Infectious disease (notification) ACT, 1889

244 INFECTIOUS

INFECTIOUS DISEASE ACT,

DISEASE

(NOTIFICATION)

(NOTIFICATION)

I889.*

LIST o f L o c a l A u t h o r i t i e s t h a t h a v e f o r w a r d e d t o the Local Government Board copies of resolutions adopting the Act :Whether Whether Urban, Urban. Name. Rural, or Name. ]Rural) or Port. Port. Aston .................. Rural Hornsey .................. Urban Houghton.le-Spring... Rural Abingdon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,, ,................ Urban Isle of Wight ............ Ilfraeombe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Urban Bishops Stortford.. ..... ,) Kettering ............... Rural Balsall Heath ......... ,) Kiddermlnster ......... Urban Bodmin .................. ), Billesdon ............... Rural Kingsbridge ............ Rural Lichfield ............... ,, Brad field .............. ), Liskeard ............... Urban Blandtord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .................. j, Belper ................. Urban L y I ~ m Middle~brough ......... ,, Bedford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) ,, Bedford ................. Rural Melksham ............... Milton .................. ,, Bolton .................. ,, ,, .................. Rural Banbuty .................. , Mountain Ash ......... Urban Barnet ), Coventry ............... Urban Mere ..................... Rural ,, ............. . Rural Maldon .................. Martley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carnarvon .......... ..... ,, ,, Chatham ............... Urban Monmouth ............... Market Harborough... Urban Castleford ............... ,, ,, Caistor .................. Rural March .................. ,, Compton Gifford ...... Urban Mansfield Woodhouse Christchurch ............ Rural MaIl;ng .................. Rural ,, Cockermouth ......... Urban Northwich ............... Cosford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rural Newark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Urban New Winchester ...... Rural Cireneester ............ ,) Oakham .................. ,, Croydon ............... , ,, Cambridge ............ Urban Orsett ..................... Okehampton ............ ,, Devonport . . . . . . . . . . . ,, Penzance ............... Urban Dorking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,, . ,, .................. Rural P l y m o u t h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dalton in-Furness ... Urban Pateley Bridge . . . . . . . . Rural Prescot .................. ,, Dover ..................... ), )) .................... Rural Paignton ............... Urban Potterspury ............ Rural Drayton .................. ' ,, Rochester ............... Urban Darlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . , Epsom .................. Urban Reigate .................. Rural ,, .................. Rural Richmond (Surrey) ... Urban ,, East Retfora . . . . . . . . . . Urban Sheffield ............... Stamford ............... Rural Egremont ............... ,, Saffron Walden . . . . . Urban Eston ..................... ,, ,) Elham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rural Sittingbourne ......... Falmouth ............... Urban Sklpton .................. Rural ,) Faringdon ............... Rural Shardlow .............. . Gillingham ............ Urban Settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,, Guiltcross ............... Rural Selby ..................... Heanor .................. Urban Swinton and PeDdlebury .................. Urban Harrow .................. ), Hendon .................. Rural SolihuU .................. Rural . Hex ham .................. Urban South Stoneham ...... Horncastle ............... Rural Standish - with - Langtree ..................... Urban ............... Urban Southgate ............... ), Harborne ............... ,, Howden .................. Rural Strood .................. Rural St. Helens ............... Urban Hollingbourn . . . . . . . . ,, Higher Rebington ... Urban St. Germans ............ Rural Hartlepool ............ Rural Truro ..................... Urban ,, Herne Bay ............ Urban Tunbridge Wells ...... Totnes .................. ,, Halstead ............... . ............... Rural Tynemouth . . . . . . . . . . . Thingoe .................. Rural Hambledon ............ ,, Tadcaster ............... . Henley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,, * The Editor is indebted to the courtesy of the Local Government Board for this information. The date of the communication is November xSth.

ACT,

Whether Urban, Rural, or Port. Tenterden ............... Rural Tendring ............... , Thanet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) Tamworth ............... ,, Turton .................. Urban Tottenham ............ ,, Twickenham ............ ), Ulverstone ............... Rural Uppingham ............ West Hartlepool ...... Url~an Name.

A

METROPOLITAN

OF

THE

WORKING

1889. Whether Name,

Urban.

Rural, or

Port. W a t e r l o o . with - Seaforth .................. Whitehaven ............ Wolverhampton ...... Wallasey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wetherby ............... Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . Whitby & Monkseaton Walker .................. Worcester . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

U rba n Rural Urban . Rural Urban )) ,, Rural

SURVEYOR'S

VIEW

OF TORRENS'

ACT.

MR. F . W . BARRATT, S u r v e y o r t o t h e P a r i s h o f St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, has recently issued his Annual Report, in the course of which he publishes the following statement and correspondence :INSANITARY DWELLINGS. "During the year the Medical Officer of Health has condemned a considerable number of houses a s b e i n g ' in a condition o r state dangerous to health, so as to be unfit f o r h u m a n habitation,' a n d r e c o m mended that they should be dealt with under the provisions of the 'Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings Acts' (commonly known as Torrens' Acts). A number of these reports have been from time t o t i m e r e f e r r e d t o y o u r S u r v e y o r for c o n s i d e r a t i o n and report. In dealing with houses under these Acts great difficulties and delays arise. The first r e p o r t referred to me related to Mar, ha Court, and the report of the Medical Officer stated :--' These are small two.roomed houses, built back to back : they are all more or less damp and dilapidated. The flooring of t h e lower r o o m s is f r o m e i g h t to t w e l v e inches below the level of the forecourts ; the roofs in s o m e i n s t a n c e s are leaky, a n d t h e walls a n d ceilings of the rooms are (with the exception of No. x) i n a f i l t h y c o n d i t i o n . Houses constructed back to back in this manner cannot be properly ventilated. The forecourts are badly and insufficiently paved, and there are only two water closets for the eight houses.' On referring to Section 6 of the Artlzans and Labourers' Dwellings Acts, i868, I find the instructions to the Surveyor or Engineer defined as tollows: 'To consider the report so furnished to him, a n d r e p o r t to t h e L o c a l A u t h o r i t y w h a t is t h e c a u s e of t h e evil so r e p o r t e d on a n d t h e r e m e d y thereof, a n d if s u c h evil is o c c a s i o n e d by d e f e c t s i n a n y premises, whether the same can be remedied by structural alterations and improvements or otherwise, or whether such premises, or any, and what part thereof, ought to be demolished.' Being

a n x i o u s a s fa r a s p o s s i b l e t o m e e t

the