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Public Bill to deal with it alone, instructed the officers to
report as to other amendments of the Public Health Act
which could be dealt with in the same Bill. Under these
circumstances, the Council adopted the recommendation of
the parliamentary committee to discharge the reference to
them, "to obtain an amendment of the law to enable the
London sanitary authorities to charge for the removal of
manure."
Nuisance from Peat Moss Litter: Action of
the County Council.—The Council having had their
attention drawn to this subject, a circular letter was addressed,
in July, 1898, to the sanitary authorities, as follows:—
"In investigating complaints of nuisance alleged to arise from stable manure at
various premises in London, the attention of the Council has been directed
to the use of peat litter, which appears to be increasingly creating nuisance.
The Council will be glad to hear whether your Vestry find that nuisance
from peat litter is so great as to render it desirable that the Council
should include such litter within the provisions of its bye-laws under
section 16 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, prescribing the
hours of removal of offensive matters throughout London, and the construction
of the carriage conveying such matter."
The bye-law referred to is to the following effect:—
"Every person who shall remove or carry by road or water in or through
London any fæcal, or offensive, or obnoxious matter or liquid .
shall not . . . (do so) except between the hours of 4 o'clock and 10
o'clock in the forenoon during the months (March to October inclusive),
and except between the hours of 6 o'clock in the forenoon and 12 o'clock
at noon during the months (November to February inclusive). Such
person shall use a suitable carriage or vessel properly constructed and
furnished with a sufficient covering so as to prevent the escape of any
such matter or liquid therefrom, and so as to prevent any nuisance
arising therefrom.
"Provided that this bye-law shall not apply to the carriage of horse
dung manure."