Law Relating to Public Health and Local Government

THE

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT,

1872;

AND THE

RELATIVE ACTS OF THE SESSION
35 & 36 VICT.

WITH NOTES; AND THE ORDERS AND CIRCULARS OF
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.

BEING

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION OF

THE LAW RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.

W. CUNNINGHAM GLEN,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,

Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Cxcellent Majesty.

KNIGHT AND CO., 90, FLEET STREET,
Publishers by Authority to the Local Government Board.

1873.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE.

THE publication of this work, as a supplement to the sixth edition of the 'Law relating to Public Health and Local Government,' has been announced for some months past. Had I published it immediately after the passing of the Public Health Act, 1872, I could have done little more than string together the statutes which are contained in the work, and place an index at the end for convenience of reference. I preferred, however, to wait till I had had some experience of the working of the principal Act contained in the volume before placing my work in the hands of the printer, and I have thereby been enabled to give practical value to the notes which I have appended to the several new sanitary enactments.

There was another reason why I delayed the work, and that was that I might include in it the several orders that the Local Government Board have now issued under the Public Health Act, 1872. This I have done in the Appendix, and I have also added the circulars which that Board addressed to the Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities shortly after the passing of that Act, and the Regulations issued under the Metropolis Water Act, 1871.

In order to facilitate reference, I have added, after the table of contents, a table of the cases decided by the Courts since the last edition of my principal work was published, with references to the various law reports in which they will be found.

5, Elm Court, Temple,

25th February, 1873.

W. C. G.

CONTENTS.

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