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(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, fish or birds;

(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;

(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 in any way defective;

(15) any floor of 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 but which has been subsequently broken, excavated or otherwise disturbed;

(16) any defective eaves, gutter, waste-pipe 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.

18.- (1) It shall be lawful for any Health Officer, on reasonable presumption of the existence of a nuisance on any premises, by an order in writing to authorise any officer of existence of the Sanitary Department, with an assistant or assistants,

enter such premises at any time between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and to inspect the same.

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(2) The inspecting officer shall produce and show the order to any person being, or claiming to be, the occupier of such premises: Provided that the inspecting officer shall not at any time enter any house or upon any land which may be occupied, should such occupier object to his entry, without previously giving the said occupier two hours notice in writing of his intention to do so.