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SANITARY POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. 25
A further clause of very extensive application enables
you to deal generally with all cases, where
unwholesome provisions are exposed for sale; and
this clause is so constructed as to include and
render penal all those fraudulent adulterations of
food which render it detrimental to health.
8. You are invested with important authority
against such trades and occupations as are offensive
or injurious to their neighbourhood. Under your
former Act, you can subject to penalties any person
who shall "roast or burn, boil, distil, or otherwise
decompose any root, drug, or other article or thing,
in any house or building, and thereby cause offensive
or injurious smells or vapours to be emitted
therefrom, so as to become a common nuisance;"
and the same Act also gives you a very inoperative
clause against such nuisance-causing manufactories
as might begin to work in the City after the
commencement of that Act.
Your new law enacts that everything practicable
shall be done for the suppression of all nuisances
arising in manufactures and the like:—that, after
the first of January next, every furnace used in the
City shall be such as to consume its own smoke;
and that whatever trade or business may occasion
noxious or offensive effluvia, or otherwise annoy the
inhabitants of its neighbourhood, shall be required to
employ, to your satisfaction, the best known means
for preventing or counteracting such annoyance.