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That it was necessary in all cases where new work was being done, that
plans should be deposited with the Port Sanitary Authority, and that they
should possess powers for regulating the construction of all water closets,
earth closets, privies and drainage works in connection therewith.
That any overlapping of two Sanitary Authorities within the same district,
working for the same object and under the same powers, was most undesirable.
That with regard to Section 16, sub-section 1 (a) under which the Port
Sanitary Authority now have Bye-laws regulating the carriage and removal
of offensive matters through the Port, it was desirable that the Bye-laws
should be made to extend to such matters when on shore within the dock
area, and that Bye-laws should be made for preventing nuisances arising from
offensive matters discharged from manufactories, breweries, slaughter-houses,
knackers' yards, butchers' or fishmongers' shops, and dung-hills, in view of
the existence of a number of factories within the dock areas, and owing to
vessels entering the docks with large accumulations of cattle dung on the
decks, where they often remained for days, with liquid filth running down
the sides of the vessel into the dock.
Also, with regard to sub-section (c) of the same section for preventing the
keeping of animals on any premises in such place or manner as to be a
nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health (it being shown that in many
cases animals—for example, swine and cattle were kept on board ships, and
horses in stables within the docks), and with regard to sub-section (d) of the
same section as to the paving of yards and open spaces in connection with
dwelling-houses, it is desired, by reason of the fact that there are many
dwelling-houses within the docks, and some of these have been found from
time to time with ill-paved yards and insanitary surroundings.
Further, that it was very desirable that the existing Bye-laws made by the
London County Council should be applied, if necessary, within the whole of
the district of the Port Sanitary Authority, with this modification : That
such Bye-laws should be enforced by the Corporation as the Port Sanitary
Authority, but that in default, questions of appeal should lie, not to the
County Council, but to the Local Government Board.
It was further sought to amend the order of the Local Government Board
dated 25th March, 1892, which states that " for the purposes of the aforesaid
section and parts of section, any vessel lying within the district of the Port
Sanitary Authority shall be subject to the jurisdiction of such Authority as if
it were a house," by omitting the word " lying."
This is an important amendment, and would make the order apply, of
course, to any vessel whether stationary or moving, and the point was
brought out in a case heard relating to a smoke nuisance, where the vessel
was proceeding down the river at the time.