Public Expenditure 1870–1939 — Housing, Household Environmental Services, Police, Fire and Rescue Services, Administration of Justice, Public Utilities, Infrastructure, Miscellaneous Expenditure

Clive Lee
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Chapter 5 in The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom from 1870 to 2005, 2012, pp 104-127 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Every locality needs a variety of environmental services to be provided by some agency or agencies, including services that are consumed personally and privately, like sanitation and refuse collection, and some services that can be consumed communally such as public baths, a swimming pool or a park. In the course of the nineteenth century most local authorities in the United Kingdom provided the rudiments of modern sanitation for their citizens by laying a network of underground water pipes and sewers to provide a water supply to households and to allow toilet waste to be removed from them. Local authorities also collected household rubbish periodically. The growth of household environmental services is shown in Figure 5.1, as is the growth of expenditure on Police, Fire and Rescue Services, Administration of Justice, and on Housing.

Keywords: Local Authority; Housing Market; Public Expenditure; Late Nineteenth Century; City Council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230367319_6

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