What constitutes nuisance

The conditions to be deemed nuisances liable to be dealt with in the manner provided in this Part are, (a) any vehicle in such a state or condition as to be injurious or dangerous to health; (b) any dwelling or premises or part thereof which is or are of such construction or in such a state or so situated or so dirty or so verminous or so damp as to be likely to be injurious or dangerous to health or which is or are liable to favour the spread of any 74 (c) any street, road or any part thereof, any stream, pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, sink, water-tank, cistern, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, soak-away pit, septic tank, cesspit, soil-pipe, waste-pipe, drain, sewer, garbage receptacle, dust-bin, dung-pit, refuse-pit, slop-tank, ash-pit, manure-heap, so foul or in such a state or so situated or constructed as to be offensive or to be likely to be injurious or dangerous to health; (d) any growth of weeds, long grass, trees, undergrowth, hedge, bush or vegetation of any kind which is injurious or dangerous to health, and any vegetable that of itself is dangerous to children or others either by its effluvia or through its leaves, seeds, fruits or any part of it being eaten; (e) any well or other source of water supply or any cistern or other receptacle for water, whether public or private, the water from which is used or is likely to be used by human beings for drinking or domestic purposes or in connection with any dairy or milk shop, or in connection with the manufacture or preparation of any article of food intended for human consumption, which is in a condition liable to render any such water injurious or dangerous to health; (f) any noxious matter, or waste water, flowing or discharged from any premises, wherever situated, into any public street, or into the gutter or side channel of any street, or into any gulley, swamp or water-course, irrigation channel or bed thereof not approved for the reception of such discharge; 75 (g) any collections of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other fluid or solid substances which permit or facilitate the breeding or multiplication of animal or vegetable parasites of men or domestic animals, or of insects or of other agents, which are known to carry such parasites or which may otherwise cause or facilitate the infection of men or domestic animals by such parasites; (h) any collections of water in any well, pool, gutter, channel, depression, excavation, barrel, tub, bucket or any other article, and found to contain any of the immature stages of the mosquito; (i) any cesspit, latrine, urinal, dung-pit, or ash- pit found to contain any of the immature stages of the mosquito; (j) any stable, cow-shed or other building or premises used for keeping of animals or birds which is so constructed, situated, used or kept as to be offensive or which is injurious or dangerous to health; (k) any animal so kept as to be offensive or injurious to health; (l) any accumulation or deposit of refuse, offal, manure or other matter whatever which is offensive or which is injurious or dangerous to health; (m) any accumulation of stones, timber or other material of any nature whatever if such is likely to harbour rats or other vermin; 76 (n) any premises in such a state or condition and any building so constructed as to be likely to harbour rats; (o) any dwelling or premises which is so overcrowded as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates or is dilapidated or defective in lighting or ventilation, or is not provided with or is so situated that it be with sanitary accommodation to the satisfaction of a (p) any public or other building which is so situated, constructed, used or kept as to be unsafe or injurious or dangerous to health; (q) any occupied dwelling for which such a proper, sufficient and wholesome water supply is not available within a reasonable distance as in the circumstances it is possible to obtain; (r) any factory or trade premises not kept in a cleanly state and free from offensive smell arising from any drain, privy, water-closet, earth-closet, or urinal, or not ventilated so as to destroy or render harmless and inoffensive as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust or impurities generated, or so overcrowded or so badly lighted or ventilated as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein; (s) any factory or trade premises causing or giving rise to smells or effluvia which are injurious or dangerous to health; 77 (t) any area of land kept or permitted to remain in such a state as to be offensive, or liable to cause any infectious, communicable or preventable disease or injury or danger to (u) any chimneys sending forth smoke in such quantity or in such manner as to be offensive or injurious or dangerous to health; (v) any cemetery, burial place, crematorium or other place of sepulchre so situated or so crowded or otherwise so conducted as to be offensive or injurious or dangerous to health; (w) any gutter, drain, shoot, stack-pipe, down- spout, water-tank or cistern which by reason of its insufficiency or its defective condition causes damp in any dwelling; (x) any deposit of material in or on any building or lane which causes damp in any building so as to be dangerous or injurious to health; (y) any dwelling, public building, trade premises, work-shop or factory not provided with sufficient and sanitary latrines.