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the approval of the Board, regulate the duties of such medical officers and 

 sanitary inspectors and their relations to each other. . . . The medical officer may, 

 \vlun authorised by the local authority, exercise any of the powers with which 

 the sanitary inspector is invested by this Act. 



SANITARY PROVISIONS. 



General Nuisances. Definitions. (a) Any premises or part thereof of such 

 a construction or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous 

 to health. 



(b) Any street, pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, sink, cistern, watercloset, 

 earth-closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, dung-pit, or ashpit so foul or in such 

 a state or so situated as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health. 



(c) Any well or water supply injurious or dangerous to health. 



(d) Any stable, byre or other building in which any animal or animals are 

 kept in such a manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance or injurious or 

 dangerous to health. 



(e) Any accumulation or deposit, including any deposit of mineral refuse, 

 which is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health, or any deposit of 

 offensive matter, refuse or offal or manure (other than farmyard manure or 

 manure from byres or stables, or spent hops from breweries) within 50 yards 

 of any public road wherever situated, or any offensive matter, refuse or offal 

 or manure other than aforesaid contained in uncovered trucks or waggon* 

 standing or being at any station or siding or elsewhere on a railway or in canal 

 boats so as to be a nuisance, &c. 



(/) Any work, manufactory, trade or business, injurious to the health of 

 the neighbourhood or so conducted as to be injurious or dangerous to health, 

 or any collection of rags or bones injurious, &c. 



(g) Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be injurious or 

 dangerous to the health of the inmates. 



(k) Other definitions of " nuisances " concerning schoolhouses, consumption 

 of smoke from factories, &c., offensive or injurious cemeteries, churchyards, &c. 



Every local authority is from time to time to make inspection of their 

 district, with a view to ascertain what nuisances exist and to have them removed. 



Offensive Trades. Any of the following businesses may not be established 

 without the sanction of the local authority : blood-boiler, bone-boiler, manure 

 manufacturer, soap-boiler, tallow melter, knacker, tanner, tripe-boiler, gut or 

 tripe cleaner, skinner or hide factor, slaughterer of cattle or horses, or any other 

 business which the local authority may declare by order, &c. 



A person carrying on the business of a slaughterer of cattle or horses, or 

 knacker, shall not use any premises as a slaughterhouse or knacker's yard 

 without a licence from the local authority; for each offence he shall be liable 

 to a fine not exceeding 5, and the fact that cattle or horses have been taken 

 into unlicensed premises shall be prima facie evidence that an offence has been 

 committed. 



The local authority of any district other than a burgh may provide, 

 establish, improve or extend and maintain within or without their district, and 

 two or more such authorities may combine, a shambles or slaughterhouse or 

 shambles for the purpose of slaughtering cattle. 



The local authority may make by-laws regulating the construction of 

 pigsties, the places in which they are to be erected, and the mode of cleansing 

 them at proper intervals so as to prevent them from becoming a nuisance or 

 dangerous to public health. 



Scavenging and Cleansing. Notice may be given by any local authority for 

 the periodical removal of manure or other refuse matter from mews, stables, 

 or other premises, except cattle courts, in any special scavenging district. 



UNSOUND FOOD. 



Inspection and Destruction of Unsound Meat. (1) Any medical officer or 

 sanitary inspector, or any veterinary surgeon approved for the purpose of this 

 section by the local authority, may at all reasonable times enter any premises 



