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February, may traverse the streets until noon. A subsidiary advantage
of the plan I have so long advocated, would be that the storage (and
removal) vessels could be effectually cleansed daily before being
returned to the shop keeper. Under such circumstances, and if removal
were effected in the evening, it would be difficult, I think, to get a
magistrate to convict for such removal under the present bye-law, for
no ' nuisance ' could arise therefrom."
In concluding my report on this subject I recommended
that "the attention of the Sanitary Authorities generally
should be called to it, in the belief that many, if not all of
them, would be willing to support your Vestry's action, in
applying to the Council to make a more reasonable bye-law :"
this course was adopted, and a considerable number of the
Sanitary Authorities not only expressed agreement with the
views set out in the report, but also communicated with the
Council in support of the action taken by your Vestry. But
the Council, so far as I am aware, took no action in the matter.
HOUSE REFUSE.
The collection of ashes and miscellaneous rubbish from
22,000 inhabited houses, in a district having an area of 2,200
acres,and to the extent of 39,491 loads in 1895, is no light task.
The work 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 arrangements being
under the supervision of the Surveyor. A call is, or should be,
made at every house once a week, and, subject to a weekly removal
only,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 moveable receptacles.
An increasing difficulty is experienced in finding accessible
" shoots " for house refuse, to the deposit of which within their
boundaries the Sanitary Authorities of other districts naturally