844 ARTICLE 4.

Navigable Waters. Obstruction of navigable waters of Patapsco by deposits of
mud and sediments.

Garrittee v. M & C. C. of Baltimore, 53 Md. 422.
Noxious Gases from Fertilizer Factories, See.

Fertilizer Co. v. Spangler. 86 Md. 562.

Obstructions in Public Streets, constitute a public nuisance and the remedy is by
indictment.

Fort v. Graves, 29 Md. 188. Houck v. Wachter. 34 Md. 265.
Offensive Trades. Rules lor determining when they constitute a nuisance.

Horner v. State. 40 Mel. 277.

As to whether noises, smell and the like physical discomforts arising from the
prosecution of a commendable and necessary trade or business will be treated as
constituting a nuisance, see.

Gibbons v. Becker, Daily Record. February 21, 1893 Cf.. Berge v. Baltimore
Cemetery Co., Daily Record. October 26, 1889.
Pest Houses. Leprosy, when a nuisance, see,

Baltimore City v. Fairfield Imp Co., 87 Md 352.
Privies. When a nuisance, see,

Boehm v. Baltimore. 61 Md. 259.

Authority of State Board of Health to compel installation of sewers in various
counties of State and in Baltimore City.

Welch et al. v. Coglan et al, Daily Record. April 21, 1915.

Shade Trees. Not removable by a municipal corporation unless they constitute
a nuisance.

Frostburg v. Wineland. 98 Md. 239

Slaughter Houses. Blood, offal and refuse from slaughter houses let into a mill
race rendering water offensive and impure constitute a public nuisance.

Woodyear v. Henry Schaefer, 57 Mil. 1.

Smoke, Noxious Vapor, etc. Smoke, noxious vapor, noise and vibration produc-
tive of active physical discomfort and rendering one's habitation unfit and unsafe
is a nuisance, though the business may be lawful.

Dittman v. Repp. 50 Mel. 516.

Smoke, Noise, Vibration. Smoke, steam and cinders from a chimney; when a
nuisance, see,

Lurssen v. Lloyd. 76 Md. 360. Euler v. Sullivan. 75 Md. 616.

Steam Boiler. Not a nuisance per se. An ordinance committing to an official the
power to declare a steam boiler a nuisance and to demand its removal without a
provision to determine whether it is a nuisance in fact, is void.

Baltimore v. Radecke, 49 Md. 217.

Toll Gate. A toll gate upon a highway unauthorized is a public nuisance.
Schall v. Nusbaum, 56 Md. 512.

(10) HOSPITALS.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 31. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 409.
To erect or establish houses of correction, almshouses, reformatories,
hospitals or pest-houses, within or without the city, if necessary, and make
all regulations for the government of the same.

Baltimore City v. Fairfield Imp. Co., 87 Md. 352.

(11) INSPECTIONS.

P L L (1860), Art. 4, secs. 28. 942, 943. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, secs. 425-427.

1S94, ch. 53. 1896, ch. 273.

To establish and regulate inspections within the city. To make the
standard of weights and measures the same in the City of Baltimore as
in the rest of the State, and enforce the same by inspection. To regulate
and fix the assizing of bread. To provide by ordinance for the proper
inspection of milk or any and all other food products offered for sale in