b'Chapter 16 Environmental Health and Protection Income-generating powers 16.1 There are many environmental protection statutes which give local authorities power to recover expenses or impose a charge in default of someone else (eg an owner or occupier of premises) doing something. This guide is fundamentally concerned with searching out the powers which may assist councils to generate income. As environmental health officers are unlikely to scour the streets looking for overhanging trees to lop, for example, in the hope that they can generate income by recovering expenses in default of the owner/occupier carrying out such works, only some of these powers have been included. Sanitation 16.2 A default power which is included is section 78 of the Public Health Act 1936 (the 1936 Act). This provides that any court, yard or passage which is used in common by the occupants of two or more buildings, but is not a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large and which is not regularly swept and kept clean and free from rubbish or other accumulation to the satisfaction of the local authority, may be swept and cleansed by the authority. The authority can recover any expenses reasonably incurred by it from the occupiers of the buildings which front or abut onto the court or yard, or onto which the passage affords access in such proportions as may be determined by the authority or, in case of dispute, by the magistrates court. Section 83 of the 1936 Act deals with the cleansing of filthy or verminous premises by councils and there are powers enabling the authoritys expenses to be recovered in default of the person upon whom a notice has been served and who does not comply with the requirements of such notice. Section 87 enables district councils, London boroughs, the Common Council of the City of London and county councils to provide sanitary conveniences in proper and convenient situations. The section contains powers enabling such conveniences to be let for such terms, at such rent, and subject to such conditions as they think fit and to charge such fees for the use of any such convenience as they think fit. Lets hope it does not get too expensive to spend a penny! Section 221 of the 1936 Act enables a local authority to provide public baths and wash houses, either open or covered and with or without drying grounds. Section 222 enables a local authority to make such charges for the use of, or for admission to, any baths or wash houses under its management as it thinks fit. This is subject to the publishing of charges in a local newspaper circulated in a district of its intention to consider a proposed table of charges and naming a place where a copy of the proposed table may be inspected at all reasonable hours by any person who 156'