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under which provincial Sanitary Authorities had effected great
improvement in the Sanitation of their districts. A condensed
synopsis of its provisions here will be useful for reference.
Sec. I provides for house to house inspection by the
Sanitary Authority, for which additional Inspectors with separate
and smaller districts have been appointed within the last two
years.
Sec. 2.—A nuisance must be abated that is dangerous or
likely to be dangerous to health. Under the Metropolis Management
and other Acts it was necessary to prove actual injury to
health.
Sec. 3 provides that information of a nuisance may be made
to the Sanitary Authority, who shall serve intimation to parties
responsible.
Sec. 4.—The most essential difference between the procedure
under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the various
other preceding Acts, is that formerly if a notice to abate a
nuisance from the Sanitary Authority was not complied with,
proceedings had to be commenced before a justice and evidence
produced to satisfy him that a nuisance injurious to health
existed, when, if satisfied that such nuisance existed and was
injurious to health an order would be made for the abatement of
the same. If this order was disregarded and the necessary
works not executed it was necessary to commence fresh proceedings
to recover penalties. The Sanitary Authority under
this section itself considers the matter and makes orders, if
necessary suing for penalties for non-compliance therewith.
Absence of proper water-fittings is constituted a nuisance
under section 4, and by section 5 a house may be closed for this
reason. The Authority can specify works and insist upon the
carrying out of the same under the latter section and now does
so in a large proportion of cases.