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Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It was followed by some twenty nine amending Acts which were repealed and consolidated by the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary code for England outside the metropolis. This Act has been since amended and extended by subsequent statutes. The latest is the Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), which, as from 1st October, 1937, consolidates many of the provisions of earlier legislation, without, however, repealing parts of the Public Health Acts of 1875, 1890, 1907 and 1925. The Act repeals and replaces among other enact-ments and as from various dates respectively provided by the Act: the whole of the Baths and Wash-houses A...
Health
Health, The state of being sound or whole in body, mind, or soul; freedom from pain or sickness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Health, See QUARANTINE; ADULTERATION; VACCINATION; and PUBLIC HEALTH.The term health implies more than an absence of sickness. Medical care and health facilities not only protect against sickness but also ensures stable manpower for economic development. Facilities of health and medical care generate devotion and dedication to give the workers' best, physically as well as mentally, in productivity. It enables the worker to enjoy the fruit of his labour, to keep him physically fit and mentally alert for leading a successful, economic, social and cultural life. The medical facilities are, therefore, part of social security and like gilt-edged security, it would yield immediate return in the increased production or at any rate reduce absenteeism on grounds of sickness, etc. Health is thus a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely ...
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health)
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health). This Board was established by the (English) Local Government Board Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 70), which concentrated in one department of the Government 'the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government,' and transferred thereto all the powers of the Poor Law Board, all the powers of a Secretary of State as to registration of births, deaths, and marriages, public health, drainage, local government, etc. (as mentioned in scheduled Acts), and all powers of the Privy Council as to prevention of disease, and vaccination (as mentioned in scheduled Acts). The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919, s.11, transferred all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board to the Ministry of Health. All references in statutes to the Local Government Board must be read as referring to the Ministry of Health (S. 11, Sched. I.)....
Health Minister
Health Minister, The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 21), provided for theappointment of a Minister of Health, to whom it transferred (s. 3) all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board, Insurance Commissioners and Welsh Insurance Commissioners, and of the Board of Education respecting the medicalinspection and treatment of young persons and children, nursing and expectant mothers, and,generally, all the powers of various departments, boards, etc., respecting the preservation of health. Included in these functions is the administration of the Public Health Acts and Housing Acts. TheMinister sits in the House of Commons and is a member of the Cabinet....
Health care system
Health care system, means an institution or organisation engaged, either directly or indirectly, in health care for mothers, infants or pregnant women, and includes a health worker in private practice, a pharmacy, drug store and any association of health workers. [Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottle and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (41 of 1992), s. 2(d)]...
Ill health
Ill health, any disorder in health which incapacitates an individual from discharging the duties en-trusted to him or affects his work adversely or comes in the way of his normal and effective functioning can be covered by the said phrase. The phrase has also to be construed from the point of view of the consumers of the concerned products and services. If on account of a workman's disease or incapacity or debility in functioning, the resultant product or the service is likely to be affected in any way or to become a risk to the health, life or property of the consumer, the disease or incapacity has to be categorised as ill-health for the purpose of the said sub-clause. Otherwise, the purpose of production for which the services of the workman are engaged will be frustrated and worse still in cases such as the present one they will endanger the lives and the property of the consumers. The phrase would include cases of drivers who have developed a defective or sub-normal vision or eyesi...
Healthful
Full of health free from illness or disease well whole sound healthy as a healthful body or mind a healthful plant...
Medical Officer of Health
Medical Officer of Health. Under the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 106-112 each urban authority and each rural authority must appoint such an officer, and may make regulations as to his duties; and by s. 103, every county council may appoint such an officer; and see Public Health Act, 1936, s. 3, and 1st Sched. As to Port Health Districts; and HOUSING....
Bill of health
Bill of health, 'a certificate or instrument, signed by consuls or other proper authorities, delivered to the masters of ships at the time of their clearing out from ports or places suspected of being particularly subject to infectious disorders, certifying the state of health at the time that such ship sailed. A clean bill imports that at the time the ship sailed no infectious disorder was known to exist. A suspected bill, commonly called a touched patent or bill, imports that there were rumours of an infectious disorder, but it had not actually appeared. A foul bill, or the absence of a clean bill, imports that the place was infected when the vessel sailed.'-McCull. Com. Dict. see QUARANTINE....
Boards of Health
Boards of Health. See PUBLIC HEALTH....
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