STUDIES  IN  ECONOMICS  AND  POLITICAL  SCIENCE.
Edited  by  the  HON.   W.   PEMBER  REEVES,   Ph.D.,

Director  of  the  London  School  of  Economics  and  Political  Science.
No.  46  in  the  Series  of  Monographs  by  Writers  connected
with  the  London  School  of  Economics  and  Political  Science.
ENGLISH  PUBLIC  HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION


ENGLISH
PUBLIC    HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION


BY

B.   G.   BANNINGTON

INSPECTOR    OF    NUISANCES,    COUNTY    BOROUGH    OF    WEST     HAM

CERT.,     ROYAL     SANITARY    INSTITUTF.  ;     GILCHRIST     MEDALLIST

POLITICAL  science;    SOCIETY  OF  ARTS   MEDALLIST    ECONOMICS

LATE    SCHOLAR,    LONPON    SCHOOL   OF   ECONOMICS


INTRODUCTION     BY
GRAHAM    WALLAS,    M.A.
CORPUS    CHRISTI    COLLEGE,    OXFORD,    PROFESSOR   OF    POLITICAL
SCIENCE    IN    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF   LONDON


LONDON

P.    S.    KING    &    SON,    LTD.
ORCHARD    HOUSE,    WESTMINSTER

1915


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UPRARt


PUBLIC
HEALTH
LIBRARY


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PREFACE.
There  are  many  good  books  dealing  with  sanitary
administration.  They  are,  however,  as  a  rule  divisible
into  two  classes  ;  they  are  either  purely  formal  legal
works  giving  the  text  of  the  various  Acts  of  Parliament
annotated  by  comments  and  references  to  judicial
decisions,  or  they  are  practical  handbooks  for  sanitary
officers,  and  contain,  mixed  \\ith  many  administrative
matters,  information  about  methods  of  laying  and  testing
drains,  distinctions  between  sound  and  unsound  food,
hints  upon  the  cultivation  and  recognition  of  pathogenic
bacteria,  etc.  None  of  them  treat  the  public  health
department  as  an  administrative  unit  of  the  system  of
local  government.  This  book  is  an  attempt  to  rectify
this  omission  by  providing  a  survey  of  the  administrative
technique  of  the  public  health  department.
