Lectures on sanitary law / by A. Wynter Blyth.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Lectures on sanitary law / by A. Wynter Blyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the present we will confine our attention to English Sanitary law (exclusive of the Metropolitan Sanitary law). The Urban Districts in England are either (P. H., 1875, sect. 6) boroughs or Improvement Act Dis- tricts or Local Government Board Districts. These terms are defined in Section 4— ' A borough means any place, for the time being, subject to an Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, 5 and 6 William iv. c. 76.' An Improvement Act District is a district formed before the passing of the Public Health Act, 1875, having no part of its area within the area of a borough, or of a Local Government District, and governed by commissioners, trustees, or other per- sons invested by a Local Act, with powers of town government and rating. ' Local Government District' means any area sub- ject to the jurisdiction of a Local Board constituted in pursuance of the Local Government Acts: these were the Local Government Act of 1858 and its amendments, which could be adopted by places of an urban character, and conferred powers of local government, the powers being exercised by a ' Local Formation of Board.' Besides these Local Government Board Local Govern- . . . . , . „ • n i ment Districts. Districts, m existonco at the time 01 passmg oi the Public Health Act, new districts can be formed under Sections 271 and 272. The first of these Sections gives power to the Local Government Board to constitute by order, any rural district, a local government district, in Urban Districts.