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are notified to the Sanitary Authority by their Medical
Officer of Health, or by any two legally qualified medical
practitioners, or by any ten inhabitants of the district, to be
a nuisance, the Sanitary Authority shall take legal
proceedings before the petty sessional court. The word
"shall" which is employed here renders it compulsory on
the Local Authority to take legal proceedings on the receipt
of any such complaint.
Section 22 expressly makes the collection, storage,
treatment and disposal of street and house refuse an
offensive trade within the meaning of the Act, and one in
respect of which, on complaint made to them the County
Council shall act towards the Sanitary Authority, in the
same manner as the Sanitary Authority themselves are
required to act in respect of other trade nuisances.
SMOKE CONSUMPTION.
The main provisions under this head are:—that
(Section 28 and 24) excepting those in dwelling-houses, all
furnaces shall, as far as possible, consume their own smoke;
that in many cases, as I have already shewn, the nonconsumption
of smoke may be dealt with summarily as a
nuisance ; and that the duty of enforcing the provisions of
the Act with respect to smoke abatement is now thrown
wholly on the Sanitary Authority.
WORKSHOPS AND BAKEHOUSES.
There is nothing noteworthy in the Sections relating
to these matters.