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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, under the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1885, 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 Public Health Department, it being necessary in many
cases to keep observation throughout the night.
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.
Sec. 48 contains the important provision that a newly-erected
dwelling-house must not be occupied until a certificate has been
obtained of the Sanitary Authority to the effect that a proper and