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causing effluvia, on complaint made by the medical officer of
health, or any two legally-qualified medical practitioners, or by
any ten inhabitants of the district. The solicitor advises that,
failing other means of remedying the evil, the court might well
be asked, in the case of livery stables, cab or omnibus proprietors,
and other similar businesses, to act under that Section in the
matter, but that, in his opinion, the case could also be dealt with
under the ordinary nuisance provisions of the Act (Sections 2, 3, 4,
and 5), as being a nuisance which, in the opinion of the sanitary
authority, is likely to recur, and that a Court might under those
sections be asked to make a prohibition order which would
probably have the effect of compelling the occupier to make some
such arrangement to obviate the nuisance as has been suggested.
The communication was referred to the Sanitary
Committee for report, and when the matter was
before that Committee the Medical Officer of Health
informed the Committee that it was his practice,
where complaints were made as to nuisance arising
from the removal of peat moss manure from
premises where many horses were kept, to recommend
the provision of a cart or carts, into
which the manure was to be loaded direct from
the stalls, and removed from the premises without
further disturbance. The Committee reported this
to the Vestry, and the practice received the
approval of the latter.
Carts are being slowly and gradually substituted
for manure receptacles, in accordance with the foregoing
principle. By loading the manure direct from
the stalls into the cart, and taking the cart away
without disturbing the manure, the diffusion of that