A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Power to (Nuisance) Authority to appoint Committees. What are deemed nuisanees under this Act. Notice of nuisance to he given to [Nui'sance] Authority, &c to ground Froceedings. Power of Entry to (Nuisance) Authority or their officer. the execution of this act, the expenses of its execution, the descrip- tion of nuisances that may be dealt with under it, and the powers of entry for the puiposcs of the act, be it enacted thus : 6. The Nuisance Authority may appoint any committee of their own body to receive notices, take proceedings, and in all or certain specified respects execute this act, whereof two shall be a quorum ; and such Nuisance Authority, or their committee, may, in each parti- cular case, by order in writing under the hand of the chairman of such body or committee, empower any officer or person to make complaints and take proceedings on their behalf. [For appointment of Officers of Health, see Public Health Act, Ire- land, 1874, sec. 10. Sections 6 and 7 are repealed by the Act of 1860, 23 and 24 Vict., c. 77, sec. 1.] 8. The word nuisance under this act shall include— Any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health: Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit so foul as to be a nuisance or injurious to health: Any animal so kept as to be a nuisance or injurious to health : Any accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance or injurious to health: Provided always, that no such accumulation or deposit as shall be necessary for the effectual carrying on of any business or manufacture shall be punishable as a nuisance under this section, when it is proved to the satisfaction of the justices that the accumulation or deposit has not been kept longer than is necessary for the purposes of such busi- ness or manufacture, and that the best available means have been taken for protecting the public from injury to health thereby, a [Sec. 9 is repealed by the Act of I860.] 10. b Notice of nuisance may be given to the Nuisance Authority by any person aggrieved thereby, or by any of the following persons : the sanitary inspector or any paid officer under the said Nuisance Authority; two or more inhabitant householders of the parish or place ' to which the notice relates ; the relieving officer of the union or parish; any constable or any officer of the constabulary or police force of the dis- trict or place ; and in case the premises be a common lodgmg house, any person appointed for the inspection of common lodgmg houses ; and the Nuisance Authority may take cognizance of any such nuisance after entry made as hereinafter provided, or in conformity with any improvement act under which the inspector has been appointed. 11. The Nuisance Authority shall have power of entry for the fol- lowing purposes of this act, and under the following conditions :— (1.) To ground proceedings. For this purpose, when they or any of their officers have reasonable grounds for believing that a nuisance exists on any private premises, demand may be made by them or their officer, on any person having custody of the premises, of admission to inspect the same at anj- hour between nine in the morning and six in the evening, and if admission be not granted £iny justice having jurisdiction in the place may, on oath made before him of belief in the existence of the nuisance, and after reasonable notice of the intended application to such justice matter whether this structure had a roof or whether it was fastened by s^^^^^^ means or other into the earth or not; it was a structiire in which the bu^mess of betting could be and was conducted, and in my o.uuon rly came ^^^^^Jf meaning of the words office or place, as used in the act.—Shaw v. MoUcy, 6i L J. N. S. M. C. 105. a The word nuisance has been further defined in sec. 19 of the Sanitary Act, 18R6, page 13. 6 See schedule, page 395, for form of notice.