KNIGHT'S ANNOTATED MODEL BYELAWS.

ANNOTATED

MODEL BYELAWS

COMPRISING THE MODEL SERIES OF

THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD,

UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS,

WITH RESPECT TO CLEANSING OF FOOTWAYS, ASHPITS, PRIVIES, ETC.,
AND THE REMOVAL OF HOUSE REFUSE, NUISANCES, COMMON
LODGING-HOUSES, NEW STREETS AND BUILDINGS (URBAN
AND RURAL), AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES

AND

KNIGHT'S MODEL BYELAWS AS APPROVED BY THE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1890,
RELATING TO NUISANCES, STREETS AND BUILDINGS (STRENGTH OF
TIMBERS AND OTHER MATTERS), AND ALTERATION OF BUILDINGS,
AND APPROVED MODELS AS TO REFUSE REMOVAL,
DRAINAGE OF EXISTING BUILDINGS,
AND OTHER MATTERS.

WITH DIAGRAMS AND APPROVED
ADDITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE CLAUSES.

SEVENTH EDITION.

EDITED AND REVISED BY

WILLIAM A. CASSON,

OF THE

MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN CIRCUIT;
LATE OF THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.

KNIGHT & CO.,
Local Government Publishers,

LONDON.

1905.

Jub. 8, 1911

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
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PRINTED BY

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.

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241, A5

1905

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION.

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 ThorneThorne, 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. On the passing of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, local authorities by whom the provisions of that Act were adopted, or to whose districts they were applied by orders issued by the Local Government Board, obtained power to make byelaws relating to many matters that were not covered by the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, and I thereupon drafted several series of model clauses for