Power of Commissioner to require owner or occupier of

factory, etc., to discontinue the use of such factory.- Whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner that any factory, workshop or workplace or any building or any place in which steam, water or other mechanical or electric power is employed, is or is likely to become, by reason of the employment of such power or by noise or by any gas, vapour, smoke, vibration, dust or other impurity generated in the course of the work carried on in such place or by any other cause, a nuisance or danger to the life, health or property of persons in the neighbourhood, he may by written notice require the owner or occupier of such factory, workshop, work-place, building or place to discontinue the use of such factory or place for any of the purposes that may be specified in such notice.