The Early Sanitary Legislation, 1846 - 1848
The 1844 Royal commission into the Sanitary Condition of Large Twons and Populous Districts
The Acts shared common characteristics
The 1847 the Towns Improvement Clauses Act
the 1846 Baths and Washouses Act
The Liverpool Sanitary Act was passed in 1846
Nuisance Removal Act 1846; first of many
Marked a mid - Century appraisal of the Sanitary Conditions in Britain
Almost immediatley it was folled by some minor legislation, until a main Public Health Act could be prepared
Was an Act limited to Liverpool
Made a corporation health authority
which ahd the power to appoint a medical officer of health
The town council was given powers
to carry out sewerage, drainage and water supply improvements
Also appointed firts medical health officer of Britain
Prosecute those responsible for 'nuisances'
Enabled local authorities to provide baths and washhouses out of public money
Defined the rights of towns to lay water supplies
They only applied where authorities wanted them to , liverpool the exception
Enabled justices in petty sessions courts to ;
Nuisances defined as; 'unwholesome houses , accumilation of filth and foul drains and cesspools
and drainage schemes to control nuisances
