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such vapour or gas to be effectually conveyed into, or through, a furnace fire, or otherwise
to be prevented from escaping into the external atmosphere.
2. Every Blood Boiler, Bone Boiler, Manure Manufacturer, Soap Boiler, or Tallow
Melter, shall cause every room, chamber, or other place which may be used on or in
connection with the premises where his business is carried on, for the purpose of receiving
or storing any manufactured product, residue, or other matter, from which any offensive
vapour or gas may be evolved, to be furnished with suitable appliances, so constructed
and used as to effectually prevent the escape of such vapour or gas into the external
atmosphere. He shall at all times adopt such precautions and employ such means as
may be necessary to cause all such vapour or gas to be conveyed into or through a furnace
fire, or to be so condensed as to be effectually destroyed.
3. Evory Blood Boiler, Bone Boiler, Manure Manufacturer, Soap Boiler, or Tallow
Melter, shall cause all material, manufactured produce, residue, refuse, or other matter
usod on or in connection with the premises where his business is carried on, from which
any offensive vapour or gas may be evolved, to be received or stored in rooms, chambers,
or other places, constructed so that there maybe no opening from such rooms, chambers,
or other places into the external atmosphere.
4. Every Blood Boiler, Bone Boiler, Manure Manufacturer, Soap Boiler, or Tallow
Melter, shall afford free access to every part of the premises where his business is carried
on, to every Member and Officer of the Board authorized in writing under the hand of
the Clerk of the said Board, at any reasonable time during the hours within which such
business may be in operation.
5. Every person offending against any of the foregoing Bye-laws shall be liable for
any such offence to a penalty of £5, and in the case of a continuing offence, to a penalty
of £1 for every day during which the offence may be continued after the conviction for
the first offence.
6. Every Court of Summary Jurisdiction, as defined in the Slaughter houses, &c.
(Metropolis) Act, 1874, may, by Summary Order, as a penalty for the breach of any of
the foregoing Bye-Laws, suspend or deprive any person altogether of the right of carrying
on the business of a Blood Boiler, Bone Boiler, Manure Manufacturer, Soap Boiler,
or Tallow Melter.
Bye-Law for Regulating the Structure of the Premises.
7. Evory Blood Boiler, Bone Boiler, Manure Manufacturer, Soap Boiler, or Tallow
Melter, shall cause every room, chamber, or other place which may be used on or in
connection with the premises where his business is carried on, for the purpose of receiving
or storing any manufactured product, residue, or other matter from which any offensive
vapour or gas may be evolved, to be constructed so that there may be no opening from
such room, chamber, or place into the external atmosphere.
The Sanitary Committee eventually decided to institute legal proceedings
against Messrs. Cook to compel them to abate the nuisance. Notice
to abate was given on the 10th of August, and the summons was issued
on the 24th for the 31st, under the Nuisance Removal Act, 1855. The
wording of the clause under which we took proceedings is as follows:—
XXVII.—If any candle house, melting house, melting place, or soap house, or any
slaughter house, or any building or place for boiling offal or blood, or for boiling, burning,