Volume 2

Sanitation / edited by the professional staff of The Bennett College ... J. Webster ; assisted by A. H. Winterburn.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1920]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sanitation / edited by the professional staff of The Bennett College ... J. Webster ; assisted by A. H. Winterburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or manufacture, and that the best available means have been taken for preventing injury thereby to the public health. <f Secondly. That where a person is summoned before any court in respect of a nuisance arising from a fireplace or furnace which does not consume the smoke arising from the combustible used in such fireplace or furnace, the court shall hold that no nuisance is created within the meaning of this Act, and dismiss the complaint, if it is satisfied that such fireplace or furnace is constructed in such manner as to consume as far as practicable, having regard to the manufacture or trade, all smoke arising therefrom, and that such fireplace or furnace has been carefully attended to by the person having the charge thereof.” By Section 92 of this Act, it is the duty of every Local Authority to cause inspection to be made of their district from time to time for the purpose of ascertaining if nuisances exist calling for abatement under the provisions of the Act, and to enforce such provisions. Any person who is aggrieved by any nuisance may give iniormation of the same, under Section 93, to the Local Authority of the district. The Local Authority, under powers conferred in Section 94, can serve a notice requiring the abatement of any nuisance. Should the terms of such notice not be complied with in the time specified, the Local Authority, by virtue of Section 95, may make complaint to a Justice. Section 96 gives power to a court of summary jurisdiction to make an order to abate a nuisance, and where deemed necessary impose a penalty. In any case where a nuisance is proved to render a house or building unfit for human habitation, the court may, by Section 97, grant an order prohibiting such house to be occupied until such nuisance has been removed, and on the court being satisfied that such nuisance has been abated, they may withdraw the prohibition and again allow the house to be let for human habitation. Should any person not obey an order of the court for abating a nuisance, the court may inflict a penalty under Section 98. Appeals may be made against an order granted by a court of summary jurisdiction. Such appeals to be to the quarter sessions, as stated in Section 99. By Section 100 an order of court may be addressed to and executed by the Local Authority, where the author of the nuisance or the owner or occupier of any premises is not known or cannot be found. Section 101.—Where, in dealing with a nuisance, the Local Authority have had to remove any matter or thing, the Local