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By the 33rd Section the absence of the prescribed fittings after
the prescribed time shall be deemed a nuisance rendering the
house unfit for human habitation. There are many other
important sections which I need not mention here.
In addition to the summonses under the Sanitary Act already
mentioned, I obtained orders against many owners of property
for neglecting to remove nuisances in accordance with notices
served under the Nuisances Removal Act, and for offences
against the Metropolis Local Management Act. Penalties were
inflicted on the owner of a Dust-yard for allowing accumulations
of vegetable and other refuse to remain on his premises; on
several persons for keeping swine, so as to be a nuisance; on a
person for retaining large quantities of soot in an uncovered
yard; on the owner of a house for not re-constructing the drains
in accordance with the order of the Board; on another person
for having let his house without having first provided a proper
water closet and water supply thereto; and also on an owner of
houses for not repairing them in accordance with the Magistrates'
order. One person who refused to pay the penalty ordered by
the Magistrate, was committed to prison for fourteen days.
I have attended during the year fifty meetings of the Sanitary
Committee, or of Sub-Committees thereof, and many meetings
of other Committees. The meetings and inspections of the
Cow-house Committee generally occupied a whole day at a time,
as many as from forty to fifty places being sometimes inspected
in one day. Many were visited twice or three times in consequence
of the works ordered to be done not having been carried
out to the satisfaction of the Committee and the Sanitary Officers.
The Cow-house Committee successfully opposed the granting of
Licenses to three slaughter-houses and four cow-sheds, because
the premises were not put into such order as to be satisfactory.