Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1899
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under the ordinary nuisance provisions of the Act (sections 2, 3, 4, and
5) as being a nuisance which, in the opinion of the sanitary authority,
is likely to recur; and that a court might under those sections be
asked to make a prohibition order, which would probably have the
effect of compelling the occupier to make some such arrangement to
obviate the nuisance as has been suggested.
"The Council is of opinion that much good might result if sanitary
authorities were to endeavour to deal with the recurring nuisances
from stable manure in one or other of the ways mentioned, and I
am accordingly directed to ask that your Vestry will be so good as to
give this suggestion their careful consideration."
The Council were informed that the views set out in
their communication were in harmony with those long since
adopted by your Vestry, and that the practice they recommended
has been in existence for a considerable period in
this parish.
In the month of February of the present year, as already
stated, the Council addressed a circular letter to the sanitary
authorities in connexion with the removal of offensive matter
under a proposed amended bye-law, which should prevent
nuisance from peat moss litter, by requiring its removal from
stable premises in properly covered carriages.