Smoke Abatement; a Manual for the Use of Manufacturers, Inspectors, Medical Officers of Health, Engineers, and Others |
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Page 38 - Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill factory dyehouse brewery bakehouse or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private d'welling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
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Page 38 - Secondly, that where a person is summoned before any court in respect of a nuisance arising from a fireplace or furnace which does not consume the smoke arising from the combustible used in such fireplace or furnace, the...
Page 37 - ... puddling and rolling of iron and other metals, nor to the conversion of pig iron into wrought iron, so as to obstruct or interfere with any of such processes respectively.
Page 85 - Every such board shall receive and examine into all complaints made by any inhabitant concerning nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health within the municipality...
Page 47 - Act, shall be liable for the First Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings, and for every subsequent Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.
Page 45 - Act,* every person so offending shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the offence...
Page 19 - Commons was appointed in 1819, "to inquire how far it might be practicable to compel persons using steam engines and furnaces in their different works, to erect them in a manner less prejudicial to public health and comfort, and to report their observations thereupon to the House.
Page 98 - The emission, except by locomotive engines or by brick kilns, into the open air of dark smoke or dense grey smoke for more than five minutes continuously, or the emission, except as aforesaid, of such smoke during ninety minutes of any continuous period of twelve hours within a quarter of a mile of a dwelling...
Page 85 - Every such local board shall make and publish from time to time all such orders and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the sanitary code, as it may deem necessary and proper for the preservation of life and health and the execution and enforcement of this chapter in the municipality.