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nuisance. The report of these officers having been forwarded
by the Council to your Vestry, and referred to the Wharves
and Plant Committee, I reported thereon, at the request of
the Committee, dealing with the subject, of course, from the
sanitary point of view. I stated that I agreed with the conclusion
arrived at by the Medical Officer and the Engineer ; and
assuming the conclusion to be correct, I further stated that
"the process (of cremation) would appear to offer, in existing
circumstances, the most effectual and economical, and the
only sanitary method of dealing with the refuse of the parish,
inasmuch as, at the minimum of cost, the offensive constituents
of the domestic receptacle called a dust-bin, can be
reduced in bulk by some three-fourths, the residuum, moreover,
being not only innocuous, but, where the demand for such
material prevails, also of some value." I concluded by commending
the report to the favourable consideration of the
Committee, "believing that the erection and utilisation of dust
destructors in this parish would be a distinct advantage from
the public health point of view."
TRADE REFUSE.
In a Special Report, dated March 13th, 1885, on " Sanitary,
Nuisances Removal, and other cognate Acts," made in
connection with an enquiry referred to the Law and Parliamentary
Committee (April 9th, 1884), I stated that your
Vestry "have power, and indeed are required, when called
upon, to remove the refuse of any trade, &c., upon the application,
and at the cost, of the owner or occupier of any
house, &c. ; "and, I added, that "the section (of the Metropolis
Local Management Act referred to) would apply in the
case of trades which lead to the production of 'refuse' of an
offensive character." This subject was fully dealt with in the
said Report, and also in my Annual Report for 1887 (pages
176-189), of which a copy was forwarded to every member of