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To complete the subject to date, it may be mentioned
that in February of the present year, the public health committee
of the County Council had the matter under consideration
in connexion with a proposed amendment of the
first bye-law dealing with the conveyance of offensive substances
through streets. An amended bye-law was prepared,
and pursuant to section 114 of the Act, a copy of it was forwarded
that your Vestry might make any representation
thereon to the Council for its consideration. The proposed
amended bye-law reads as follows:—
"Every person who shall remove or carry, or cause to be removed or
carried, by road or water through London any faecal or offensive or
noxious matter or liquid, whether such matter or liquid shall be in
course of removal or carriage from within or without or through
London, shall use or cause to be used therefor a suitable carriage or
vessel properly constructed and furnished with a sufficient covering
so as to prevent the escape of any matter or liquid therefrom, and
so as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom.
"Such person shall not remove or carry, or cause to be removed or
carried, such matter or liquid by road in or through London except
during the following periods, viz.:—
"Between 5 o'clock a.m. and 10 o'clock a.m., or during the period commencing
two hours before sunset and ending one hour after sunset,
in any day during the months of March, April, May, June, July,
August, September and October.
"Between 6 o'clock a.m. and 11 o'clock a.m., or during the period
commencing two hours before sunset and ending one hour after
sunset, in any day during the months of November, December,
January, and February.
"Such person shall not remove or carry, or cause to be removed or
carried, such matter or liquid by water in or through London except
during the period commencing at sunrise and ending at sunset in
any day.
"This bye-law shall not apply to any person removing or carrying
manure consisting only of horse dung, with a sufficient proportion of
straw, and shall not apply to any person removing or carrying in a
suitable vessel as aforesaid, manure consisting of horse dung and
litter other than straw,"