The County Council shall make bye-laws

(a) For prescribing the times for the removal or carriage by road or water of any fæcal or offensive or noxious matter or liquid in or through London, and providing that the carriage or vessel used therefor shall be properly constructed and covered so as to prevent the escape of any such matter or liquid, and as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom; and

(b) As to the closing and filling-up of cesspools and privies, and as to the removal and disposal of refuse, and as to the duties of the occupier of any premises in connection with house refuse, so as to facilitate the removal of it by the scavengers of the S. A. (Sect. 16.) NOTE. A constable may arrest without warrant any person whom he finds committing an offence against such bye-laws and who refuses to give his true name and address. (Sect. 16.)

B. Keeping Swine.

A person shall not

(a) Feed or keep any swine in any locality, premises, or place which is unfit for the keeping of swine, or in which the feeding or keeping of swine may create a nuisance or be injurious to health,

or

(b) Permit any swine to stray or go about in any street or public place.

Any person contravening the above shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and to forfeit the swine, and to a further fine not exceeding ten shillings for every

day during which he continues such offence after notice from the S. A. to discontinue the same.

Swine straying or going about in any street or public place may be seized and removed by any constable.

Any premises within forty yards of any street or public place shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be a place unfit for keeping swine. (Sect. 17.)

C. Offensive Trades.

The establishing anew the following businesses, or any of them, is prohibited :

Blood-boiler.

Bone-boiler.

Manure-manufacturer.

Tallow-melter.
Knacker, and

Soap-boiler (except under the following conditions), viz. : If and as long as that business is a business in which tallow or any animal fat or oil other than olein is not used by admixture with alkali for the production of soap, and the sanction of the County Council has been obtained.

Nor shall the following businesses or any of them be established anew without the sanction of the County Council:

Fellmonger.

Tripe-boiler.

Slaughterer of cattle or horses, or any other business which the County Council may declare by order confirmed by the L. G. B. and published in the London Gazette to be an offensive business. (Sect. 19.)

D. Smoke Consumption.

Every furnace employed in the working of engines by steam, and every furnace employed in any public bath or wash-house, or in any mill, factory, printing-house, dyehouse, iron-foundry, glass-house, distillery, brew-house, sugar-refinery, bake-house, gas-works, water-works, or other buildings used for the purpose of trade or manufacture (although a steam-engine be not used or employed therein), shall be constructed so as to consume or burn the smoke arising from such furnace. (Sect. 23.)

NOTE.-The words in italics shall not be held in all cases to mean consume or burn all the smoke, and the Court may remit the fine if of opinion that the defendant has so constructed his furnace as to consume as far as possible all the smoke arising from such furnace. (Sect. 23.)

E. Workshops and Bakehouses.

Where on the certificate of a M. O. H. or sanitary inspector it appears to any S. A. that the limewashing, cleansing, or purifying of any workshop (other than a bakehouse) or of any part thereof, is necessary for the health of the persons employed therein, the S. A. shall serve notice in writing on the owner or occupier of the workshop to limewash, cleanse, or purify the workshop or part, as the case requires, within the time specified in the notice. (Sect. 25.)

Sections 34, 35, and 81 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and sections 15 and 16 of the Factory and Workshop Act Amendment Act, 1883 (which relate to cleanliness, ventilation, and other sanitary conditions),

shall, as respects every bakehouse which is a workshop, be enforced by the S. A. of the district in which the bakehouse is situate, and they shall be the local authority within the meaning of those sections. (Sect. 26.)

If any child, young person, or woman is employed in a workshop and the M. O. H. of the S. A. becomes aware thereof, he shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the factory inspector for the district. (Sect. 27.)

NOTE.-Child and young person are not defined in this Act, but the respective ages are given on p. 104.

F. Dairies.

The L. G. B. may make such general or special orders as they think fit for the following purposes, or any of them, that is to say,

(a) For the registration of dairymen.

(b) For inspection of cattle in dairies, and regulating lighting, ventilation, cleansing, &c., of dairies.

(c) For securing cleanliness of milk vessels.

(d) For prescribing precautions against infection or contamination.

(e) For authorizing the County Council to make bye-laws for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them. (Sect. 28.) NOTE. For what has been done in this direction read Regulations for Cowsheds," pp. 79-89.

G. Removal of Refuse.

It shall be the duty of every S. A. to keep the streets of their district, which are repairable by the inhabitants at large, including the footways, properly swept and cleansed, so far

as is reasonably practicable, and to collect and remove from the said streets, so far as is reasonably practicable, all street refuse.

If they fail in their duty as is required by this section, the S. A. shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

So much of any Act as requires the occupier or owner of any premises in London to cause the footways and watercourses adjoining the premises to be swept and cleansed is hereby repealed. (Sect. 29.)

Every S. A. shall employ a sufficient number of scavengers for the execution of the duties of the S. A. under this Act. (Sect. 31.)

If the S. A. are required by the owner or occupier of any premises to remove any trade refuse, that authority shall do so, and the owner or occupier shall pay to that authority a reasonable sum for such removal, and such sum, in case of dispute, shall be settled by the order of a petty sessional Court. (Sect. 33.)

H. Water-closets, &c.

It shall not be lawful newly to erect any house, or to rebuild any house pulled down to or below the ground floor without a sufficient ashpit, furnished with proper doors and coverings, and one or more proper and sufficient water-closets, according as circumstances may require, furnished with suitable water supply and water supply apparatus, and with suitable trapped soilpan and other suitable works and arrangements, so far as may be necessary to ensure the efficient operation thereof. (Sect. 37.)