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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 839 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LOCAL See also:
GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)
GOVERNMENT See also:
BOARD (O. Eng. bord)
BOARD , a See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of the See also:

UNITED

United See also:

KINGDOM

Kingdom, constituted in 1871. ft is the successor of the See also:

General Board of See also:

HEALTH

Health, established in 1848 pursuant to the Public Health See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of that See also:

YEAR

year. The General Board of Health continued in existence until 1854, when it was reconstituted. Its existence under its new constitution was originally limited to one year, but was extended from year to year until 1858, when it was allowed to expire, its See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers under the various acts for the prevention of diseases being transferred to the privy See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, while those which related to the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of local authorities passed to the secretary of See also:

state for the See also:

home department, to whose department the See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of See also:

OFFICERS

officers and clerks belonging to the board was transferred. This state of affairs continued until 1871, when the Local Government Board was created by the Local Government Board Act 1871. It consists of the See also:

lord See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the council, the five See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal secretaries of state, the lord privy See also:

seal, the See also:

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor of the See also:

EXCHEQUER

exchequer and a president appointed by the See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign. The board itself seldom meets, and the duties of the department are discharged by the president assisted by a See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary and a permanent secretary and a permanent staff. The president and one of the secretaries usually have seats in See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and the president is generally a member of the See also:

CABINET

cabinet. The See also:

SALARY

salary of the president, formerly £2000, was raised in r910 to £5000 a year. The hoard has all the powers of the secretary of state under the Public Health Act 1848, and the numerous subsequent acts See also:

RELATING

relating to sanitary matters and the government of sanitary districts; together with all the powers and duties of the privy council under the acts relating to the prevention of epidemic disease and to See also:

VACCINATION (from Lat. vacca, a cow)

vaccination. The powers and duties of the board have been largely added to by legislation since its creation; it may be said that the board exercises a general supervision over the numerous authorities to whom local government has been entrusted (see See also:

ENGLAND: Local Government). A See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee presided over by Lord See also:

Jersey in 1904 inquired into the constitution and duties of the board, but made no recommendation as to any See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change therein. It recommended, however, an increase in the salaries of the president and of the parliamentary and permanent secretaries.

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