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... England , 1855 The Local Government Act , 1858 . An Act to amend the Acts for the Removal of Nuisances and the Prevention of Diseases . The whole Act . except so far as re- lates to the Metropolis . The whole Act , except so far as re ...
... England , 1855 The Local Government Act , 1858 . An Act to amend the Acts for the Removal of Nuisances and the Prevention of Diseases . The whole Act . except so far as re- lates to the Metropolis . The whole Act , except so far as re ...
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... England into rural and urban sanitary dis- tricts , describes the authorities , and lays down their powers . the duties of the officers of local autho- rities . VI . Rating and Borrowing Powers . - This division defines the expenses of ...
... England into rural and urban sanitary dis- tricts , describes the authorities , and lays down their powers . the duties of the officers of local autho- rities . VI . Rating and Borrowing Powers . - This division defines the expenses of ...
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... England and any divisional justices in Ireland . Description of Offences . 3. No person shall mix , colour , stain , or powder , or order or permit any other person to mix , colour , stain , or powder , any article of food with any ...
... England and any divisional justices in Ireland . Description of Offences . 3. No person shall mix , colour , stain , or powder , or order or permit any other person to mix , colour , stain , or powder , any article of food with any ...
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... England . In Ireland the like powers and duties shall be conferred and imposed respectively upon the grand jury of every county and town council of every borough ; provided that the Local Government Board of Ireland sha'l be substituted ...
... England . In Ireland the like powers and duties shall be conferred and imposed respectively upon the grand jury of every county and town council of every borough ; provided that the Local Government Board of Ireland sha'l be substituted ...
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... England in the manner prescribed by the eleventh and twelfth of Victoria , chapter forty - three . In Ireland such penalties and proceedings shall be recoverable , and may be taken with respect to the police district of Dublin ...
... England in the manner prescribed by the eleventh and twelfth of Victoria , chapter forty - three . In Ireland such penalties and proceedings shall be recoverable , and may be taken with respect to the police district of Dublin ...
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Page 192 - drain" shall mean and include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom, with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : The word " sewer" shall mean and include sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 479 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe com mutation rentcharge (if any), and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent...
Page 21 - Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force, and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent ; (3.) Where the food or drug is compounded as in this Act mentioned ; (4.) Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation.
Page 404 - Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit so foul or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health :
Page 404 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 370 - ... and whenever it appears to him that the intervention of such officer is necessary in consequence of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health, or of any overcrowding in a house, he shall forthwith inform the medical officer thereof.
Page 21 - No person shall mix, colour, stain, or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, colour, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, with intent that the same may be sold in that state...
Page 329 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 537 - Sewer includes sewers and drains of every description except drains to which the word drain interpreted as aforesaid applies, and except drains in or under the control of any authority having the management of roads, and not being a local authority under this Act.
Page 370 - He shall enter from day to day, in a book to be provided by the sanitary authority, particulars of his inspections and of the action taken by him in the execution of his duties. He shall also keep a book or books, to be provided by the sanitary authority, so arranged as to form, as far as possible, a continuous record of the sanitary condition of each of the premises in respect of •which any action...