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hot clinker on its receipt into the barges. Further, it was
found that the small holes, which had been made in the
bepper covers of the cells for the purpose of stoking, were
leaky, admitting the escape of large quantities of fumes and
smoke on to the wharf. The Town Clerk of the City of
Westminster was communicated with, with the result that
the nuisance complained of was abated—the cooling of the
clinker being carried out before discharging it into the barges,
and the defective holes in the hopper covers being repaired.
EFFLUVIUM NUISANCES
(1) Nuisance from Fumes and Vapour Escaping from
Motor Vehicle.
On Friday, May 11th, at 9.20 a.m., the Sanitary Inspector
noticed a motor van, belonging to Messrs. Hyde and Co.,
Bird Food Specialists, of Lilford Road, proceeding along
Acre Lane towards Clapham, and emitting fumes in such
large quantities as to obscure from view anything else in the
roadway for at least 100 yards, and causing an offensive
nuisance. There would appear to be no provision in the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, for dealing with such a
nuisance, though a summons was taken out by a Metropolitan
Authority in 1907, against a motor car driver, for
allowing a quantity of "filth," i.e., refuse oil, to fall from
the engine of his omnibus on to the roadway, and the Magistrate
(Mr. Hopkins) at the Lambeth Police Court inflicted a
nominal penalty on the driver, amounting to 5s. with 3s.
costs. The Commissioner of Police has since given notice
to the various Motor Omnibus Companies to the effect that
the regulations with reference to dropping of oil from motor
omnibuses on to the roads will be strictly enforced. In 1907
a case was also heard in the Appeal Court in connection with
a summons against the owner of a motor car, charging an
offence under Section 30 of the Highways and Locomotives
Amendment Act of 1878, and the Magistrate's conviction
was quashed on the ground that, as the nuisance was due to