The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

The following notification as to the removal of nui-
sances has just been circulated by the board :
"The General Board of Health, being required to
furnish information for the removal of nuisances and
preventible causes of disease, desires to call attention to
the provisions of the Nuisances Removal Act, 1855
(18th and 19th Viet.' cap. 121), which has superseded
the previous acts on the same subject in England
"1. Any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance
or injurious to health may be ordered by two justices in
petty sessions or by a stipendiary magistrate to be made
safe and habitable, to be paved, cleansed, whitewashed,
disinfected or purified, and sufficient privy wcommoda-
ton, means of drainage and ventilation, to be provided ;
and while any house or building is rendered by a nui-
sance unfit for human habitation, in the opinion of the
justices, the using of it for that purpose may be prohi-
bited.

"2. Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal,
cesspool, drain, or ashpit so foul as to be a nuisance or
injurious to health, may be ordered to be drained,
emptied, cleansed, filled up, amended, or removed, and
a substitute provided.
"3. Any animal so kept as to be a nuisance or injuri-
ous to health may be ordered to be kept in a cleanly and
wholesome state, and, if that be impossible, the animal
may be removed,
" 4. Any accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance
or injurious to health may be ordered to be carried away.
" Notice of a nuisance may be given by any person
aggrieved thereby, or by any of the fol:owing persons :
—The sanitary inspector or any paid officer under the
said local authority, two or more inhabitant household-
ers of the pariah or place to which the notice relates, the
relieving officer of the union or parish, any constable or
any officer of the constabulary or police force of the dis-
trict or place, and, in case the premises be a common
lodging-house, any person appointed for the inspection
of common lodging-houses.
"The notice is to be given to one of the local autho-
rities in the following list, and if more than one of them
have jurisdiction in the place where the nuisance arises,
the authority first mentioned is the one to which notice
must,he addressed
"1. Where the Board of Health Act is in force, the
local board of health.
" 2. In corporate towns (except the City of London,
Oxford, and Cambridge), the town council.
"3. In the City of London, the commissioner; of
sewers ; and in Oxford and Cambridge, the improvement
commissioners.
" 4. Where local improvement acts are in force, the
commissioners and trustees for the execution of such
actg.

"5. The highway board, if there be one.
" 6. The nuisance removal committee, which ought
to be chosen by the vestry, under the act of 1855, where
none of the above-mentioned authorities exist.
" 7. The board of inspectors for lighting and watch-
ing, under 3d and 4th Wm. IV., cs, 90, acting with the
surveyors of highways.
" 8. Where none of the above-mentioned are to be
found, the guardians and overseers of the poor, and the
aurveyors of the highways in and for the place.
"In the metropolis the vestries and district boards t
be elected under the Metropolis Local Management
Act will, on and after the Ist of January, 1856, be the
authority to whom notice and complaints must be ad-
dressed.
" The local authorities are bound to appoint or join
with other loeel authorities in appointing a sanitary in-
spector, and tiey have power of entry into the premises
on which the alleged nuisance is situated for themselves
or theirofficeri, and, on being satisfied that the complaint
is well foundel, are bound to bring it before a justice,
on whose Eumnons the person causing the nuisance, or,
if he cannot 104 found or ascertained, the owner or occu-
pier of the prenises where it exists, will be summoned
before two justices, by whom the complaint will be
inquired into, and an order made. Even if the par-
ticular nuisance complained of have been removed
before ptoceecings are taken, the local anthority, if
they have reasons for believing that it is likely to re-
cur, may sumnon the offender, and the justices may in
such a case mare an order, not for abatement, but for
prohibition, or ;hey may combine an order for abate-
ment with an cider for prohibition, and direct the works
necessary to prtvent a recurrence of the cause of com-
plaint. The orCer of the justices may extend to struc-
tural works, bu; in that oase the act gives an appeal, as
it does against my order of prohibition.
" The duty and cost of removing the nuisance are
thrown in the fi-st place on the person causing it, and, if
he cannot be fond, on the owner or occupier in the
next place, acccrding as the nuisance is one caused by
act or default of one or the other.
"It is obvious that there are nuisances which no at-

tention on an occupier's part can prevent, if an owner
have not provid!d certain appliances ; and, on the other
hand, nuisances for the prevention of which the utmost
care or forethoight of an owner is unavailing if the
occupier be cardess or perverse.
"When neithtr the person calving the nuisance, the
owner, nor the occupier can be got at, the duty of
removing the nusances devolves on the local authorities,
and the cost must be defrayed out of the funds adminis-
tered to them.

" Any person not obeying an order for abatement of
a nuisance is bade to a penalty of not more than 10s.
per day during iis default; and any person knowingly
and willingly acing contrary to the order of prohibition
is liable to a pnalty of not more than 20& per day
during such cortrary action ; and the local authorities
may themselves remove or abate the nuisance, and
charge the cos, to the person on whom the order has
been made.

" Meat, vegetables, flour, &c., expo3ed for sale, or in
their way to o/ in the course of being slaughtered,
dressed, or prepared for sale or use, or landed from any
ship, may be examined by the sanitary inspector, and if
they appear to hurl unfit for human food may be seized
and brought before a justice, who may make order
therein.

" The local authorities may direct complaint to be
made before justices of nuisances arising from noxious
trades or manufactures, and of any house which is so
overcrowded by inhabitants consisting of more than one
family as to be dangerous or prejudicial to their health.
" The local authorities may lay down and keep in re-
pair a sewer or other structure along the course of any
ditch, gutter, drain, or watercourse used or partly used for
the conveyance of selvage, and may assess parties using
the ditch as a means of sewerage to the expense, either
ix one sum or by instalments, or an annual payment.
" All persons allowing gas washing to flow into any
place for water are rendered liable to heavy penalties.
The local authority may direct any proceeding at law or
in equity in cases corning within the powers of this act.
" The general board would strongly urge on the
clergy, employers of labour, and others whose avoca-
tions bring them into contact with the classes of the po-
pulation most exposed to suffer from the nuisances to
which this act refers, the duty of informing themselves
and diffusing information as to the provisions of the act,
and of doing all they can to promote the election of com.
mittens for its execution, especially in rural parishes."

Upon the whole the weather during the past week has
been very favourable for harvest operations, although a
marked change from the magnificent weather of the pre-
ceding seven or eight days has been experienced. The
accounts that reach us—and, in addition, our own ear-
vey this week has embraced a tolerably wide sweep in
this southern district—confirm the opinion expressed in
our last, namely, that the wheats are, as a rule, more
or less affected by blight and mould. At the same
time there would seem to be so large a crop on the
ground that the fallirg-off occasioned by these causes
will probably be compensated by the general breadth
grown, and thus serve to make up a fair average. A
great breadth of corn has been carted during the week,
and a vast deal snore cut. In this respect our farmers
have evinced more than usual alacrity, and as this spirit
has been seconded by extremely favourable weather, im-
mense progress has been made. Beans, peas—especially
the, latter—barley, and oats, all promise well.—Sussex
A civertiser.
MR. OLIVER A BANKRUPT.—On Tuesday a fiat of
bankruptcy was issued against Mr. Oliver. The peti-
tioning creditor, we understand, is Mr. Allison, of Hali-
fax. The law allows seven days to plead against the
cumen.
adjudicationt_Lcri:ebuoto;
pboe
jft.ore cause can be shown, Mr.
roust
Oliver appear in court and sign the necessary dc.