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"The [1846] Liverpool Sanitary Act – ‘the first piece of comprehensive health legislation passed in England’ – made the Council responsible for drainage, paving, sewerage and cleaning. It also appointed a Council Medical Officer of Health – another first." It was strengthened by a further Act in 1864.

 

[[St-Martins-Cottages_Liverpool_completed-1869_1944-photo.jpg|476px|thumb|right|St Martin’s Cottages, completed in 1869 in Ashfield Street, Vauxhall]]