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neglect of domestic servants, who often refuse to allow the
refuse to be removed when the periodical call of the dustman
is made. Nuisance, in the sanitary sense, need not arise even
from a full dust-bin : when it does occur it is due to improper
use of the receptacle by the deposit therein of animal and
vegetable matters; of which it may be said that the former
has an appreciable value and should be utilized, whilst the
latter admits of being burned, after drying, on the kitchen fire.
A notification to this effect was left at every house in the
parish in 1873, and again in 1883. It might be repeated with
advantage.
The work of dust collection has been systematised by
division of the parish into districts, and provision has been
made for inspection of dust-bins and oversight of the "dusting
gangs," the entire arrangements being under the supervision
of the Surveyor. A call is, or should be, made at every
house once a week, and further improvement is scarcely
possible until the objectionable practice of refuse-harbourage
shall have given place to the more rational system of daily, or,
at any rate, frequent collection from movable receptacles, to
be provided either by the Sanitary Authority or by the householder.
Desirous of dealing with this nuisance in an effective
way, your Vestry, in November, 1887, requested the (late)
Metropolitan Board of Works to include in any suitable Bill
thereafter promoted by them in Parliament, clauses to confer
power enabling Sanitary Authorities to abolish dust-bins,
and to enforce provision, in lieu thereof, of approved moveable
receptacles, in order that a more frequent and accelerated
collection of the refuse might be made. Nothing came
of your Vestry's action, the Board having adopted the
view of their Special Purposes and Sanitary Committee, to
the effect that it was "not desirable to promote the