Public Health Act 1875
PART I
Preliminary.
1Short title.
2Extent of Act.
3Division of Act into parts.
4Definitions.
PART IIAUTHORITIES FOR EXECUTION OF ACT.
CONSTITUTION OF DISTRICTS AND AUTHORITIES.
5Urban and rural sanitary districts.
6Description of urban districts and urban authorities.
7Incorporation of local boards and improvement commissioners.
8Election of local boards.
9Description of rural districts and rural authorities.
10Powers and duties of urban authorities.
11Powers and duties of rural authorities.
12Vesting of property in local authorities.
PART IIISANITARY PROVISIONS.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
Regulations as to Sewers and Drains.
13Sewers vested in local authority.
14Power to purchase sewers.
15Maintenance and making of sewers.
16Powers for making sewers.
17Sewage to be purified before being discharged into streams.
18Alteration and discontinuance of sewers.
19Cleansing sewers.
20Map of system of sewerage.
21Power of owners and occupiers within district to drain into sewers of local authority.
22Use of sewers by owners and occupiers without district.
23Power of local authority to enforce drainage of undrain houses.
24Power of local authority to require houses to be drained new sewers.
25Penalty on building house without drains in urban district.
26Penalty on unauthorised building over sewers and under streets in urban district.
Disposal of Sewage.
27Powers for disposing of sewage.
28Power to agree for communication of sewers with sewers of adjoining district.
29Power to deal with land appropriated to sewage purposes.
30Contribution to works under agreement for supply distribution of sewage.
31Application of 27 & 28 Vict. c.114 to works for supply sewage.
As to Sewage Works without District.
32Notice to be given before commencing sewage works without district.
33In case of objection, works not to be commenced without sanction of Local Government Board.
34Inspector to hold inquiry and report to Local Government Board.
PRIVIES, WATERCLOSETS, &C.
35Penalty on building houses without privy accommodation.
36Power of local authority to enforce provision of privy accommodation for houses.
37As to earthclosets.
38Privy accommodation for factories.
39Public necessaries.
40Drains, privies, &c. to be properly kept.
41Examination of drains, privies, &c. on complaint of nuisance.
SCAVENGING AND CLEANSING.
Regulations as to Streets and Houses.
42Local authority to provide for cleansing of streets and removal of refuse.
43Penalty on neglect of local authority to remove refuse, &c.
44Power of local authority to make byelaws imposing duty of cleansing, &c. on occupier.
45Power to provide receptacles for deposit of rubbish.
46Houses to be purified, on certificate of officer of health, or of two medical practitioners.
47Penalty in respect of certain nuisances on premises.
Offensive Ditches and Collections of Matter.
48Provision for obtaining order for cleansing offensive ditches lying near to or forming the boundaries of districts.
49Removal of filth on certificate of inspector of nuisances.
50Periodical removal of manure from mews and other premises.
WATER SUPPLY.
Powers of Local Authority in relation to Supply of Water.
51General powers for supplying district with water.
52Restriction on construction of waterworks by local authority.
53As to construction of reservoirs.
54Power of carrying mains.
55As to supply of water.
56Power to charge water rates and rents.
57Incorporation of certain provisions of Waterworks Clauses Acts.
58Power to supply water by measure.
59Register of meter to be evidence.
60Penalty for injuring meters.
61Power to supply water to authority of adjoining district.
62Local authority may require houses to be supplied with water in certain cases.
63Powers of water company for supplying water to local authority.
64Vesting of public cisterns, &c. in local authority.
65Water for public baths, or trading or manufacturing purposes.
66Duty of urban authority to provide fire-plugs.
67Agreements with universities.
Provisions for Protection of Water.
68Penalty for causing water to be corrupted by gas washings.
69Local authority may take proceedings to prevent pollution of streams.
70Power to close polluted wells, &c.
REGULATION OF CELLAR DWELLINGS AND LODGING HOUSES.
Occupation of Cellar Dwellings.
71Prohibition of occupying cellar dwellings.
72Existing cellar dwellings only to be let or occupied on certain conditions.
73Penalty on persons offending against enactment.
74Definition of occupying as a dwelling.
75Power to close cellars in case of two convictions.
Common Lodging-houses.
76Registers of common lodging-houses to be kept.
77All common lodging-houses to be registered, and to be kept only by registered keepers.
78Local authority may refuse to register houses.
79Notice of registration to be affixed to houses.
80Byelaws to be made by local authority.
81Power to local authority to require supply of water to houses.
82Limewashing of houses.
83Power to order reports from keepers of houses receiving vagrants.
84Keepers to give notice of fever, &c. therein.
85As to inspection.
86Offences by keepers of houses.
87Evidence as to family in proceedings.
88Conviction for third offence to disqualify persons from keeping common lodging-house.
89Interpretation of " common lodging-house ".
Byelaws as to Houses let in Lodgings.
90Local Government Board may empower local authority to make byelaws as to lodging-houses.
NUISANCES.
91Definition of nuisances.
92Duty of local authority to inspect district for detection of nuisances.
93Information of nuisances to local authority.
94Local authority to serve notice requiring abatement of nuisance.
95On non-compliance with notice complaint to be made to justice.
96Power of court of summary jurisdiction to make order dealing with nuisance.
97Order of prohibition in case of house unfit for human habitation.
98Penalty for contravention of order of court.
99Appeal against order.
100In certain cases order may be addressed to local authority.
101Power to sell manure, &c.
102Power of entry of local authority.
103Penalty for disobedience of order.
104Costs and expenses of execution of provisions relating to nuisances.
105Power of individual to complain to justice of nuisance.
106Power of officer of police to proceed in certain cases against nuisances.
107Local authority may take proceedings in superior court for abatement of nuisances.
108Power to proceed where cause of nuisance arises without district.
109Provision in case of two convictions for overcrowding.
110Provision as to ships.
111Provisions of Act relating to nuisances not to affect other remedies.
OFFENSIVE TRADES.
112Restriction on establishment of offensive trade in urban district.
113Byelaws as to offensive trades in urban district.
114Duty of urban authority to complain to justice of nuisance arising from offensive trade.
115Power to proceed where nuisance arises from offensive trade carried on without district.
UNSOUND MEAT, &C.
116Power of medical officer of health to inspect meat, &c.
117Power of justice to order destruction of unsound meat, &c.
118Penalty for hindering officer from inspecting meat, &c.
119Search warrant may be granted by a justice.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND HOSPITALS.
Provisions against Infection.
120Duty of local authority to cause premises to be cleansed and disinfected.
121Destruction of infected bedding, &c.
122Provision of means of disinfection.
123Provision of conveyance for infected persons.
124Removal of infected persons without proper lodging to hospital by order of justice.
125Removal to hospital of infected persons brought by ships.
126Penalty on exposure of infected persons and things.
127Penalty on failing to provide for disinfection of public conveyance.
128Penalty on letting houses in which infected persons have been lodging.
129Penalty on persons letting houses making false statements as to infectious disease.
130Power of Local Government Board to make regulations.
Hospitals.
131Power of local authority to provide hospitals.
132Recovery of costs of maintenance of patient in hospitals.
133Power to provide temporary supply of medicine.
PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
134Power of Local Government Board to make regulations for prevention of diseases.
135Publication of regulations and orders.
136Local authority to see to the execution of regulations.
137Power of entry.
138Poor law medical officer entitled to costs of attendance on board vessels.
139Local Government Board may combine local authorities.
140Penalty for violating or obstructing the execution of regulations.
MORTUARIES, &C.
141Power of local authority to provide mortuaries.
142Justice may in certain cases order removal of dead body to mortuary.
143Power of local authority to provide places for post-mortem examinations.
PART IVLOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONS.
HIGHWAYS AND STREETS.
As to Highways.
144Powers of surveyors of highways and of vestries under 5 & 6 W. 4 c. 50 vested in urban authority.
145Inhabitants of urban district not liable to rates for roads without district.
146Power of urban authority to agree as to making of new public roads.
147Power of urban authority to construct or adopt public bridges, &c. over or under canals, &c.
148Power of urban authority to enter into agreement with turnpike trustees as to repair, &c. of roads.
Regulation of Streets and Buildings.
149Vesting of streets, &c. in urban authority.
150Power to compel paving, &c. of private streets.
151Exemption from expenses under last section of incumbent of church, &c.
152Power to declare private streets when sewered, &c. to be highways.
153Power to require gas and water pipes to be moved.
154Power to purchase premises for improvement of streets.
155Power to regulate line of buildings.
156Buildings not to be brought forward.
157Power to make byelaws respecting new buildings, &c.
158As to commencement of works and removal of works made contrary to byelaws.
159What to be deemed a new building.
160Incorporation of certain provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 34.
Lighting Streets, &c.
161Powers of urban authority for lighting their district.
162Power for sale of undertaking of gas company to urban authority.
163Watching and Lighting Act (3 & 4 W. 4 c. 90) to be superseded by this Act.
PUBLIC PLEASURE GROUNDS, &C.
164Urban authority may provide places of public recreation.
165Urban authority may provide public clocks.
MARKETS AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
166Urban authority may provide markets.
167Incorporation of provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c.14 as to markets.
168Power for sale of undertaking of market company to urban authority.
169Power to provide slaughter-houses.
170Notice to be affixed on slaughter-houses.
POLICE REGULATIONS.
171Incorporation of certain provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89.
172Urban authority may make byelaws for licensing horses, boats, &c. for hire.
PART VGENERAL PROVISIONS.
Contracts.
173Power of local authorities to contract.
174Provisions to contracts by urban authority.
PURCHASE OF LANDS.
175Power to purchase lands.
176Regulations as to purchase of land.
177Power to let lands.
178Provision for lands belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster.
ARBITRATION.
179Mode of reference to arbitration.
180Regulations as to arbitration.
181Claims under twenty pounds may be referred to court of summary jurisdiction.
182Authentication and alteration of byelaws.
183Power to impose penalties on breach of byelaws.
184Confirmation of byelaws.
185Byelaws to be printed, &c.
186Evidence of byelaws.
187Byelaws made under s. 90 of 5 & 6 W. 4 c. 76 to be submitted to Local Government Board.
188As to regulations of local authority.
OFFICERS AND CONDUCT OF BUSINESS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
Officers of Local Authorities.
189Appointment of officers of urban authority.
190Appointment of officers of rural authority.
191As to medical officer of health, &c.
192Offices tenable by same persons.
193Officers not to contract with local authority.
194Officers entrusted with money to give security.
195Officers to account.
196Summary proceedings against defaulting officers.
Mode of conducting Business.
197Urban authority to provide offices.
198Proceedings, &c. of urban authority being the council of a borough.
199Meetings, &c. of urban authority not being the council of a borough.
200Power of urban authority to appoint committees.
201Power of rural authority to delegate their powers and duties to a committee.
202Power of rural authority to form parochial committee.
203Casual vacancies in committees may be filled.
204Meetings and proceedings of committees.
205Inspectors may attend meetings of certain authorities.
206Local authority to report.
PART VIRATING AND BORROWING POWERS, &C.
EXPENSES OF URBAN AUTHORITY AND URBAN RATES.
207Mode of defraying expenses of urban authority.
208Power in certain cases by provisional order to alter mode.
General District Rate.
209District fund account.
210Making general district rate.
211Assessment, &c. of general district rate.
212Inspection of poor rate books for purposes of assessment.
Private Improvement Rate.
213Power to make private improvement rates.
214Proportion of private improvement rate may be deducted from rent.
215Redemption of private improvement rates.
Highway Rate.
216Costs of repairs of highways.
217Certain acts not required to be done in case of highway rate made by urban authority.
General Provisions as to Urban Rates.
218Estimate to be prepared before making rates.
219Rates to be open to inspection.
220Description of owner or occupier in rates.
221Rates may be amended.
222Publication and collection of rates.
223Evidence of rates.
224Power to make deduction from rate in certain cases.
225Power to reduce or remit rates.
226Saving for existing agreements.
227Limit in local Act not to apply to rate for purposes of this Act.
228Quota of rates to be paid by the universities, &c.
EXPENSES OF RURAL AUTHORITY.
229Expenses of rural authority.
230Mode of raising contributions in rural district.
231Remedy for nonpayment by overseers of amount required by precept of rural authority.
232As to private improvement expenses.
BORROWING POWERS.
233Power to borrow on credit of rates.
234Regulations as to exercise of borrowing powers.
235Power to borrow on credit of sewage land and plant.
236Form of mortgage.
237Register of mortgages.
238Transfer of mortgages.
239Receiver may be appointed in certain cases.
240Rentcharge may be granted in respect of advances made for private improvements.
241Rentcharges to be registered.
242Power of Public Works Loan Commissioners to lend to local authority.
243Power of Public Works Loan Commissioners to lend to local authority on recommendation of Local Government Board.
244Borrowing powers of joint boards and certain other authorities.
AUDIT.
Audit of Accounts of Local Authorities.
245Accounts of local authorities.
246Audit where urban authority are a town council.
247Audit where urban authority are not a town council.
248Audit of accounts of rural authority.
249Taxation of bill of solicitor or attorney.
250Auditor to audit accounts of officers.
PART VIILEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Prosecution of Offences and Recovery of Penalties, &c.
251Summary proceedings for offences, penalties, &c.
252General provisions as to summary proceedings.
253Restriction on recovery of penalties.
254Application of penalties.
255Proceedings in certain cases against nuisances.
256Summary proceedings for recovery of rates.
257Recovery of expenses by local authority from owners.
258Justices may act though members of local authority are liable to contribute.
259Appearance of local authorities in legal proceedings.
260Name of local authority need not be proved.
261Demands below 50l may be recovered in county courts.
262Proceedings not to be quashed for want of form.
263False evidence punishable as perjury.
264Notice of action against local authority, &c.
265Protection of local authority and their officers from personal liability.
Notices.
266Notices, &c. may be printed or written.
267Service of notices.
Appeal.
268Appeal in certain cases to Local Government Board.
269Appeal to quarter sessions.
PART VIIIAlteration of Areas and Union of Districts.
Alterations of Areas.
270Powers of Local Government Board in relation to alteration of areas.
271Local Government Board may by provisional order constitute local government district.
272Local Government Board may by order constitute local government district in pursuance of a resolution of owners and ratepayers.
273Objection to resolution.
274Appeal to Local Government Board in case of alleged invalidity of vote.
275General provisions as to orders.
276Local Government Board may invest rural authority with powers of urban authority.
277Power of rural authority to form special drainage districts.
278Power to settle disputes as to boundaries of districts.
Union of Districts.
279Formation of united district.
280Governing body of united district.
281Contents of provisional order forming united district.
282Meetings and proceedings of joint boards.
283Expenses of joint board.
284Payment of contributions to joint board.
285Power to execute works in adjoining districts, and to combine for execution of works.
286Districts may be united for appointing a medical officer of health.
PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY.
287Constitution of port sanitary authority.
288Jurisdiction of port sanitary authority.
289Delegation of powers by port sanitary authority.
290Expenses of port sanitary authority.
291Provision as to port of London.
292Proceedings for raising a sum for payment of debt within district of a defaulting authority.
PART IXLocal Government Board.
Inquiries by Board.
293Power of Board to direct inquiries.
294Orders as to costs of inquiries.
295Orders of Board under this Act.
296Power of Inspectors of Local Government Board.
Provisional Orders by Board.
297As to provisional orders made by Local Government Board.
298Costs of provisional orders.
Power of Board to enforce Performance of Duty by defaulting Local Authority.
299Proceedings on complaint to Board of default of local authority.
300Further provision for recovery of expenses.
301Power of Board to borrow to defray expenses of performing duty of defaulting authority.
302Recovery of principal and interest.
Powers of Board in relation to Local Acts, &c.
303Power to repeal and alter local Acts.
304Settlement of differences arising out of transfer of powers or property to local authority.
PART XMiscellaneous and Temporary Provisions.
Miscellaneous.
305Entry on lands for purposes of Act.
306Penalty on obstructing execution of Act.
307Penalty on damaging works, &c. of local authority.
308Compensation in case of damage by local authority.
309Compensation in certain cases to officers.
310Provision where improvement Act district or local government district becomes a borough.
311Power of local boards to change name.
312As to election of certain improvement commissioners, &c.
313Substitution in other Acts of provisions of this Act for provisions of repealed Acts.
314Byelaws as to hop-pickers.
315As to byelaws inconsistent with this Act.
316As to construction of incorporated Acts.
317Construction of schedules.
Temporary Provisions.
318As to clerk and treasurer of certain authorities.
319As to special district rates.
320Division of expenses between landlord and tenant in certain cases.
321Validity of certain securities.
322As to certain turnpike trustees.
323As to main sewerage districts and joint sewerage boards.
324As to audit of certain accounts.
325As to certain orders under section 20 of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79.
PART XISaving Clauses and Repeal of Acts.
Saving Clauses.
326Provision as to the sanitary authorities existing at the passing of this Act and their officers, &c.
327Saving for works and property of certain authorities, and for navigation and water rights, &c.
328Reference to arbitration in case of works not within preceding section.
329Effect of arbitration.
330Provision as to transfer of powers, &c.
331Provision as to alteration of sewers.
332Saving for water rights generally.
333Arbitration as to alteration of sewers injuriously affecting supply of water, &c.
334Saving for mines, &c.
335Saving for collegiate bodies and Government departments.
336Saving for Metropolitan Board of Works.
337Saving for payment in certain cases to local authority.
338Saving for acts of authorities under certain local Acts.
339Saving for certain local boards.
340Saving for proceedings under local Acts.
341Powers of Act to be cumulative.
Oxford.
342Constitution of local board of the Oxford district.
Repeal of Acts.
343Repeal of Acts in Schedule V.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE IRules as to Meetings and Proceedings.
(1.) Rules applicable to Local Boards.
1Every local board shall from time to time make regulations...
2No business shall be transacted at any such meeting unless...
3Every local board shall from time to time at their...
4If the chairman so appointed dies resigns or becomes incapable...
5If the chairman is absent from any meeting at the...
6The names of the members present, as well as of...
7Every question at a meeting shall be decided by a...
8In case of an equal division of votes the chairman...
9The proceedings of a local board shall not be invalidated...
10Any minute made of proceedings at a meeting, and copies...
11The annual meeting of a local board shall be held...
12The first meeting of a local board for a district...
13Nothing in these rules contained with respect to the appointment...
(2) Rules applicable to Committees of Local Authorities, other than Councils of Boroughs, and to Joint Boards.
1A committee or joint board may meet and adjourn as...
2The quorum of a committee or joint board shall consist;...
3A committee or joint board may appoint a chairman of...
4If no chairman is elected, or if the chairman elected...
5Every question at a meeting shall be determined by a...
6In case of an equal division of votes the chairman...
7The proceedings of a committee or joint board shall not...
8Any minute made of proceedings at a meeting, and copies...
SCHEDULE II
(I.) RULES FOR ELECTION OF LOCAL BOARDS
Number and Qualification of Members.
1The number of members of a local board constituted after...
2The Local Government Board may from time to time by...
3A person shall not be qualified to be a member...
4Where two or more persons are jointly seised or possessed...
5A person who is a bankrupt or whose affairs are...
Wards.
6The Local Government Board may, by order made on application...
7If any member is elected in more than one ward,...
8No person entitled to vote shall give in the whole...
9Subject as aforesaid, any owner or ratepayer may, by notice...
Qualification of Electors, Scale of Voting, and Register of Owners.
10The word owner, when used in relation to the right...
11A person shall not be deemed a ratepayer or be...
12Owners of and ratepayers in respect of property situated within...
13Any person who is owner and also bonk fide occupier...
14Owners may give their votes either personally-or by proxy.
15The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under...
16No member of a corporation or of any such body...
17Partners in a firm consisting of not more than six...
18An owner or a proxy shall not (except at the...
19The local board shall cause a register to be made...
20A claim by an owner or proxy to be entered...
21A claim by an owner or proxy may be made...
22A person entitled to vote either as owner or ratepayer...
23Claims and objections shall be sent to the chairman of...
24A person making an objection shall also give written notice...
25The chairman shall between the twentieth of February and the...
26The chairman on the expiration of the time for sending...
27For the purpose of enabling the chairman to determine the...
28Not later than the sixteenth of March the chairman shall...
29If the chairman is unable or unwilling to conduct the...
30The register shall be open to the inspection of candidates...
31At the first election of a local board constituted after...
Returning Officer.
32The returning officer, for the purposes of the election of...
33If the office of chairman is vacant at the time...
34The local board, or (in case of the first election)...
35If any returning officer appointed by the Local Government Board...
Election.
36The returning officer shall after the close of the revision...
37The returning officer may, .if he thinks fit, cause to...
38The clerk of the board of guardians of any union,...
39Any person entitled to vote may nominate for the office...
40Every such nomination shall be in writing, and shall state...
41Any person nominated may withdraw from his candidature by giving...
42If the number of persons nominated and not withdrawn is...
43If the number nominated and not withdrawn exceeds the number...
44The returning officer shall, three days at least before the...
45Each voter shall write his initials in the voting paper...
46Any person voting as a proxy shall in like manner...
47Any voter unable to write shall affix his mark at...
48The returning officer shall cause the voting papers to be...
49No voting paper shall be received or admitted unless the...
50If any person nominated, or any person on his behalf,...
Counting of Votes.
51The returning officer shall on the day immediately following the...
52The candidates to the number to be elected who, being...
53The returning officer shall also cause to be made a...
54Such list shall during office hours be open to public...
55The returning officer shall make all his arrangements for the...
Declaration to be made by Members.
56A person shall not act as a member of a...
57Such declaration shall be signed by the person making the...
58Any person who neglects to make and subscribe the declaration...
Retirement of Members.
59Subject as herein-after mentioned, one third of the number of...
60The order in which the persons elected at the first...
61No person elected shall in any case continuously remain in...
62Before the fifteenth of April in each year a number...
63Any person who has ceased to be a member is...
Disqualification of Members.
64Any member who ceases to hold his qualification, or becomes...
Casual Vacancies.
65Any casual vacancy occurring by death resignation disqualification failure duly...
General Provisions.
66Whenever the day appointed for the performance of any act...
67The necessary expenses attendant on any election, and such reasonable...
68If the returning officer refuses or neglects to comply with...
69Any person who— Fabricates in whole or in part or...
70Any person who, not being duly qualified to act as...
As to Local Boards established before the passing of the Local Government Act, 1858.
71Where the district of a local board established under the...
72Elective members of any local board established under the Public...
Temporary Provisions.
73All members of local boards existing at the time of...
74The provisions of section twenty-six of the Sanitary Law Amendment...
Oxford.
75Nothing in the rules in this schedule shall apply to...
(II.) PROCEEDINGS IN CASE OF LAPSE OF LOCAL BOARD
1Where any local board lapses through its members ceasing to...
2In the case of any lapse of a local board,...
SCHEDULE III
Rules as to Resolutions of Owners and Ratepayers.
1For the purpose of passing a resolution of owners and...
2The summoning officer of such meeting shall be— In boroughs,...
3Ratepayers or owners making a requisition for the summoning of...
4The .summoning officer shall, on such requisition as aforesaid, fix...
5The summoning officer shall be the chairman of the meeting...
6The chairman shall propose to the meeting the resolution, and...
7A copy, under the hand of the summoning officer, of...
8Where in pursuance of a resolution passed in manner provided...
SCHEDULE IV
SCHEDULE V
PART IEnactments which have been already repealed are in a few instances included in this repeal, in order to avoid the necessity of reference to previous statutes.
PART II
PART III
11 & 12 Vict. c. 63. s. 83.
As to interments within churches.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 98. s. 49.
Local board to be burial board in certain cases.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 61. s. 21.
Urban authorities may repair fences surrounding burial grounds.
26 & 27 Vict. c. 17. s. 6.
Local government districts to be within highway districts for purpose of highway meetings.
29 & 30 Vict. c. 90. s. 44.
Power to burial boards in certain cases to transfer their powers to urban authority.
29 & 30 Vict. c. 90. s. 51.
Power to reduce penalties imposed by 6 G. 4. c. 78.
29 & 30 Vict c. 90. s. 52.
Description of vessels within provisions of 6 G. 4. c. 78.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 76. s. 34.
As to consent of Local Government Board required in certain cases.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 79. s. 35.
Transfer of powers and duties of Board of Trade under Alkali Act, 1863, and Metropolis Water Acts, 1852 and 1871, to Local Government Board.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 79. s. 36.
Transfer of powers and duties of Secretary of State under Highway and Turnpike Acts to Local Government Board.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 79. s. 37.
Transfer of officers to Local Government Board.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 79. s. 38.
Salary of medical officer.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 79. s. 48.
Orders of the Local Government Board how to be publsihed.

Public Health Act 1875

1875 Chapter 55

An Act for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to Public Health in England.

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: