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constantly on the alert. The police have given
their aid. Photography has been employed to
fix upon the exact source of the nuisance, and
offenders have been prosecuted, but the result
cannot be regarded as encouraging. In Sixtythree
cases the Inspector served official
notices or warnings. Forty-six have been
reported to the Sanitary Committee, and
six prosecutions instituted to enforce the law,
but the convictions have been unimportant, and
certainly not prohibitory.
In the succeeding table it will be noted that
out of Six cases heard before a magistrate Five
were dismissed with an "abatement" order, and
no fine inflicted, although some of them were
old offenders, and had been previously convicted,
and in the face of the clearest evidence
that the nuisance was a recurring one in spite
of many warnings from the Smoke Inspector,
before legal measures were resorted to.