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venting, as far as practicable, nuisance from this cause, a
printed notice is periodically issued by your Vestry to every
householder, calling attention to the danger to public health
arising from the deposit of vegetable and other objectionable
refuse in the dust-bin, and requesting that directions may be
given for all such refuse to be burned. At present, a portion
of the refuse, from the northern part of the parish, is conveyed
out of London by the Grand Junction Canal, the refuse
from the southern part of the parish being taken, by the contractor,
down the Thames; but not to your Vestry's depot at
Purfleet, where the land, which lies below high-water mark,
is let to the contractor for the deposit of other matter of a
presumably less objectionable sort. The time must ultimately
come when the refuse will have to be cremated in or near the
parish: the otherwise waste-heat thus produced could be employed
for the production of "current" for the illumination of
the streets by electricity—a practice which has already been
adopted with success in other districts. Your Vestry now
possess a site at Wood-lane, Hammersmith, where a
"destructor" and an electric-light installation might be advantageously
located.
Conveyance of Offensive Matter Through
Streets.—This subject received considerable attention during
1899, as the outcome of a communication received from the
medical officer of health to the County Council, enquiring—
Whether the removal of fish offal causes so much nuisance as
to necessitate it being dealt with by requiring a proper metal
receptacle to be provided, with a covering for same, so that
each receptacle, with its contents, can be taken away from the
premises without the cover being removed, this arrangement
involving an empty receptacle being left at the premises each
time the collection is made? The Council's solicitor advised
that this plan of removal could not be enforced without