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Michael Angele Taylor's Act, and the Metropolis Management Acts, so far as they deal
with sanitary measures are also repealed or re-enacted with certain amendments.
The Vestry, in common with other Sanitary Authorities, are required to make byelaws
for the following purposes:—
(a). The prevention of street nuisances arising from snow, ice, salt, dust, &c.
(b). The prevention of nuisances occasioned by the running of offensive matter
out of manufactories, &c. into uncovered places.
(e). The prevention of the keeping of animals in unfit places.
(d). The paving of yards and open spaces in connection with dwelling houses.
(e). Securing the cleanliness of cisterns, water-tanks, &c.
(f). The removal to and the keeping in any hospital of persons suffering from
infectious disease brought within their district by any vessel.
(g). Keeping water-closets supplied with sufficient water for flushing purposes
and
(h). The regulation of houses let in lodgings, their registration, inspection and
cleanliness.
The London County Council are also required to make bye-laws:—
(i). For prescribing the times, &c., for the removal of any fœcal or offensive
matter through London.
(j). For the closing and filling-up of cesspools, and the removal and disposal
of refuse, &c.
(k). As to water-closets and their accessories.
All these bye-laws require the sanction of the Local Government Board, and must
be submitted to the Board within six months of the commencement of the Act. The
Vestry are required to enforce the bye-laws of the London County Council as well as
their own.
One of the most important novelties of the Act is the provision that the London
County Council is empowered, in some cases with, in others without the sanction of the
Local Government Board, to execute any work which the Vestry may neglect, and
appeals to the Council are allowed to persons aggrieved by the Vestry's decision on
certain matters.
The first part of the Act deals with nuisances : first with nuisances generally, and
secondly with some particular nuisances. Under the same head offensive trades are
dealt with, and the Acts relating to the consumption of Smoke are discussed. These
are repeated with very slight alteration, the principal amendment being the shifting of
the responsibility for the smoke abatement provisions from the shoulders of the police