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Legal Proceedings.— In 64 cases proceedings were taken
before the magistrates : in 12 instances for offences under the
byelaws for registered houses, fines to the aggregate amount of
£7 17s. 6d. being imposed. In other 27 cases the offence
alleged was failure to comply with the requirements of notices
issued by the sanitary authority, fines of £5, £3, £3, £2, £1,
£1 10s, 10s, and 10s., (total £17 10s.) being imposed in nine
cases.
Neglect of notices issued by the sanitary authority is but
too common, the result being that much of the time of the
inspectors is wasted in fruitless "re-inspections." In every
such case—as when the work has not been put in hand at a
date when it should have been completed—the prescribed fine
should be applied for, seeing that disobedience to notices not
only leads to waste of the officers' time, but is also disrespectful
to the sanitary authority.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only business coming under the statutory description
"offensive," other than that of a slaughterer of cattle, carried
on in this parish, is that of a Fat extractor, at Tobin-street,
in the Potteries, Notting-dale. The conduct of this business
gives rise to more or less effluvium nuisance, despite improved
arrangements, and care on the part of the proprietor, and
supervision by your Vestry's inspector as well as by the
inspector of the London County Council. Not for the first
time, more than ten inhabitants of the locality certified this
business to your Vestry, in May, to be (in the words of section
21 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891), "a nuisance or
injurious or dangerous to the health" of themselves and other
" inhabitants of the district." The section requires that upon
receipt of such a certificate, the sanitary authority shall —
" Make a complaint, and if it appears to the petty sessional court hearing
the complaint, that the trade, business, etc., carried on by the person
complained of is a nuisance, or causes any effluvia which is a nuisance