[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority.

  • Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority (Cardiff, Wales) n 2006181154.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cardiff Port Sanitary Jfutf^ority. TOWN HALL, CARDIFF. TO THE CHAIRMAN AJVD MEMBERS OF THE CARDIFF PORT SAMITARY AUTHORITY. GeX'J'LEMEN,— I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1898. The Port Sanitary District of Cardiff was constituted in the year 1882, by a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board, which was subsequently confirmed by Parliament. In this Order the boundaries of the District are defined as follows :— “So much of the Port of Cardiff as lies between the River Eumney and “ Lavernock Point; together with the waters of the said Port within “ such limits, and the place for the time being appointed as the Customs “ Boarding Station for such part of the said Port, and every other “ place for the time being appointed for the mooring or anchoring “ of ships for such part of the said Port, under any regulations for “ the prevention of the spread of disease issued under the authority “of the Statutes in that behalf; and the watersides, docks, basins, “ and creeks of and belonging to such part of the said Port.” By a Provisional Order, dated 27th July, 1893, the limits of Jurisdiction of the Cardifl’ Port Sanitary Authority were extended, and on the 15th September, 1894, an Order of the Board was issued permanently constituting the Authority. This Order came into operation on the 9th November, 1894, and contains the following provisions:— SECTION I.—CONSTITUTION OF PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY. AimcLE 1.—This Order shall come into operation on the Ninth day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-four, unless it shall become Provisional, and until this Order comes into operation the said Order dated the Twenty-seventh day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-three, shall continue in force. Article 2.—The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough of Cardiff, acting by the Council, as the said Urban Sanitary Authority, shall be per- manently constituted the Port Sanitary Authority for the part of the said Port of Cardiff, hereinafter described. Article 3.—The Port Sanitary Authority may from time to time appoint committees consisting of Members of such Authority for the exercise of any powers which, in the opinion of such Authority, can be properly exercised by committees, but the acts of every such committee shall, unless otherwise directed by the Port Sanitary Authority, be submitted to such Authority for approval.