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Public Health Act, 4 Edw. 7; chap. 16.
This Act enables regulations to be made and enforced, consequent
upon International Convention, with respect to the prevention of danger
arising to public health from vessels, and the prevention of the
conveyance of infection, by means of vessels.
Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 4 Edw. 7 chap. 29.
By this Act, the Vaccination Act 1898 is continued in force for
another year, until the end 1905.
London County Council (General Powers) Act 1904.
Part IV. of this Act gives to Metropolitan Borough Councils the
power, upon the certificate of their Medical Officer of Health, to disinfect,
purify, or destroy, filthy, dangerous or unwholesome articles in
any house within their district, when the same is necessary to prevent
health being affected or endangered, or prevent risk of, or check,
infectious disease; and to require the Owner of any house or part of
house which is infested with vermin, to remove the paper from the walls
and to take such other steps as the case may require.
Notice may now be served upon the Owner of any sanitary convenience
erected in or accessible from any street, requiring him to
remove or reconstruct any such convenience if it is either a nuisance or
offensive to public decency.
Where a movable sanitary dustbin has been provided for the storage
of house refuse pursuant to or in conformity wit the requirements of
any Bye-law, Order, or Statutory Authority, the Owner can be required
to remove the fixed ashpit which previously did duty and to restore the
site thereof to a good sanitary condition.
Part V.—This part of the Act confers powers on the London
County Council to cause cows suffering or suspected to be suffering from
Tuberculosis of the Udder, in any dairyfarm or cowshed in the County,
to be removed and slaughtered.