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PART III.

SANITARY PRovisions.

The Prevention and Abatement of Nuisances and for the prevention of the propagation of Mosquitoes.

16. The following shall be deemed to be nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily in the manner provided by this Ordinance :-

(1) any building or part of a building which is so dark, or so ill-ventilated or so damp, or in such a condition of dilapidation, as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inmates;

(2) any building or part of a building which contains rat-holes or rat-runs or other similar holes, or which is infested with rats, or in which the ventilating openings are not protected by gratings in such manner as effectually to exclude rats there- from:

(3) any premises which are so overcrowded or in such a dirty or insanitary condition as to be dangerous or prejudicial to health;

(4) any street or road, or any part thereof, or any water- course, nullah, ditch, gutter, side-channel, drain, ashpit, sewer, latrine, urinal, or cesspool so foul as to be noxious, or noisome, or unhealthy;

(5) any noxious matter, or waste water, flowing or dis- charged from any premises, wherever situated, into any public street, road, or into the gutter or side-channel of any street or road, or into any nullah, or watercourse, or the bed thereof;

(6) any watercourse, well, tank, pool, pond, canal, conduit, or cistern, the water of which, from any cause, is 80 tainted with impurities, or so unwholesome as to be injurious to the health of persons living near, or using such water, or which is likely to promote or aggravate epidemic disease;

(7) any accumulation or deposit of stagnant water, sullage-water, manure, house-refuse, or other matter, where- ever situated, which is unhealthy;

(8) any spring, seepage, stream, drain, water course, or collection of water liable to form a breeding place for mos- quitoes.

(9) any stable, cow-house, pigsty, or other premises for the use of animals, or in which live fish or birds are kept, which is in such a condition as to be injurious to the health of man or of such animals;

(10) any offensive trade which is being carried on without

a licence from the Council:

(11) any cemetery or place of burial, so situated, or so conducted as to be unhealthy.

(12) Any fireplace adapted for the use of charcoal or wood as fuel which is not provided with a hood of sheet metal or other approved material of sufficient size connected with a chimney or smoke flue.

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(13) Any internal surface of the walls of any kitchen not rendered in cement mortar or other non-absorbent material to a height of four feet from the floor level.

(14) Any internal surface of any latrine not rendered in cement mortar or other non-absorbent material to a height of three feet from the floor level or on which the rendering is cracked, broken or is in any way defective.

(15) Any floor or any kitchen, bathroom, latrine or urinal or the ground surface of any building, area, backyard, court- yard, or alley way on which slops may be thrown or on which foul waters flow which is or has been paved or covered over with impervious material and which has been subsequently broken, excavated, or otherwise disturbed.

(16) Any defective eaves, gutter, waste, or rain water pipe which discharges over any street.

(17) Any opening in the wall of any building for the discharge of sullage water not provided with a fixed grating of cast-iron or in which the grating is broken or is in any other way defective.

(18) Any surface trap or gully not provided with a hinged grating or in which the grating is broken or is in any way defective.

(19) Any chimney (not being a chimney of a private dwelling house) or any furnace sending forth smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance; and

(20) Any act omission or thing which is, or may be, dangerous to life or injurious to health or property.

17. No occupier of any house or preinises shall keep or Duty of allow to be kept in any part of such house or premises for occupier

with regard more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper to offensive receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil, filth, or matter. any noxious or offensive matter, so as to be a nuisance or shall suffer such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or shall fail to employ proper means to remove the filth therefrom and to cleanse and purify the same.

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18. The occupier of any land or premises and in the case Lands and of unoccupied land or premises the owner thereof shall keep he kept in such land in such a state as not be a nuisance, or offensive, or such a state an annoyance to anyone living in the neighbourhood, and in be a such a state as not to cause or to be likely to cause danger nuisance. or be prejudicial to health and in particular he shall:-

(a) prevent the accumulation anywhere therein or thereon

of dead vegetable matter, refuse, manure or of any other noxious or unsightly matter.

(b) keep down the growth of useless vegetation therein or thereon,

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19. (1) The occupier of any land or premises, and in Action with the case of unoccupied land or premises, the owner thereof regard to shall keep such land or premises in such a state as not to favour nuisance the existence or propagation of mosquitoes and in particular shall:-

(a) keep the said land or premises clear of empty tins or other disused or unused matter or receptacles capable of re- taining water and prevent the accumulation of such matters or receptacles except in a place suitable for their disposal and in such a manner that they are not liable to retain water.

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