[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority.

  • Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority (Cardiff, Wales) n 2006181154.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIBRARY i PORT HEALTH SERVICE. I—CONSTITUTION, LIMITS OF JURISDICTION, ETC., OF THE CARDIFF PORT HEALTH AUTHORITY. The Cardiff Port Sanitary (now Health) Authority was constituted in 1882 by a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board (now the Ministry of Health), which was made under section 287 of the Public Health Act, 1875. By a Provisional Order, dated 27th July, 1893, the limits of jurisdiction of the Authority were extended, and on 15th September, 1894, an Order, which came into operation on 9th November, 1894, ■was made constituting the Authority permanently. Section 5 of the Public Health Act, 1936, which came into operation on 1st October, 1937, provided that Port Sanitary Districts and Port Sanitary Authorities constituted under any previous Act are to be known as and styled Port Health Districts and Port Health Authorities. The Cardiff City Council, as the Cardiff Port Health Authority, on 26th July, 1937, decided to ask the Minister of Health to make an Order amending the Order constituting the Authority, so as to conform with the Local Government Act, 1933, and the Public Health Act, 1936. Under the Order of 1894 the Council of the Borough (now City) of Cardiff was constituted the Port Sanitary Authority for the area. The Order provided that the “ 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 thfe acts of every such Committee shall, unless otherwise directed by the Port Sanitary Authority, be submitted to such Authority for approval.” The Order also provided that a Committee so appointed shall in no case be authorised to borrow money or to issue any precept for contributions or to enter into any contract.” The jurisdiction of the Authority extends to so much of the Port of Cardiff as is comprised within the following lines :—“ A straight line drawn south from the seaward extremity of the common boundary of the Parishes of Sully and Lavernock to the boundary of the said Port and a line following and coincident with the boundary of the said Port from its commencement at the River Rumney to the point at which the straight line firstly hereinbefore mentioned meets such boundary, together with the water of the said Port of Cardiff within such limits, and the place or places for the time being appointed as the Customs Boarding Station or Stations 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 diseases issued under the authority of the Statutes in that behalf, and the docks, basins, harbours, creeks, rivers, channels, roads, bays and streams belonging to such part of the said Port.” The district therefore includes the waters contiguous to Penarth Urban and Cardiff Rural Districts. The Authority have all the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities and obliga- tions of an LJrban Sanitary Authority under certain sections of the Public Health Acts ” so far as those sections are applicable to waters within the jurisdiction of ” the Authority “ or to ships coming or being within the said jurisdiction, or to persons upon any such ship or brought by any such ship within the said jurisdiction, or to goods or things upon any such ship, or to goods or things landed from any such ship, and being within the said jurisdiction, and which in the opinion of the said Authority or their Medical Officer of Health requires to be disinfected or destroyed.”