Report by the committee ... appointed to consdier any bills that may be brought into Parliament for the improvement of the health of towns, and the applicability of such measures to Scotland / [Ed. by W.P. Alison].

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Date:
1848
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Credit: Report by the committee ... appointed to consdier any bills that may be brought into Parliament for the improvement of the health of towns, and the applicability of such measures to Scotland / [Ed. by W.P. Alison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water, undertaken by the Councils or Town Commissioners to be subject to the approval of the said Board. II. The Commissioners of Health and of Public Works are to appoint physicians or surgeons of skill and experience, to be Officers of Health in the towns in which these acts shall be enforced, with salaries not exceeding i?800, whose duty shall be “ to ascertain the existence of diseases within their “ prescribed limits, and especially of epidemic and conta- “ gious diseases, and to point out any nuisances or local “ causes likely to cause or continue such diseases, or other- “ wise injure the health of the inhabitants ; and to point out “ the best means for the ventilation of churches, chapels, “ schools, registered lodging-houses, or other public build- “ ings, and from time to time, as required by the Town Com- “ missioners, to report on those matters, and to perform such “ other duties of a like nature as may be required of them.” The Councils or Town Commissioners are to appoint-— subject to the approval of the Board of Health and Public Works—Engineers to act as Local Surveyors, and likewise Inspectors of Nuisances—the two offices being combined when it is thought expedient—with salaries, for the execution of these acts. III. The Councils or Town Commissioners, acting under this system of inspection and control, and with these provi¬ sions for their counsel and aid, are required to have maps of their districts carefully made, and open to inspection ; with levels for sewerage and drainage ; and are invested with full powers to enforce, by suitable penalties, regulations on the following subjects :— 1. As to all sewers and drains, and privies, ashpits, or cesspools connected with them,—which, when public, are to be vested in them—when private, shall be under their control, and in both cases shall be provided with traps or cover¬ ings, and shall be kept in repair, and efficient, and hindered from becoming nuisances ; and in the case of all new streets or buildings, shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the Commissioners.