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EEVEB, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS. 13
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existing streets , provide places of public recreation , and procure a sufficient suly of water to be brought both to the town and to
. each house . pp They , may also supply water to public baths , and construct and maintain public cisterns for gratuitous use .
11 . The Local Board may provide houses for the reception of the dead previous to interment . , They mayon the report of the
inspector , close old burying-grounds and open , new ones ; and they may purchasesellor exchange lands or premises for the purposes
of the Act . , , 12 . The Local Board may , further , enforce the whitewashing
and cleansing of any house on the certificate of the Officer of Healthor of two medical practitioners . They may require
that all , slaughter any -houses in the district be registered at the Local officeand may provide new premises for the purpose of being used
as slau , ghter-houses in the place of the old ones , if they think fit to do so . They may refuse . to allow any other offensive trades to
be newly established , or may make bye-laws in order to prevent or diminish the noxious or injurious effects of such trades .
13 . In addition to these powers , the Local Board is enjoined to exercise supervision over the drainage and arrangements
connected with it in houses and factories , and to see that no cellars are used as habitations except under certain conditions detailed in
the Act . Provision is made for regulating the way in which the incurred in these several improvements are to be met .
expenses The foregoing are the most important provisions of the Act of 1848 . If any proof were needed to demonstrate the truth that no
reform cond ciated ition , by however of the th slow e ma valuable j social ority , mind will f our be of coun quickl our try Eng y unders lish seap middle tood ort t and o - w class ns appre , with the
their drains still in the Land of Promisein the face of this Act , of eihteen ears' standingwould furnish that , proof . In many cases
the g existence y of the Act , is almost unknown , except , perhaps , to the medical manwho is looked upon as a harmless enthusiast _ujDon
sanitary matters , by the rest of the community . But even where it is known and understoodand whereby petition of the inhabitants
it is to be applied , and a , Local Board , to be elected , in many cases , the members of the Board are pledged to oppose all improvement
involving expenditure on the part of the ratepayers . In the words of a competent witnesswe may say—" The compulsory powers
are all but obsolete by reason , of the p , ig-headed ruffians who get into the Local Boards—more than half are petty builders and
publicans , who have a direct pecuniary interest in the evils they should have been elected to remove . " The central danger of democracy
is especially felt in all local administration . Boards are elected by persons directly and keenly interested in all questions of local
expenditure , and who , by their numbers and unanimity , gain a power which by education and habit they are unfitted to exercise . The
guardianship of public health falls into the hands of those least
Eeveb, In Its Social Aspects. 13
_EEVEB , IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS . 13
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/13/
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