The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

THE BANITABY ACT, 1866.

This Aat, to which we last week called public atten-
tion. contains provisioes of so novel sod so interesting •
nature that we think A right, especially at the present
time, when the authorities of every town in the county
have the Act under consideration, to give further pro-
minenee to some of its more important provisions. We
propose to do this in • popular and easily intelligible
foam. Any person who wishes to take action under the
Act should, of course, hive recourse to and be guided
by the very words of the Act Itself.
Seetion I gives it. short title "The Sanitary Act,
1866." It. register-number in the statute-book is the
29th and 30th of Victoria, chap. 90.
Section 4 gives power to any sewer authority (that is,
as the case nisy be, the Town Coinail, or the Commis-
sioners under • local Act, or the Vestry) to form • com-
mittee ails own members and other. to act on ita behalf.
Seinen 5 gives to the mower authority in certain eases
the power of forming any part of its district into •
special drainage district, and of levying • rate for
sewage purposes within such district.
Section 6 gives to any number of the inliabitantafof
such district (nog being lees than 20) tne power of ap.
pealing against the formation of such special drainage
district to • Secretary of State, who, after due inquiry,
may, if kte thinks proper, annul or modify the decision
of the sewer authority. .

Seetioe 8 gives wrier to any owner or occupier within
the district of the sewer authority to empty Lis drains
in • proper manner into the drains of the sewer autho-
rittion 9 give' power to any owner or occupier outside
the district of the sewer authority to empty his drains
into the drains of the sewer authority, upon such terms
as may be agreed upon; and in case of dispute, the
i matter s to be settled by two magistrates, or by arbi-
tration.

lieetion 10 empowers the sewer authority to call upon
any person living within 100 feet of coy public sewer to
make • drain from his boase to the public newer; if the
distance is more than 100 feet, it may call upon him to
empty his drains into • covered cesspool. If such per-
son fails to eomply, the work may be done by the sewer
authority, and the expenses may be recovered in • sum.
mazy manner.
. . .

Section 11 gives to the sewer authority power to
supply its district with water by digging wells, making
reservoirs, and doing any other necessary sot.
Section 16 gives power to the chief dither of police
within the district of any noisome° authority, by dine-
lion of a Secretary of State, to deal with onasanoes, if
the nuisance authority is proved to have neglected its
doty.
The officer of polies may not, however, enter any
house for this purpose without either the so:intent of
the occupier or • magistratte's warrant.
Section 19 adds to the list of legal nuisances—(l)any
house or part of • house so overcrowded as to be
dangerous to the health of the inmates; (2) any dirty,
ill•ventilated or overcrowded factory or workshop; (3)
any fireplac• or furnace not consuming its own smote,
so far as is practicable.
Section 20 imposes upon the nuisanoe authority the
duty of Inspecting its district from time to time, with •
view to the abatement of nuisances.

Section 22 gives power to the nuisance authority, in
certain ewes, to order any owner or °soupier to cleanse
and disinfect his house and anything in it, under •
penalty of les. • day for disobedienoe ; and allows the
nuisance authority, in 011110 of default, to do the work
itself and recover the expenses from the owner or
occupier. Where, in the opinion of the nuisance
authority, the owner or occupier is unable, from poverty
or otherwiee, to cleanse and disinfect his house, it may,
at its own expense, and with the consent of the owner
or occupier, do the work itself.
Section 24 empower' the nuisance authority to main•
lath carriages for the conveyance to • hospital or to
their own boniest of persons Buffering under any con-
fetti or infectious dines,..ion 25 exposes to • penalty, not exceeding I:5,
any person who, without notice to the owner or drieer,
enters any pulthe:conveyance while suffering under any
dangerous infectious disorder. No owner or driver need
oarry any inch persons without being first paid all losses
and expenses.
Section 26 empowers any magistrate, under certain
circumstances, to order the conveyance to a hospital of
any person suffering under any dangerous contagious ir
infectious disease who is without proper lodging or se-
eommodation, or lodged in • room occupied by more
than one family, or who is on board any ship or vessel.
Section 27 and 28 empowered the Duilalloo authority
to provide • proper place for the reception of theoorpere
of periwigs who have died of any contagious or infectious
disease, and of corpse' awaiting • poet melees examina-
tion.

Section 29 empower' the nuisance authority, with the
eminent of the l'rivy Council, to make rules for remov-
ing to and keeping in a hospital auy person arivieg
within its district in a ship or boat and suffering under
• contagious or infectious disorder.
. . .

Section 90 extend. the power of the nuisance authority
In certain cases to ships and boats not lying within its
distriet.

Section 35 empowers the nuisance authority in certain
cases to make regulations for (I) limiting the number of
persons who may occupy a house or part of • house
which is let in lodging's ; (2) the registration of such
h0n...; (3) inspecting and cleansing such houses (4)
providing privies and other appliances and means of
cleanliness for such houses, and for cleansing and
ventilating the common parser's and staircase.; (5)
cleansing and limewhiting such premises.
Section 36 provides for the temporary or permanent
dosing of such houses under certain circumstances.
Section 37 gives to the sewer authority (in the
metropolis, to 'the nuisanos authority) power to provide
district hospitals or temporary places for the reception
of the sick.

Section 38 exposes to • penalty not exceeding KS,
any person suffering from any dangerous infectious
disorder who wilfully exposes himself, without proper
precaution against spreading snob disorder, in my street,
public place, or public conveyance, and to • like penalty
the owner or driver of any public conveyance who
knowingly conveys such sufferer and does not
immediately afterwards provide for its disinfection.
Section 39 exposes to • penalty not exceeding Effi,
any person who knowingly lets • house or pert of a
house or a room in which any person suffering from any
dangerous infections disorder ham been, without first
having it and all articles therein disinfected to the
satidaction of • medical man.
Bastion 49 is so important that we madder it desirable
to give it in :—" Wbere complaint is made to one of
Her Majesty's principal Secretariee of State that • sewer
authority or local Board of Health has made default in
providing its district with sufficient sower', or in the
maintenance of existing *ewers, or in providing its
districts with a supply of water in mass were danger
arias to the health of the inhabitants from the in-
sufficiency or unwholosomenem of the seating supply of
water, and a proper supply can be got at • reasonable
cast, or that • nuisance authority has made default in
enforcing the provisions of the Nuisance Removal Aets,
or that • local Board has made default is enforcing the
proviaions of the Local Governmeat Act, the said
Sowthiri of State, if satiated, alter due inquiry made
by him, tbst the authority has been guilty of the alleged
default, shall make an order limiting a time for the
performance of its duty in the matter of such complaint,
and if the said duty is not performed by the time
limited in the order the said Seeretary of Stale shall
appoint some person to perform the same, and shall by
ora.r direct that the expenses of performing the same,
together with • renewable remuneration to the person
appointed foe superintending such per formanee, and
amounting to • sum speeded in the order, together
with the carts of the preperdings, she il be paid by the
authority in default; and any or der made for the
payment of such costs and expenee. may b. removed
Into the Court of Queen'. Benob ow be enforced is
the asses manner as if the same mere an order of such
Court."

-11;e-tion52 briar outgrardAl .innd and meeting vessels
within the proowl 01 tlw 'elnarantine AM, and of all
orders issued by the Privy Canumil under that AM.
Section 53 exposes to penalty h.per day soy
person who does not at. proper Interval., after due
notice, remove his mar.4ye and other refuse matter from
mews, stables, or oth is premiss&
Beetles' 56-69 im/4te,lp special provisions applicable to
Ireland.