Title: Books, Baths and Burials: notes on certain nineteenth century adoptive Acts
Abstract: Early legislation relating to street lighting, baths and washhouses, burial of the dead, public libraries and "public improvements" in England and Wales, reflected Parliament's suspicion of local democracy and distrust of local authorities. Powers granted were subject to local adoption of the legislation and Parliament imposed restrictions regarding both the adoption procedure and the exercise of powers after adoption, the extreme case being the Public Libraries Act, 1850. Removal of the restrictions and simplification of the adoption procedure occurred only gradually and the adoptive principle was not finally abandoned until 1972.
Publication Year: 1973
Publication Date: 1973-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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