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PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATION.
During the year 1913 certain Orders, Circulars, Letters and
Memoranda bearing upon Public Health were issued to Local
Authorities. The following are the chief of these:—
Bye-laws.
Bye-laws: Mortuaries, Model Clauses, issued by the Local
Government Board, March, 1913.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
Home Work Order of 20th January, 1913.
The Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1909.
Memorandum with respect to the provision and arrangement
of houses for the working classes, 25th March, 1913.
Circular.
Receptacles for poisonous liquids intended to be used for the
purpose of disinfection.
Order in Council.
Applying Section 5 of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908,
to certain liquid preparations containing not more than 3 per cent,
of phenols.
Circular.
Public Health: Epidemic Diarrhoea; Feeding of Infants;
Notification of Births Act, 1907.
Memorandum.
Memorandum on the construction and arrangement of inex
pensive buildings for Tuberculous patients. Local Government
Board, February, 1913.
The following also became law:
The Public Health (Prevention and Treatment of Diseases) Act, 1913.