RELATING TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, IN RELATION TO SANITARY AND OTHER TOGETHER WITH THE Public Health Act, 1848, THE Local Government Act, 1858, AND THE OTHER INCORPORATED ACTS. BY WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM GLEN, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AND OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD. LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 1858. Enscribed to THOMAS LEVERTON DONALDSON, PH.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KIEL, M.I.B.A., DEAN, AND PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND OF VARIOUS OTHER FOREIGN ACADEMIES OF THE FINE ARTS, AND FOR TEN YEARS CHAIRMAN OF THE LATE COURT OF SEWERS FOR THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND PART OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ETC. ETC. ETC., AS A MARK OF THE HIGH ESTIMATION IN WHICH HE IS HELD IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. ON the opening of Parliament, on the 23rd November, 1847, Her Majesty's Commissioners, in the Speech which they delivered to the Lords and Commons then assembled, announced that Her Majesty had thought fit to appoint a Commission to report on the best means of improving the health of the Metropolis; and, in Her Majesty's name, recommended to the earnest attention of both Houses the measures which it was intended to lay before them relating to the public health. The sanitary condition of the people is a subject which all must look upon as of the first importance to the well-being of the nation; for it is certain that there can be no more efficacious means of stopping the progress of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases than by attending to the drainage and sanitary condition of towns. Her Majesty's declaration in favour of sanitary reform resulted in the passing, on the 31st August following, of the Public Health Act, 1848, |