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Battersea 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Sec. 66. Removal to hospital of infected persons. This
is now effected under the provisions of the various acts and
regulations of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Sec. 88. Bye.laws for the Mortuary. Regulations are in
existence for the control of the Mortuary.keeper under which the
Mortuary has hitherto been regulated.
Sec. 95. Tents and vans. Bye.laws were made by the
District Board some years since, which have been acted on until
the present time.
By Secs. 23 and 24 the control of smoke nuisances other
than in private dwellings is placed under the Sanitary Authority
instead of the Police, and has considerably increased the work of
the Sanitary Department.
Work.shops, Work.places and Factories are also placed
under the supervision of the Sanitary Authority with certain
duties as to giving notice to the Factory Inspector when children,
young persons, or women are employed. It is also the duty of
the Authority to see that proper and separate accommodation is
provided for each sex.
Sec. 47 provides that a medical officer of health or sanitary
inspector shall examine all articles intended for the food of man
if unsound, and shall seize the same and obtain an order from a
Justice for its destruction. The fine is raised to a maximum of
£50 for every animal or parcel of food condemned, and should
a person be so convicted twice in twelve months the Court may
order a notice of the facts to be affixed to his premises for a
period not exceeding twenty-one days. Should a person find
himself in the possession of unsound food he himself may give
notice to the Vestry, who must remove the same as trade refuse
and this procedure would seem to relieve him of the penalties
mentioned.