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A Medical Officer of Health is to be removable from
office only with the consent of the Local Government
Board.
A Sanitary Inspector appointed after 1st January, 1895,
is to hold a certificate of competency from such body as
the Local Government Board may approve, or to have
been for three consecutive years preceding 1895 a sanitary
inspector or inspector of nuisances in London or an
urban sanitary district out of London, containing not less
than 20,000 inhabitants. (Sec. 108.)
Notices may be signed by the Clerk to the Sanitary
Authority or other officer, but orders are to be given under
the common seal of the authority. (Sec. 127.)
The foregoing observations are not to be taken as an"
exhaustive digest of even such of the provisions of the Act
as are specially referred to, still less of the Act itself. The
existing law has only been reproduced in these remarks
where its omission would have tended to obscurity (e.g.,
certain purposes for which bye-laws may be made), or
where in special cases (e.g., certain of the provisions relating
to infectious diseases) it seems desirable to notice recent
amendments of the law now embodied in the Act.
The Act received very careful consideration by the
Vestry when it was before Parliament in the form of two
Bills, one for the consolidation, and the other for the
amendment of the law relating to Public Health in London,
and it is interesting to note that nearly all the points
raised by the Sanitary and Parlimentary Bills Committee
in their report of the 24th March, 1891, on the two bills,have
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