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FEVER, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS. 11
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As we , believe a large proportion of the public are still almost recap amending completel itulate y Acts ignorant its have leading of been the clauses passed provisions . but Since of these thi the s chiefl Act year , y we affect 1848 shall , adminis several briefly
-, tration—the sanitary provisions remain the same . The duties oriinally assigned to the General Board of Health are now
transferred g to the Local Government Officewhichis a branch of the I Home Officeand the Parliamentary responsibility , _, rests with the
! Home Secretary , . Some other Acts in relation to disease have also been passed since the Public Health Actand of these we
, of may which mention the be Local seen Government in Kniht ' s Act " Companion , 1858 , a useful to the summary British may g
Almanac The Preamble , " for 18 to 5 9 the . * Public Health Act states that it is enacted
for improving the sanitary conditions of the towns and populous p to laces such in towns England with and their Wales sewerage , and for draining placing and the cleansing supply of , as water far
as is practicable , , under local management , and , control , subject to certain The general 8 th clause supervision is the , first afterwards of any to great be defined importance . . It is
enacted in it , that upon the petition of not less than one-tenth of the whole number of rateable inhabitants of any town ( the
petitioners not being fewer than thirty ) , or upon the rate of mortality examined three for seven in a years as thousand to bein the , g a shown public inquiry to & c be and above may an be the inspector instituted average appointed , of witnesses twent b y y -
deposited to report the inquire central upon with to the authority the the several General local sewerage . m officers The Board atters , insp , of and upon e , ctor the cop which distri is ies then of ct he this or to has town report send been in a question are directed written to be ,
to criticising in be order expedient to it . give If that , the after the inhabitants this Act inquiry should an , it be opportunity appear applied to to the of the inspecting Gener town al , it Board may and
be of the put General in force Board by an afterwards order in Council to be sanctioned or by a provisional by Parliament order .
These are some of the , powers transferred by more recent Acts to the Local Government Office and Home Secretary .
The next clauses of importance are those relating to the constitution of the Local Boards , by whom the provisions of the Act are to
be carried into effect . Passing over these , we proceed to explain the nature and extent
) f 1 the . The power Local entrusted Board may to them appoint . a legally qualified medical
prac' The * Local Nuisances Government Removal Act , and 1853 Diseases , 21 & Act 22 Prevention for Viet the ., cap Better Act . 98 s . , Prevention 18 Act 49 . to "— amend 1855 of ,
_diseases 8 & 19 Viet 1855 ., cap 18 . & 121 19 . Vi Price et . Is . . 16 6 d . . Price Zd . , , , cap
Fever, In Its Social Aspects. 11
FEVER , IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS . 11
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/11/
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