Tag: Local Government
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Nuisance
History The Public Health Acts 1875 to 1907 contain elaborate provisions for dealing with nuisances. Those which are dealt with summarily are thus enumerated: any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, […]
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Local Government Board
Local Government Board History Set up in 1871 it took over responsibility for all aspects of local government from various ministries and the Poor Law Board. Succeeded by the Ministry of Health in 1919. In this issue about local government board, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as […]
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Streets
History of Local Government policy relating to Streets It may be convenient to state that the expression “street” is here used in a sense much wider than its ordinary meaning. It is defined by the act to include any highway and any public bridge (not being a county bridge), and any road, […]
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District Councils
History Before the year 1848 there was not outside the municipal boroughs any system of district government in England. It is true that in some populous places which were not corporate boroughs local acts of parliament had been passed appointing improvement commissioners for the government of […]
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Urban District
History The municipal borough and the Borough Council A municipal borough is a place which has been incorporated by royal charter. In the year 1835 the Municipal Corporations Act was passed, which made provision for the constitution and government of certain boroughs which were enumerated in […]
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Asylums
History of the Asylums and the County Council powers Lunatics Part of the business transferred from quarter sessions to the council was that which related to pauper lunatics, but the whole subject of lunacy was consolidated by an act of the year 1890, which again has been amended by a later […]
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County Council Finances
Note: For information about the county council, click here. History Finance The county council is a body corporate with power to hold lands. Its revenues are derived from various sources which will presently be mentioned, but all receipts have to be carried to the county fund, either to […]