The Glasgow sanitary summary : being a handbook of the law relating to public health in Glasgow ; with appendix.

  • Glasgow Social Union.
Date:
1891
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    by a foul stable, byre, or pig-stye; by manure or rubbish heaps ; by overcrowding; by the unwholesome condition or overcrowding of any factory or workshop, and in other ways, details of which will be found in the Appendix, (i and 9.) General powers of entering premises in which there is reasonable ground for believing that a Nuisance exists are confened upon the Commissioners and their Officers, and whenever the Sanitarj’ Inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that the drains connected with any house or building are so defective as to cause risk to health, he may, after twenty-four hours’ notice (in tenement houses with- out the consent of the owner or occupier, and in other houses by warrant if objection be raised), apply the smoke test to the drains, and, if they are found to be defective, the owner must immediately carry out the necessary repairs, or construct drains where those in existence are insufficient; or the Commissioners may do the work, and recover the cost from the owner. {App. 33.) Any person who causes, or is responsible for, a Nuisance, is subject to a penalty, and to a further daily penalty until the Nuisance be removed. (App. i.) The intention of the Legislature is that all houses should be wholesome, and that life should not be made unwhole- some or even uncomfortable from external causes. When a Nuisance is found to exist, information should be lodged with the Sanitary Inspector, 1 Montrose Street, who will take proceedings to have it removed. (2) Whitewashing of Houses and Cleansing OF Houses, Clothing, Bedding, &c. On the certificate of the Medical Officer or any two registered practitioners, that a house, or any part of it, is in
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