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The committee in their report on the subject stated that
the Local Government Board "do not see their way to allow
removal either during the night or during hours of the day,
when the streets are crowded, especially during the heat of
summer." They add that "the extension of hours . . . will
be of substantial benefit, although it will not remove all the
difficulties" to which their attention had been called, and
which "could only be overcome by allowing removal during
the night," a course to which the Board "object, as it is then
impossible to see that the refuse is not slopped or spilled, and
that the vehicles conveying it are properly covered." It may
be gathered from the committee's report, that the consent of
the Local Government Board to the proposed amended byelaw
will not be withheld; but it must be said that the extended
hours to be allowed for the conveyance through streets of
offensive matter, will not get over the difficulty in regard to
West Ham, where, as already mentioned, a bye-law is in
operation forbidding the conveyance of offensive matter through
streets in the day time. It is to be regretted that the Council
have not seen their way to adopt your Vestry's views with
regard to the removal of fish offal, and other like refuse, in
the shop receptacles, rather than in tank-vans.