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for human habitation in such a state as to be a nuisance or
injurious or dangerous to health, and the magistrate made an
order prohibiting such occupier from allowing the recurrence of
the said or a like nuisance.
Proceedings were also taken against the owner of a house in
the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, for neglecting to provide a
sufficient ash-pit to such house, and he was fined 5s., and 4s. costs.
Proceedings were also taken against the occupiers of two
pieces of land in the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, upon which
was carried on the manufacture and burning of bricks causing
effluvia, and which manufacture had been certified to the Sanitary
Authority by one of its Medical Officers of Health to be a
nuisance and dangerous to the health ol the inhabitants
residing in the vicinity of such brickfields. The summonses
came on for hearing in the first place before one of the
magistrates not regularly sitting at the Greenwich Police
Court, but he said that they would occupy several sittings of the
Court and he could not hear them. They were accordingly
adjourned until a date when a newly-appointed magistrate for
that Court would be sitting. On their coming on before him he
pointed out that such cases were more expeditiously and
economically heard in the High Court, but on being told this
course would not be agreeable to the parties he proceeded to
hear the summonses, which, after some evidence had been given,
were further adjourned. On the appointed day the hearing was
further proceeded with, and at the conclusion of that sitting the
magistrate adjourned the summonses sine die, leaving Counsel to
make arrangements for proceeding with them after the legal Long
Vacation had terminated. When that period arrived, however,