PUBLIC HEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 272, 16 November 1910, Page 5

PUBLIC HEALTH.

LIMITATION OF AREAS. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. rThe latest addition to the Government's legislative programme is a Public Health Amendment Bill. It proposes that a local authority make by-laws prescribing the minimum frontage and area of land on which a dwelling-house may ibe erected, and that, in districts in which no sewerage works exist, the authority may, instead of raising a separate rate, levy an annual fee on the occupier of any property on which a dwelling-house is erected.

The provision is as follows:—"Bylaws' made under section 108 of the Public Health Act, 1908, may prescribe the iminimuni frontage and area of land on which a dwellinghouse may be erected in the district or any specified parr, thereof, provided 'that such ; area shall not te less than ohe-'fifth of an acre" in any district or specified part in which a sewerage system does, not exist."

The PuDlie Health Bill provides further that the governor may from time to time declare any defined part of New Zealand to be a vaccination area, in which the clauses of the principal Act relating to vaccination shall have effect, and no certificate of exemption may "be granted on account of a parent's conscientious objection to vaccination. Every Order-in-oouncil so issued shall Have effect within the vaccination area until revoked t>y a subsequent Order-in-Coun-cil. Except within a vaccination area no proceedings shall be — oi-rtuted' for recovery of a penalty for failure to .cause a child to toe vaccinated-. or .neglect on ithe part of a doctor 'to,.deliver a certificate. . ;