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under the same Act on a varnish maker, requiring him to
discontinue his trade, which he did; also on a butcher, who
boiled bones and offal so as to cause offensive effluvia. In
both of these cases it was not necessary to take any legal
proceedings.
My attention having been called on several occasions to
quantities of fish which were unfit for the food of man; I
directed the inspector to pour carbolic acid over them so as to
prevent their being sold, but did not take proceedings, as the
owners agreed to this course being adopted. I also had 18
wild boars carbolised in a similar manner, as they were unfit
for food, and the owner agreed to my proposal after some
discussion. They were not exposed for sale when I saw them,
but they had been the day before.
We also took proceedings against the London General
Omnibus Company, for not providing proper drainage, and a
sufficient cover to a large dung pit near Colveston Crescent.
Several persons who had suffered from the effluvia attended at
the court, and gave evidence against the company. After a
long hearing, the magistrate ordered the company to provide a
cover sufficiently large to keep the sun from shining and the
rain from falling on the dung when in the pit. In this case the
magistrate required me to prove that the dung was not only a
nuisance to the inhabitants, but that it had produced injury to
the health of some persons, which I succeeded in doing. I have
also obtained 42 orders from the Board prohibiting persons
from keeping pigs in the vicinity of houses. In most cases your
order was sufficient; but in a few instances summonses were
taken out at the Police Courts. The total number of summonses
heard at the Police Courts during the year was 72, the majority
being against persons who had neglected to repair and