A Manual of public health for the use of local authorities, Medical Officers of Health, and others, / by W.H. Michael, W.H. Corfield, and J.A. Wanklyn ; edited by Ernest Hart.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A Manual of public health for the use of local authorities, Medical Officers of Health, and others, / by W.H. Michael, W.H. Corfield, and J.A. Wanklyn ; edited by Ernest Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. LOCAL AUTHOEITIES. The Public Health Act of last Session has divided the whole of England into sanitary districts, presided over respectively by a local authority, either urban or rural. Urban autho- rities are either in Boroughs, the Town Council, or in Board of Health Districts, Local Boardsof Health, established under the Public Health Act, 1848, or Local Boards under the pro- visions of the Local Government Act,1858,or Commissioners appointed under local Acts, passed for the improvement of the districts over which they act. All other parts of the country are to be in future, so far as public health is con- cerned, under the direction and control of the Board of Guardians of the Union in which the district or parish is situate. But if any part of a Union is in an urban district, then the guardians of such portion do not act in sanitary matters. The guardians have the power to apjDoint com- mittees of their own nujnber, to whom they may delegate for their year of office all their powers. One third of the number of such committee are to be ex officio guardians, if so many exist, and the appointment of such committee to which is delegated all the powers for the time being of the sanitary authority, must be made at a meeting of the guardians specially convened for the purpose. They have likewise the power to appoint parochial committees, either composed wholly of guardians, or of guardians and rate- payers, that is ratepayers of the parish, or contributary place for the sanitary government of which the parochial committee is appointed. This committee is only the agent of the rural sanitary authority appointing it, which remains liable to any duty or obligation devolving upon it, should the parochial committee make default, in its discharge of Saiiitary Districts. Urbau and rural autho- rities. Committees of rural authorities. Parochial Committees- Committee the agent of authority.