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merely applied to such a state of premises, ditches,
gutters, water-courses, privies, urinals, cesspools,
drains, or ash-pits, or to any animal so kept, as
to be in either case a nuisance or injurious to
health; but now it includes any house, or part of
a house, so overcrowded as to be dangerous or prejudicial
to the health of the inmates; any factory,
workshop, or work-place not already under the
operation of any general Act for the Regulation of
Factories, or Bake-houses not kept in a cleanly
condition, or not ventilated in such a manner as to
render harmless, as far as practicable, any gases,
vapours, dust, or other impurities, generated in the
course of the work carried on therein, that are a
nuisance, or injurious or dangerous to health, or so
overcrowded while work is carried on as to be
dangerous or prejudicial to the health of those
employed therein; and any lire-place, or furnace,
or chimney, not being the chimney of a private
dwelling-house, sending forth black smoke in such
quantity as to be a nuisance. The Act also provides
for the inspection of shipping within the
jurisdiction of the nuisance authority—a ship or
vessel being regarded in the same manner as if it
were a house within such jurisdiction, and the
master or other officer in charge of it as the
occupier.
Moreover the Act imposes on the local authority