The Early Sanitary Legislation, 1846 - 1848

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Permissive legislation

and drainage schemes to control nuisances

Nuisances defined as; 'unwholesome houses , accumilation of filth and foul drains and cesspools

Enabled justices in petty sessions courts to ;

They only applied where authorities wanted them to , liverpool the exception

Defined the rights of towns to lay water supplies

Enabled local authorities to provide baths and washhouses out of public money

Prosecute those responsible for 'nuisances'

Also appointed firts medical health officer of Britain

to carry out sewerage, drainage and water supply improvements

The town council was given powers

which ahd the power to appoint a medical officer of health

Made a corporation health authority

Was an Act limited to Liverpool

Almost immediatley it was folled by some minor legislation, until a main Public Health Act could be prepared

Marked a mid - Century appraisal of the Sanitary Conditions in Britain

The Early Sanitary Legislation, 1846 - 1848

Nuisance Removal Act 1846; first of many

The Liverpool Sanitary Act was passed in 1846

the 1846 Baths and Washouses Act

The 1847 the Towns Improvement Clauses Act

The Acts shared common characteristics

The 1844 Royal commission into the Sanitary Condition of Large Twons and Populous Districts