The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

" APPENDIX.

" POWERS OF LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH, WHICH
OUGHT TO BE STRINGENTLY EXERCISED AT THIS TIME.
" 1. UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.
"To provide that al streets within the district, in-
cluding the foot-pavements, are properly swept, cleansed,
and watered, and the dust, ashes, rubbish, fiith, dung,
and soil therein collected, and removed. (Sec. 55.)
" To provide that all drains and water-closets, privies,
cesspools, and ash-pits are constructed and kept so as
not to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and to give
authority in writing to the surveyor to enter and examine
any premises with reference to the state of the drain,
water-closet, privy, cesspool, or ash-pit. (Sec. 54.)
" To drain, cleanse, cover, or fill up, at the owner's or
occupiers expense, all pools, ponds, open ditches,
sewers, drains, and places used fur the collection of any
drainage, flab, water, matter, or thing of an offensive
nature or likely to be prejudicial to health, with power
to pay the whole or part of these expenses out of the
general or special district rates. (Sec. 58 )
"To order the removal, within 24 hours, of any nui-
sance arising from swine, kept so as to be a nuisance to
any person, (Sec. 59.)
" To pr )ceed agai n 4 any person who suffers waste or
stagnant water to remain in any part of a dwelling-house
for 24 hours after notice, or who allows the contents of
any water-c'oset, privy, or cesspool to overflow or soak
therefrom. (Sec. 59.)
" To take proceedings against the owners or occupiers
of any houses wiamb, on the certificate of the officer of
health, shell appear to be in such a filthy or unwhole-
some condition that the health of any person is affected
or endangered thereby ; and to direct the whitewashing,
cleansing, or purifying thereof where this would tend to
prevent or check infectious or contagioui disease. (Sec.6o.)
"To prevent the business of a blood-boiler, bone-
boiler, fellmonger, slaughterer of cattle, horses, oranimals
of any description, soap-boiler or tallow-welter, tripe-
boiler, or other noxious or offensive trade, business, or
manufacture being newly established in any building or
ulace, without the consent of the local board, unless the
General Board shall otherwise direct. (Sec. 64 )
"To prevent the occupation of cellars as dwelling-
houses, unless certain conditions be attended to. (5ec.67.)
"To provide a proper and sufficient supply of water
for their district if the Water works Company established
within such district are not able and willing to furnish
such a supply upcn terms certified to be reasonable by
the General Board of Health. (Sec. 75.)
" To require that houses be supplied with water, if
such supply can be furnished at a rate not exceeding 2d.
per week. (Sec. 76.)
" To cause all existing public cisterns, pumps, wells,
&c., used for the gratuitous supply of water to the in-
habitants to be maintained and plentifully eupplied with
water ; or to substitute and maintain other works
equally convenient • or to construct asy number of new
cisterns, pumps, L., for the gratuitous supply of any
public bathe or washhouses established otherwise than
for private profit, or supported out of any poor or borough
rates. (Sec. 78.)
"To recover penalties from any person fouling any
water under the management or control of the local
board, (Sec. 80 )

" 2. UNDER THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT, 1855.
"To appoint, or join with the other local authorities
in appointing a sanitary inspector, a power of entering
into premises being given for the following purposes :
" 1. To ground proceedings.
" 2. To examine the same where nuisances exist, to
ascertain the course of drains, and to inspect works
ordered by justices to be done.

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" 3. To remove a nuisance in case of non-compliance
with order, or to inspect articles of food, &c.
" Where a nuisance exists a justice shall, on com•
plaint, require the person causing it, or, if he cannot be
discovered, the owner or occupier of the premises where
the nuisance is, to abate it, and in case of non com-
pliance such person is liable to certain penalties. Where
the person causing the nuisance and the owner or occu-
pier of the premises are unknown the order of the magis-
trate may be addressed to and executed by the local
authority.

" Aei nuisance removed may be sold after five days'
notice, but where that delay would be prejudicial to
health juitices may direct an immediate removal.
" To provide that when any ditch, gutter, drain, or
water-course is a nuisance, and cannot be rendered info•
coons without a sewer or other structure along the same
or instead of it, such sewer, &c., be laid down, and to
keep it in repair; and assess parties using the ditch, gut-
ter, drain or water-course as a means of sewerage to the
expense thereof, such payment to be either immediate,
annual, or extending over a term of years.
"To enforce the penalties where any person or coin.
pany may fool water with gas washings--the penalty
thereof being 2001., and(in addition) a daily penalty of
201. (imposed by the 25th sec.)
"To provide that all meat, vegetables, flour, &0., ex-
posed for sale, on their way to, or in the course of being
prepared for sale, or landed from any vessel in any port
in England, be duly examined by the sanitary inspector,
and if in his opinion they are unfit for human food, to
have them seized and taken before a justice, who shall
make order thereon.

"To see that complaint be made to justices of nuisances
arising from noxious trades or manufactures, and of any
house so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the
persons causing the same being on conviction, liable to
penalties.

43. UNDER THE ACTS FOR THE WELL ORDERING} OV
COMMON LODGINOHOUSES (14 AND 15 VICTORIA, CHAP.
28, AND 16 AND 11 VICTORIA, CHAP 41.)
"To give all keepers of common lodginghouses notice
of the Act, calling upon them to register their houses ;
the local authorities are to keep this register, entering
therein the particulars required by the Act. From time
to time, and as circumstances may require, to make re-
gulations for fixing the number of lodgers who may be
received in such registered houses, for promoting cleanli-
ness and ventilation therein, and with respect to the in.
enaction thereof—such regulations to be confirmed by
one of the Secretaries of State, and to enloroe these re-
gulations by the imposition of penalties. To see, by
their officers, who have free access to these houses at all
times, that the provisions of the Act as regards cleanli-
ness,
"To &c., are duly carried out.
see that no house is need as a common lodging.
house until the same has been inspected and approved as
fit for the intended purpose, and registered, and to re-
fuse registration unless the person applying can produce
a certificate of good character.
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compensation to the owner for any loss or injury made
out of the poor-rate.
"On receiving a certificate of the existence of nuisances
under the Nuisances Removal Act, to order (when ne-
cessary) the causes of complaint certified to be removed.
"To take care that no lo,iginghouse is kept by any,
person disqualified by three convictions under the Act.

* Subsequently to the epidemic of 1854 this companY
has had recourse to parer sources of supply.
t Report of the'Committee for Scientific Inquiries in re-
lation to the cholera epidemic of 1853-4.

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SCENE AT AN EXECUTION.— A horrible scene (says the
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to the Government, praying that executions may no
longer be public, have been numerously signed.