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leed, or keep any kind or species of swine in any house, building, yard, garden, or
other hereditaments, situate and being in or within forty yards of any street or
public place in any parochial or other district, &c., and that any person or persons so
offending, shall forfeit or pay for every such offence, the sum of 40s., and shall also
forfeit the said swine to the Commissioners or Trustees, &c." In both these cases
a pecuniary fine was inflicted.
It may be desirable to mention, that a summons was taken out by Mr. Co ward
at the Worship Street Police Court, under the Nuisances Removal Act, " For that
certain houses situate in Little Love Court, were in such a condition as to be unfit
for human habitation," and on proof of which, an order was made by the magistrate,
"prohibiting the use thereof for that purpose until rendered fit for that purpose," &c.
An order for the ejectment of the tenants was also made, which was carried into
effect. The houses in question have since been ventilated, cleansed, and limewhited
throughout.
Another summons was taken out by Mr. Cowakd, under the Police Act,
against a woman named Wood, residing in New Castle Street, for throwing dirt and
ashes in the thoroughfare. A conviction was obtained, and a small fine inflicted.
This poor woman, most probably in ignorance of the law, committed the offence, and
was very properly leniently dealt with; but what apology can be made for the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, who hold the greater portion of Phosnix Street,
Quaker Street, and King Street, in which, nuisances highly prejudicial to health,
have been repeatedly found to exist, and who, instead of at once carrying out the
orders necessary for the abatement of these nuisances, delay the matter, and summonses
are obliged to be served to compel them to effect the required improvements.
If a fine in all such cases of wilful neglect were inflicted, the orders of your Inspectors
would be more promptly obeyed.
The annual visit of the several slaughter-houses was again made by committees
of your Board, accompanied by your Medical Officer of Health, and Inspectors of
Nuisances, when, in most instances, the regulations adopted by your Board, respecting
these places had been complied with, and in those where the regulations had not
been strictly observed, the parties faithfully promised to carry them out, and have
done so.
The cow-houses in the district are, from time to time, visited, and in 38 instances,
orders for the better cleansing of them have been given. The nuisance arising from
the cows being kept in a cellar under the pavement in Hooper Square, has been
abated. It is not, however, as yet, entirely removed; but the proprietor having other
premises in the neighbourhood, it is most probable that he will altogether abandon
the cellar for the lodgment of his cows, and cease to annoy his neighbours and the
public, with the offensive ammoniacal smell which issues from his premises.
Great improvements have been made in several parts of the district from the
pulling down of houses which were in a dilapidated and dangerous condition, and
thereby causing a better ventilation to some of the closely-confined neighbourhoods,
amongst which may be mentioned, Dunk Street, Booth Street, Plough Court, Halifax