Section 51

any premises or part thereof of such a construction or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any pool, gutter, watercourse, cistern, water-closet, latrine, earth-closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, sewer, drain, dung-pit or ash-pit so foul or in such a state or so situate as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any animal, bird or poultry or carcase kept in such place or manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any dust, effluvium, accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any factory, workshop or work-place which —

is not kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any sewer, drain, privy, latrine, earth-closet, urinal or other nuisance;

is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein that are a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health; or

is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein;

any huts or sheds, whether used as dwellings or as stables or for any other purpose, which are by reason of the manner in which the huts or sheds are crowded together or the want of drainage or the impracticability of scavenging or for any other reason a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any hut or shed, whether used as a dwelling or as a stable or for any other purpose, which is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any well, pool or other source, the water from which is used or likely to be used for human consumption and which is so polluted or is likely to become so polluted as to be injurious or dangerous to health;

any tank or receptacle or article capable of containing water or any well, pool, watercourse, ditch or low marshy ground which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood;

any place where there exists, or is likely to exist, any condition giving rise, or capable of giving rise, to the breeding of flies or mosquitoes;

any furnace, chimney, fire-place or other place from which is emitted smoke or other unconsumed combustible matter in such quantity or in such a manner as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;

any brick-field, sandpit or any other kind of excavation which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or used for any purpose likely to be injurious to health; or

any other matter declared by this Act to be a nuisance,shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act.

puts into, or causes to be put, to fall or to flow into, or knowingly permits to be put, to fall or to flow into, or to be carried into any stream, river, drain, channel or watercourse the solid or liquid refuse of any manufactory, manufacturing process or quarry, or any rubbish or cinders or any other waste or any putrid matter, so as to interfere with the due flow of such stream, river, channel or watercourse or to pollute the waters thereof; or

causes to fall or to flow into, or knowingly permits to fall or to flow into, or to be carried into any stream, river, drain, channel or watercourse any solid or liquid sewage matter,shall be guilty of causing a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act.

erects any building or constructs any pond for any purpose whatsoever;

alters the surface of the land by digging thereinto or depositing thereon any substance;

causes or suffers anything to percolate or drain into any part of such area; or

does any act whereby water in such reservoir, lake, stream or river is in any way fouled or its quality altered,shall be guilty of causing a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act.[52