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which not only, from time to time, are definite nuisances to adjoining residents,
but continuously add their quota, small or large, to the pollution of the
atmosphere. The powers dealing with these are contained in the following
enactments:—
Effluvia and Offensive Trades,
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Section 19. — Prohibition and regulation of establishing anew certain offensive
businesses, and by-laws as to offensiveibusinesses.
(1) If any person—
(a) establishes anew the following businesses, or any of them; that
is to say, the business of blood boiler, bone boiler, manure
manufacturer, soap boiler, tallow melter, or knacker; or
(b) establishes anew, without the sanction of the County Council, the
following businesses, or any of them; that is to say, the business
of fellmonger, tripe boiler, slaughterer of cattle or horses, or any
other business which the County Council may declare, by order
confirmed by the Local Government Board and published in the
" London Gazette," to be an offensive business, he shall be liable to
a fine not exceeding fifty pounds in respect of the establishment
thereof, and any person carrying on the same when established
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds for every day
during which he so carries on the same :
(2) Provided that this enactment shall not render any person liable to a
fine for establishing anew, with the sanction of the County Council,
or carrying on, the business of soap boiler, if and as long as that
business is a business in which tallow or any animal fat or oil other than
olien is not used by admixture with alkali for the production of soap.
(3) The County Council shall give their sanction by order, but, at least
fourteen days before making any such older, shall make public the
application for it, by serving on the sanitary authority within whose
district the premises on which the business is proposed to be established
are situate, and by advertising, notice of the application and of the
time and place at which they will be willing to hear all persons
objecting to the order, and by causing a copy of the notice to be
fixed in a conspicuous part of the said premises ; and they shall
consider any objections made at that time and place, and shall grant
or withhold their sanction as they think expedient.
(4) The County Council may make by-laws for regulating the conduct of
any businesses specified in this section, which are for the time being
lawfully carried on in London, and the structure of the premises on
which any such business is being carried on, and the mode in which
the said application is to be made.
(5) Any such by-law may empower a petty sessional court by summary
order to deprive any person, either temporarily or permanently, of