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applies to the present case is that certain kinds of refuse must be
removed in "a suitable carriage or vessel." The regulations, which
lay down certain hours as those during which alone such removal
must take place, do not apply to horse manure.
It will therefore be seen that acting for the Borough Council, we
have carried out in this case all that the law either allows or requires.
The only step in the control of such stables which the Council has not
taken, as far as I am aware, is that of a resolution requiring a daily
removal, and I can readily conceive circumstances in which such
action of the Council would be of great service. But I am bound to
point out to the Board that in the case of Messrs. McNamara daily
removal is already contracted for, and, with few exceptions, actually
carried out. The exceptions have received immediate and uncompromising notice from us, and Messrs. McNamara have at once complied.
In the second place, I must remind the Board of the difficulties
of conducting immense stables in Central London without giving
rise to conditions of an unpleasant kind, and which, unless most
rigorously inspected and supervised, may give rise to a nuisance.
The exigencies and requirements of this trade are apparent. Horses
are required at all times of day and night in Central London. It
therefore would appear that they must be stabled in Central Districts.
But the stabling of 750 horses in one place is, in my judgment, most
undesirable. It must always and inevitably be unpleasant, in a
greater or lesser degree, for persons residing or working in the
vicinity. Again, there are the questions of space occupied by fodder,
by litter, and by manure In respect of the latter, I understand that
the reason why X.Y Z. is irregular in removing manure, particularly
in the summer months, is due to the fact that he cannot dispose of
the stuff. I am informed that one railway company has refused to
receive any more manure from X.Y.Z., because they cannot get their
trucks emptied at the destination during haymaking and harvest
time, which leads to a block in the traffic. This is not a concern of
mine, and I only name the matter to the Board, because it illustrates
what has been experienced in other Metropolitan districts in recent
years—namely, that there is a difficulty in disposing of large
quantities of manure from immense establishments at one and the
same time, particularly in the summer.
I therefore have to report to the Board that, judging the matter
from the point of view of existing sanitary law, and viewing all the
circumstances, I am of the opinion