Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878^[1]
Dates
Act of Parliament

Long title	An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Public Health in Ireland.
Citation	41 & 42 Vict. c. 52
Territorial extent	Ireland
Royal assent	8 August 1878
Other legislation
Relates to	Public Health Act 1875
Status
Republic of Ireland	Partially repealed
Northern Ireland	Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 52) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which introduced a comprehensive code of sanitary law in Ireland.^[2]

References

Vanston, George Thomas Barrett. The Law relating to Public Health in Ireland: being the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, and amending Acts. With notes of all reported decisions, tables of cases and statutes, and an index. E Ponsonby. Dublin. 1892. Catalogue.
William Dudley Wodsworth. The Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878. Alexander Thom. Dublin. 1878. Catalogue. Reviewed at (1878) 2 The Medical Press and Circular 322 (16 October).
Galligan and McGrath. "Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878". Compulsory Purchase and Compensation in Ireland: Law and Practice. Second Edition. Bloomsbury Professional. 2013. Paragraphs 4.02 to 4.09 at pages 151 to 153.

^ This short title was given to this Act by section 1 of this Act.
^ Haslam, Richard (2004). "Chapter 2: The origins of Irish local government". In Callanan, Mark; Keogan, Justin F. (eds.). Local government in Ireland : inside out (2nd ed.). Dublin: Institute of public administration. p. 20. ISBN 9781902448930.