Chapter VII: Recognised Principles of Legislation and State of the

EXISTING LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH:— 279

Necessity of legislative interference for the protection of
the health of the population 279

Spread of old evils in unprotected new districts by
inefficient legislation 280

Dangers of increased charges for inefficient sanitary
measures shifting without improving the population 282

Expulsion of labourers from old tenements without providing
appropriate new ones, not invariably beneficial 286

Advantages in the regulation of the sites of dwellings 287

_General state of the law for the protection of the public
health_:— 288

Medical police in Germany 288

Existing laws for the protection of the public health in
England 289

Early state of the law for the protection of the public
health 291

_State of the special authorities for reclaiming the
execution of the laws for the protection of the public
health_:— 296

General desuetude of the laws for the protection of the
public health 296

State of the administration of the laws for the protection
of the public health, by court leets and local trusts 299

_State of the local executive authorities for the erection
and maintenance of drains and other works for the
protection of the public health_:— 302

State of the obstructions to land drainage and works of
private profit redounding to the public health 302

Injuries to private property as well as to the public
health, occasioned by defective administration 305

Continuance of the causes of disease in the face of
representations of their effects on the population 307

Areas of jurisdiction for drainage inconsistent with
efficient operations 309

Prevalent misconceptions as to the objects and state of
management of existing sewerage 311

Objections made to the existing local administration of the
sewers’ rate 315

Securities requisite to obviate opposition to new
expenditure for sewerage 316

Necessity of the subordinate drainage of private tenements
being comprehended as part of one system 319

Disturbing local interests opposed to efficient management
of expenditure in new districts 322

Obstacles arising from defective local arrangements for
efficient expenditure in local public works 323

Inconveniences of legislation on details, and the want of
scientific and trustworthy direction 328

High rates of charges, by fees, for superintendence of
imperfect structural arrangements 329

Extent of waste in expenditure on local public works, and on
separate collections 333

Public facilities for private land drainage afforded by
consolidation 337

Grounds of unpopularity and distrust of new local
expenditure 339

_Boards of Health or public officers for the prevention of
disease_:— 340

Inefficiency of Boards of Health, as ordinarily constituted 340

Failure of Boards of Health in Ireland 342

Importance of the functions of medical officers in connexion
with the executive authority 343

Means and economy of skilled services for the prevention of
diseases 348

Administrative measures for the prevention of disease
amongst the labouring classes 349

Administrative means for promoting the extension of medical
science 352