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2.—Carts, trucks, or barges used at any hour for the carrying of offensive
matter, unless so covered as to prevent effluvium.
3.—Foul or dirty urinals.
4.—Pigs kept within 40 yards of a highway or dwelling-house.
5.—Any public building not sufficiently ventilated.
6.—Any dwelling-house not sufficiently supplied with water.*
7.—Any house so dilapidated in the roof, staircase, or floors, as to be
dangerous or injurious to health.
8.—Any house not having a proper dust-bin.†
9.—Any house not having sufficient eaves-gutters, and stack pipes, so
as to keep the house dry.
10.—Any premises whereon the smelting of the precious metals is carried
on, so as to be injurious to the health of the inhabitants. As such
premises are exempted by the 45th section of the Nuisances' Removal
Act from interference by the Local authority, this clause
should be repealed.
11.—Any underground rooms used as living or sleeping rooms, unless
the same be in accordance with the provisions of the Building Act.
12.—Any factory or workshop not having suitable privy accommodation.
13.—Any house not being sufficiently ventilated, or being without proper
drainage, or without a suitable water-closet or privy accommodation
; or any other matter or circumstance rendering any inhabited
house, building, or premises, or part thereof, injurious to the
health of the inmates.
14.—Any work, manufacture, trade or business, so conducted, as to be
offensive or injurious to health.
15.—That in all cases of emergency, such as the stoppage or overflowing
of a drain, the Medical Officer should have power to institute
legal proceedings without delay, and not to wait for the meeting
of the Board to obtain its sanction.
• Since the date of the report of the Royal Sanitary Commissioners, Sir Charles Adderley
introduced a Public Health Bill, containing the following clause,—" That the word
Nuisance shall include 'any inhabitated house or building without an adequate supply
of wholesome water.' "
† Although a house may be provided with a proper dust-bin, yet if the same be not regularly
emptied, it not only becomes a nuisance to the tenants, but the nuisance may injuriously
affect the whole neighbourhood. It should therefore be enacted, that whenever a Local
Board makes arrangement for the dust-men to call periodically—say once a week at every
house in the District—and the occupier refuses to have the dust-bin emptied, the Local
Board should have power to inflict a penalty on the occupier for such refusal.