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the last mentioned magistrate had been transferred from the
Greenwich to the Southwark and North London Police Courts.
He was applied to, to proceed with the summonses but said he
could not go back to Greenwich to hear them, and would have
to hear them at Southwark, but the Chief Clerk there pointed out
that all the time of that Court was absorbed for some months to
come. It was therefore obvious that if the summonses were
heard at all they could only be heard in such scraps of time as
could from time to time be given to them at Southwark. To
conduct business in this way was obviously impracticable in
consequence of the delay and expense which would have been
involved, and consequently it was agreed with the Solicitors of the
defendants that no further proceedings should be taken on those
summonses, but, at the same time, it was pointed out to the
defendants' Solicitors that if further certificates were given,
certifying those manufactories to be a nuisance, or dangerous
to the health of any of the inhabitants of the district,
the Board would have no option but to commence proceedings
de novo.
Proceedings were also taken against the owner of two newlyerected
houses in the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, for permitting
those houses to be occupied- as dwelling houses without it
having been certified by the Sanitary Authority that such houses
had a proper and sufficient supply of water, and the magistrate
ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of £5, and 2s. costs, in
respect of each of such two houses.
Proceedings were also taken against the occupier of certain
premises in the Parish of Greenwich, used as a dairy and cowsheds,
for making default in complying with the requisition of a notice