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[Here, it may foe mentioned that, in several instances, your
Vestry have successfully prosecuted persons for offences under this
bye-law, because the offensive refuse had been removed in improper
vehicles, thus creating nuisance. It should also be mentioned
that some of the persons engaged in the removal of these mattters,
having applied for permission to remove ' offal' on Saturday evening,
to prevent the nuisance arising from long detention on the premises,
the .Sanitary Committee decided not to take proceedings for a limited
infraction of the time-condition of the bye-law, and, so far as I know,
no cause for complaint has arisen in these cases. Some of the removalcontractors,
moreover, having laid before me their difficulties, I
advised them to communicate with the County Council, which they
did ; and having alleged that the refuse they removed was not
'offensive,' they were informed that the bye-law referred to the
removal of ' offensive ' refuse only; it being left to their discretion to
act as they might be advised or on their own responsibility. My view
is that the ' matter' in question is always ' offensive,' and should be
dealt with with all necessary precautions to prevent nuisance,
whether in storage, or collection, or removal, or disposal. At the
same time, I am of opinion that if it is removed daily, after business
hours, in properly constructed and covered receptacles, being the same
in which the substances are stored as they accumulate during the day,
no nuisance would arise in the conveyance of the receptacles through
the streets, and that the tradesmen concerned, and their contractors
for removal, would be delivered from their present very real difficulties.]
"The time allowed by the bye-law for the removal of such
substances through the streets during the months from March to
October, viz., from 4 a.m. to 10 am., is totally inadequate, being in
practice limited to three or four hours before 10 o'clock, as the shops
are not open at 4 o'clock or anything like so early ; the contractor,
moreover, having to call at numerous places to make his collection, and
then to convey the refuse for a long distance to the place at which it
is to be utilised before 10 o'clock in the forenoon. At present tank-vans
arc generally employed, and their use is almost necessarily attended with
nuisance when the cover is removed for tipping. With these tank
vehicles I should recommend removal in the evening. The covered
receptacles, such as are used for the storage and the removal of the
refuse matter from slaughter-houses, could be removed at any hour
without nuisance, provided they are in good condition, but they also
should be removed in the evening. Under the existing bye-law, the
offensive contents of the filthy shop receptacle are tipped into the more
or less offensive van which, during the months from November to