William A. Casson
Published: 2015-07-26
Total Pages: 410
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Excerpt from Knight's Annotated Model Byelaws: Comprising the Model Series of the Local Government Board, Under the Public Health Acts; With Diagrams and Approved Additional and Alternative Clauses Twenty-Two years have elapsed since the first edition of this work made its appearance, and the book still stands alone as an authoritative exponent of official practice in connection with byelaws that are required by law to be confirmed by the Local Government Board. The now famous model code of byelaws which was issued by the Local Government Board in 1877 and subsequent years for the guidance of local authorities in framing byelaws under the Public Health Acts, has become the standard type to which most byelaws now conform, and it has brought about many improvements in the mode of constructing buildings and of carrying out sanitary arrangements. Soon after the Local Government Board model code was issued, it became apparent that, although the byelaws in themselves were simple enough, it was necessary that their aims and objects should be explained; and no one could do this better than those professional advisers of the Board who had been concerned in framing the model code itself. Hence it happened that Mr. Percival Gordon Smith, the architect of the Local Government Board, and Sir Richard Thorne-Thorne, who subsequently became the chief medical officer of the Board, set to work to produce an annotated edition of the official model series so far as sanitary matters were concerned. I was myself then in charge of the byelaw branch of the legal department of the Board, and was associated with my co-authors through all the previous editions of this work, until their death. All the preceding editions have dealt only with the Local Government Board's models relating to cleansing of footways, removal of house refuse, etc., nuisances, common lodging-houses, new streets and buildings, and slaughter-houses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
