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proved an effective remedy. It would be a boon to London in the heat of summer
if a Bye-law could be obtained to enforce this method of storage and removal from
premises on which more than a certain quantity of manure and litter accumulates
within twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
NUISANCES.
A large number of nuisances of various kinds were dealt with during the year
and Table 11a in the Appendix shows the requirements demanded to abate them.
Steam Whistles.—It may not be generally known that there is an Act, entitled
"The Steam Whistles Act, 1872," in which it is provided as follows:—
2.— "No person shall use or employ in any manufactory, or any other
place, any steam whistle or steam trumpet for the purpose of summoning
or dismissing workmen or persons employed without the
sanction of the Sanitary Authority; and every person offending
against this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five
pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for
every day during which such offence continues. Provided always,
that the sanitary authority, in case they have sanctioned the use of
any such instrument as aforesaid, may at any time revoke such sanction
on giving one month's notice to the person using the same.
Provided also, that it shall be lawful for the Local Government
Board, on representation made to them by any person that he is
prejudicially affected by such sanction, to revoke the same, and such
revocation shall have the same force and effect as if it had been
made by the Sanitary Authority.
3.—"Sanitary Authority" means the authority at the time being empowered
to execute the Nuisance Removal Acts, as defined and
extended by the Sanitary Act, 1886.
4.—All offences and penalties under this Act may be prosecuted and
recovered in England in manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction
Act, 1848, and any Acts amending the same, and in Ireland.
SUMMONSES
Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and Metropolis Local
Management Acts.