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legislative powers are necessary. The Committee are quite satisfied that
serious nuisance does arise from this source, but before recommending the
Board to take any steps for obtaining an amendment of the law, the y are
desirous of ascertaining the views of the several Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis on the subject, especially as the Committee
understand that in some districts the Local Authority has succeeded in
effecting the removal of offensive substances without nuisance.
"The Committee have, therefore, Instructed me to request your Board
to he good enough to furnish the following information : —
"1. Whether nuisance is experienced in your district in the collection
of offensive material, and in its conveyance through the streets, and, if so,
the nature and extent of the nuisance.
"2. If your Board have taken any steps for preventing nuisance from
this source, and, if so, what steps, and with what results.
"3. Under what statutory provisions you have acted, and if you
consider such provision- adequate to the purpose of preventing nuisance.
"The Committee will be glad to receive any information which your
Board may be good enough to afford them during the present month, as
they propose to report on the subject early in December.
Recognizing the importance of the communication, I made a
Special Report on the subject (17th November, 1887) dealing with it
as follows: —
"Nuisance is experienced in this Parish in 'the collection of
offensive material, and in its conveyance through the streets ;' and in its
prior to removal.
"Fish and Poultry Offal. — In regard to this refuse, perhaps the most
offensive of all, the arrangements appear to be wholly unsatisfactory,
arising in large measure from the fact that there is no Systematic
collection of it. The fishmongers experience much trouble in getting rid
of it, and cannot place dependence on the collectors, who, nevertheless,
are paid for their services. The offal appears to be collected in part for
boiling-down for pigs' food ; it is also removed in manure carts, then,
presumably, finding its way on to the land. As a ride it is collected
daily, and mostly in the latter part of the day. It is rarely stored in
impermeable covered vessels, and as it rapidly decomposes, effluvium
results. This is most complained of at hay-making anil harvest time,
when the manure collectors are less regular in their visits. The storage
vessels are not removed, simply emptied, and the receiving vessels, mostly
of wood, and the carts themselves, are offensive at the commencement of
the day's work—the nuisance naturally being greatest in hot weather,
both at the time of emptying the trade receptacles, and during past
the earls through the streets, the tubs being usually covered with
only.
"Blood. —With blood may be grouped the other refuse matters from
slaughter-houses, and with regard to these matters I am able to report
comparative absence of cause for complaint—as a result of bye-law
conceived and fairly carried out under substantial penalty for default.
The various matters are stored in impermeable covered receptacles, in
which, as a rule, they are, as they ought to be, removed from the
premises, double sets of receptacles being provided.
" Bones may be mentioned here, though not named in the Board's
letter, The nuisance from these is great, especially in hot weather, and
it may exist on every batcher's premises. Bones, from which the flesh