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into force "firmly and upon principle" in every suitable case, on
the ground that there would be no temptation to disregard the
Vestry's Notices when it became known that nuisances would be
abated, and sanitary works executed, at the cost of negligent or
defaulting owners or occupiers. He also referred to the need of
amendment of law in regard to water supply; and to the propriety
of constituting the Sanitary Authority the "Local
Authority," for all purposes save making of bye-laws, under the
Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1885, and under
the Slaughter Houses (Metropolis) Act, 1874.] The Committee
note that by section 7 in the Public Health (Metropolis) Bill,
1885, it was proposed to empower the Justices to inflict a
penalty, on the person liable, for the offence of causing a nuisance,
as recommended in the report of the Medical Officer, and that
the Medical Officer's view that "a statutory duty" should be
imposed on Sanitary Authorities, requiring them to execute the
powers entrusted to them, has been imposed by section 17 of
the Housing of the Working Classes (England) Act, 1885.
The Committee concur, in regard to the necessity for amendment
of the law in relation to the Water Supply question;
and with reference to the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops
Order, and to the Regulations framed under the Slaughterhouses
Act, they mention that the Vestry have on various
occasions fully endorsed the views of the Medical Officer,
and have urged other Sanitary Authorities to support their efforts
to obtain amendment of the law.
After dealing with "Recommendations" contained in the
Surveyor's Report, which treated of "matters which can only
indirectly be deemed of a sanitary nature, viz., by tending to
prevent the creation of nuisance," the Committee, in " supplementary
"observations, refer to need of legislative enactment
to provide for "notice to be given to the Sanitary Authority
when it is intended to alter the drainage of an existing house or
building."They would be glad to see some such machinery, for
adapting the law to the requirements of the times, available in