Victorian Nuisance

THE FOLLOWING WILL require an application to the police-courts:

Cesspools, foul.

Dead body, infectious, retained in room where persons live;

Disease, person suffering from infectious, riding in public carriage, or exposing himself, or
being without proper accommodation;

Disorderly houses;

Drains, foul

Factory, unclean or overcrowded;

Furnace in manufactory not consuming its own smoke;

Food untit for consumption, exposing

Gaming houses.

House filthy or injurious to health.

Infected bedding or clothes, sale of

Letting infected house or room; Lotteries.

Manufacturers (making sulphuric acid, steeping skins, etc., )

Manure, non-removal of;

Milk, exposing, unfit for consumption

Obstructions in highways, bridges, or rivers;

Overcrowding of house.

Power magazine, or keeping too large a quantity

Theatres, unlicensed;

Trades, offensive (keeping pigs, soap-house, slaughter-house, or manufactures in trade
causing effluvia, etc.,)

Want of reparation of higheway;

Warehousing inflammable materials;

Water-fouling or polluting.

THE FOLLOWING WILL require a summons in the County Court:

Any of those nuisances next-mentioned where the value or the rent of the premises in dispute,
or in respect of which and over which the easement is claimed, shall not exceed Ł20 per
annum, or where damages in a personal action not exceeding Ł50 are sought to be recovered,
unless by consent of both parties.

THE FOLLWING WILL requre a regular action at law

Buildings from which water falls on to another house

Commons, injury to soil, digging turf, injuring pasture

Drainage, interruption of,

Encroachments on highways, rivers, streets, or squares

Gas company fouling any stream

Lights, obstruction of

Party wall, paring off part of;

Publication of injurious advertisements

Rivers, pulling down banks of;

Right of way, interruption of

Sewage, conducting, into river;

Stream, pollution or diversion of

THE FOLLOWING HAVE NOT been definietely settled either way, but may, under certain
circumstances, be worth the cost and trouble of a trial;

Church bell-ringing

Hospital, infectious

Manufactory, near house, introducing more noisy machinery, or new way of working it;

Music, poweful band near house

Rifle practice;

Rockets or fireworks, letting off, frequently

Sewage contributed by several persons, amount contributed by each not being sufficient to
cause a nuisance

from Charles Dickens (Jr.) Dickens Dictionary of London, 1879