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the Justices' Order after summons; this, moreover, being rarely
inflicted to an adequate extent. Hence the need for the Yestry's
interference, as recommended by the Committee, in sections
and 6, under the Nuisances Removal and the Metropolis
Management Acts.] The Committee" are of opinion that all
proper cases involving infringement of the law should be
brought before the Justices, who will no doubt exercise their
judgment in each case; especially if the importance of assisting
the Vestry in efforts to improve the health of the Parish be
brought prominently to their attention.
18. Amendment of the Law.—Summary Powers
Needed.—[The Medical Officer of Health had reported upon
the need for additional powers, ''imposing on the Nuisance
Authority a Statutory Duty to proceed in a summary manner
to abate nuisances and to carry out works of sanitary construction
as well as power to the Justices to inflict a
penalty for the offence of causing a nuisance." He urged the
duty of putting existing laws 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 for amendment of the
law in regard to water supply; and to the propriety of
constituting the Sanitary Authority as "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 of 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