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HOUSE REFUSE.
There is now a weekly collection of house refuse by the Vestry,
and the service has been fairly satisfactory; 470 complaints of nonremoval
of dust were received, and a very large proportion of
these were due to the refusal of the servants to allow the refuse to be
removed when the usual weekly call was made. In 1892 780 complaints
were received, and in 1891 3,800, so that the improvement in
the service is manifest.
REMOVAL OF OFFAL.—OFFENSIVE MATTER.
The By-laws made by the London County Council under Section
16 of the Public Health (London) Act prescribing the times for the
removal of any offensive or noxious matter and providing for the
proper construction of the carriage or vessel used therefore came into
force on July 1st. The attention of persons removing offal and other
refuse was at once drawn to these By-laws, and the contractor who
removes all the fish offal from the parish after some correspondence
undertook to comply with them, which he has done, but no attention
was paid to them by the persons removing bones and other refuse from
butchers' shops, though these are frequently most offensive. Consequently
proceedings were instituted against Messrs. Wickens, Pease &
Co. for carrying offensive matter—to wit, bones and fat, from butchers'
shops through the streets during the hours prohibited by the By-laws
of the L.C.C. After these proceedings were instituted the Defendants
complied with the By-laws, and on their Counsel undertaking that they
would continue to observe them pending an application to the L.C.C.,
to define whether such a business was" within the meaning of the
By-laws, the summons was withdrawn.
Sewer Ventilation.
The smells from the man-holes and the surface ventilators of the
sewers in the roadway gave rise to general complaint throughout the
parish, especially during the hot season; and there is no doubt that
the present system of only imperfectly ventilating the sewers causes a
most serious nuisance. The Surveyor to the Vestry has repeatedly
recommended that more efficient ventilation be secured by having the
open grids not more than 60 yards apart, and by the erection of