses (s. 58.) The commissioners may compel owners to make drains into the sewers, and to furnish traps, &c.;