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thereof to be given to the owner or owners to remove and abate 

 the same at his own expense, within such time as the said board 

 may deem proper ; a duphcate of the notice so given shall be left 

 with one or more of the tenants or occupants of the premises ; if 

 the owner resides out of the State or cannot be reached with 

 notice speedily, notice left at the house or posted on the premises 

 shall be deemed sufficient, and if the owner or owners thus noti- 

 fied shall not comply with such notification or order of the local 

 board of health within the time specified, the board shall proceed 

 to abate such nuisance and remove the cause of such foul and 

 noxious odors, gases or vapors, water in which mosquito larvae 

 breed, or other thing detrimental to the public health, and such 

 board shall have a right to recover by action of debt the expenses 

 incurred by such board in the abatement or removal, from any 

 person or persons who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance, 

 source of foulness, water in which mosquito larvae breed, or 

 cause of sickness, hazardous to the public health, and from any 

 owner, tenant or occupant of the premises who, after notice as 

 aforesaid, shall have failed to remove such nuisance, source of 

 foulness, water in which mosquito larvae breed, or cause of sick- 

 ness, hazardous to the public health, within the time specified in 

 such notice; and in case such board of health shall fail to recover 

 by such action an amount sufficient to defray such expenses, or 

 if it shall be deemed inexpedient to bring such suit, they may 

 present a bill, certified by such board, or a majority thereof, to 

 the local municipal authorities, and such bill shall be audited and 

 paid by the city, borough, town, township or other local municipal 

 g-overnment in and for which such board is organized, in the 

 same manner as the bills for the ordinary current expenses for 

 such municipality are paid. 



2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Approved March 28, 1904. 



It will be noted that the mere fact that mosquito larvae of any 

 kind breed in water of any kind is sufficient to give the boards 

 jurisdiction, and that nothing else need be proved in a proceeding 

 against an owner of land that holds such pools, in case he fails 

 to comply with an order to abate. It is not even necessary for 

 a local "board to pass an ordinance declaring such breeding places 

 to be a nuisance ; but some boards have preferred to do this, and 

 have made their proceedings and penalties for similar nuisances 

 applicable to mosquito pools as well. 



At any rate, as the law stands at present writing, every Board 

 of Health in the State has an absolute power to compel owners 



