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such an arrangement it would be well nigh impossible to secure uniformity
of administration. Before, therefore, communicating with the Local
Government Board, we have decided to bring the matter again before the
Council, and to ask it to vary its resolution, so as to provide for the licensing
or registration of bakehouses to be in the hands of the Council, and not the
local sanitary authorities. We recommend that the Council's resolution
of the 26th of June last, so far as relates to the licensing of bakehouses,
be rescinded, and that the Council do express the opinion that the licensing
or registration of bakehouses should rest upon the Council, and not the local
sanitary authorities."
To this recommendation objection was raised by the mover
of the amendment on the previous page, who moved "That
the Council re-affirm its decision of June 26th." But after
a discussion this amendment was negatived by a small
majority and the recommendation of the Committee was
approved.
REFUSE MATTER.
The prevention of nuisance in connection with the storage,
collection, and conveyance of offensive substances coming
under the general description "Refuse," was, until recently,
a matter of no little difficulty: the bye-laws which the
County Council and your Vestry made last year, under the
provisions of the Public Health (London; Act, 1891, have
facilitated action in dealing therewith.
HOUSE REFUSE.
The collection of ashes and miscellaneous rubbish from
22,000 inhabited houses, spread over an area of some 2,200
acres, and to the extent of 41,560 loads in 1893, is no light
task. That it is, on the whole, satisfactorily performed, may
be inferred from the relative fewness of complaints, in comparison
with the number received when the work was in the
hands of contractors. Relatively few as the complaints now
are, a not inconsiderable proportion of them results from the