Excerpt from A Handy Digest of More Than 2750 Cases Relating to Public Health and Local Government: With More Especial Reference to the Powers and Duties of Local Authorities, Including County Councils

Some years ago, when preparing for press the 8th Edition of in Digest of the Law Relating to Public Health and Local Government, I arrived at the conclusion that, owing to the immense increase in the number of the Cases on the subjects dealt with in that Work, which year by year were coming before the Superior Courts, the time was approaching when it would be expedient to gather those Cases into a separate volume. That time has, I think, now fully arrived, and hence the publication of the present Digest.

The classification of the Cases conforms in the main to that originally adopted, but the very large number of new Cases which have been reported since 1881 has rendered satisfactory classification very difficult, and good indexing more than ordinarily important. The indexes will I trust be found very full and therefore useful. Any one who has studied with attention the Cases which have come before the Courts of Law during recent years under the great stimulus given to Municipal matters in Town and Country alike, will readily understand how difficult is the task of drawing lines of demarcation between subject and subject. Having had occasion to exhibit Cases relating to Bates and Public Libraries in new editions of my Works on those subjects, questions relating to Eating and Libraries (including Museums, Parks and Recreation Grounds) will, as a rule, not be found in the present volume. Subject to this reservation, this work therefore is intended to exhibit generally all the Cases relating to Public Health and Local Government in the widest sense of those phrases.

Inasmuch as the Highway Cases and the Cases decided under the "Local Government Act, 1888, " "all hang very much together respectively, and readily yield to a comprehensive and convenient system of Classification, they have been put together in separate "Parts" (being Part II. and Part III. respectively), the 1st and principal "Part" containing all the Cases which may be said to cluster round the "Public Health Act, 1875, " and its affiliated Acts, now very numerous and important. It ought to be added, however, that Cases decided under the "Municipal Corporations Acts, " the "Poor Law Acts, " and the Burial Acts, are not included, unless they have some special bearing on the subject of Local Government generally, that is to say, on the powers and duties of County Councils, Local Boards, Boards of Guardians, &c., , in their aspect of Local Administrative Authorities.

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