The Public Health (London) Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which extended access to Metropolitan Asylums Board hospitals to those who were not eligible for poor relief.
The act transferred responsibility for removing snow from footpaths from individual householders to the London vestries and district boards.
The act required sanitary authorities (the London vestries and district boards) to provide mortuaries. This had previously been a right but was now an obligation.
Section 142(1) of the act repealed 35 enactments, listed in the fourth schedule to the act.
Section 142(5) of the act provided so much of the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55) as re-enacted sections 51 and 52 of the Sanitary Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 90) and sections 34âÂÂ36 of the Public Health Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 79) would extend to London.
The whole act was repealed by section 308 of, and the seventh schedule to, the Public Health (London) Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 50).