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to health: injury to health, however, if proved, rendered a nuisance
more considerable and important. It was impossible to
conceive that the vapour from such a brickfield, 600 yards
away, would not be in the least degree deleterious to health. An
explanation was suggested how it came to pass that the nuisance
would be variable, according to the conditions of the atmosphere,
and commonly worst at night. After reference to an argument
founded on the fact that the local board had not been prompt
in taking proceedings, his lordship concluded his judgment
by saying that there must be an injunction for the following
reasons—namely, because he was satisfied from the evidence that
there was in 1889 a nuisance which, according to the definition
laid down by the Lord Justice Knight Brace, when Vicechancellor,
in "Walter v. Self," was to be considered "as more
than fanciful, more than one of mere delicacy or fastidiousness,
as an inconvenience materially interfering with the ordinary
comforts, physically, of human existence, not merely according
to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living, but according
to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people;"
and further because he was also satisfied, if it was necessary to rely
upon that—which it was not—that the nuisance was one which
was calculated very greatly to interfere with, or be injurious to,
health; and because he was satisfied that the nuisance was one
which would depreciate the value of property in Bedford Park.
For those three reasons, any one of which would be sufficient, he
came to the conclusion above stated; judgment being given for
the local board with costs.]
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT.
HYDROPHOBIA.
The deaths from this disease in the Metropolis in 1889 were
7 in number (including 1 in Kensington), corresponding with the
corrected annual average for the ten years, 1879—88. In 1885,
the deaths were 27. The County Council, as the local authority
under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, by their