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the owner or occupier of the workshop, or if lie neglected to
carry out the requirements of the notice, the Magistrate would
be justified in refusing to make an Order, or to inflict the fine
attaching to disobedience of a proper notice. To obviate this
difficulty it would be necessary for me, or one of the Sanitary
Inspectors, to visit every workshop in respect of which a
notice was required for works of cleansing, &c., a very undesirable
course. The work of the Inspectors is carried out
mainly under the above cited 25th Section ; but they have
also to take cognizance of Section 2 (1) {g), which includes in
the list of nuisances ' liable to be dealt with summarily under
the Act,'
"' Any factory, workshop, or workplace, which is not a
factory subject to the provisions of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1878, relating to cleanliness, ventilation, and overcrowding,
and
(i.) is not kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia
arising from any drain, privy, earth-closet, watercloset,
urinal, or other nuisance ; or
(ii.) is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless,
as far as practicable, any gases, vapours, dust, or other
impurities generated in the course of the work carried
on therein, that are a nuisance, or injurious, or dangerous
to health ; or
(iii.) is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be
injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed
therein.'
" It must be manifest, I think, that the duties the Inspectors
are called upon to discharge under this section also, would
be facilitated were they ' vested with the status of Sanitary
Inspectors.' The question, therefore, whether the recent
decision of your Vestry on the subject, may not with advantage
be reconsidered at no distant date, is one to which I