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Section 40 provides a penalty not exceeding five pounds for the wilful damage of or the wilful
improper use of any drain, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ashpit.
Section 41 enables the officers of the Corporation to examine any sanitary convenience or fitting,
either upon reasonable grounds for believing the existence of a nuisance, or for the purpose of examining
the course of the same, without receiving the written complaint mentioned in section 41 of the Public
Health Act, 1875.
Section 42 gives powers to make bye-laws for securing freedom from pollution of receptacles for
storing water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing
drink for the food of man.
Section 43 provides a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and a daily penalty not exceeding twenty
shillings, for non-compliance with an order to close a polluted well under section 70 of the Public
Health Act.
Section 44. Any dwelling-house without a proper and sufficient water-supply to be deemed unfit
for human habitation, and no new dwelling-house to be occupied until provided with such supply.
Section 45. The Corporation may require alteration of or removal to a place specified by them of
urinals so placed as to be offensive to public decency.
Section 46. The Corporation may require urinals to be attached to inns, refreshment-houses, or
places of public entertainment.
Section 47 provides that sections 96, 97, and 98 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, shall
extend to and apply within the County Borough.
Section 48. The provisions of section 73 of the Public Health Act, 1875, shall extend to persons
occupying any cellar-dwelling which does not conform with the requirements of section 72 of that Act,
although such cellar-dwelling is not occupied or suffered to be occupied for hire or rent.
Section 49 gives further powers in dealing with strayed swine.
Section 50 enables the Corporation to employ scavengers for collecting and removing manure, &c.,
from stables and cow-houses.
Section 51 is identical with sub-sections 3 and 4 of section 47 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
Section 52 provides for the lighting of common stairs, passages, or courts; and section 53 empowers
the Corporation to supply the light and charge the owners.
Part VII.—Infectious Diseases. Section 54 empowers the Corporation to require the cleansing,
purifying, or destroying of any articles of bed or body clothing in such a filthy or unwholesome condition
that health is affected or endangered thereby.
Section 55. It shall not be lawful to hold any wake over the body of any person who has died of an
infectious disease, and the occupier of any house who permits such wake to take place shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
Section 56. The words "without proper lodging or accommodation" in section 124, of the Public
Health Act, 1875, shall be construed to include any person without proper lodging or accommodation,
having regard to the danger of infection to other persons in the same house.