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Authority, by notice, to require the owner to remove any such urinal.
or otherwise to reconstruct the same, in such a manner, and with such
materials, as may be required to abate the nuisance and remove the
offence against public decency.
In this connection the Council may be reminded of the effort made
in 1888 to improve the condition of the urinals connected with publichouses
in the Borough; efforts which were less effective than might
have been desired owing to the want of such powers as the County
Council now propose to acquire for Sanitary Authorities.
The fourth proposal, relating to "the paving of stables," deals
with a matter of very considerable interest from the public health
point of view. The Committee state that they have had frequent
complaints of nuisances caused from manure at stables, and they
think it would be of assistance in removing causes of complaint, if
the Sanitary Authorities were enabled to require such stables to be
properly paved with some impervious material. They are of opinion
that the matter could best be dealt with if the County Council were
enabled to make by-laws on the subject, which should be enforced by
the Sanitary Authorities. With this view there will probably be
general agreement. But power to make such by-laws might, with
advantage, be extended so as to deal with the ceiling, as well as the
flooring, of stables, and also with the means of access to dwellingrooms
over stables, so as to bring about the removal of insanitary
conditions which lead to pollution of the air, and which max properly
be regarded as dangerous to the health of the persons who are obliged
to live in such rooms.
This subject has, for some time, been engaging my attention,
with a view to ascertain whether, under existing powers, something
may not be done to improve the sanitary condition of stables by
excluding filth-polluted air from dwelling rooms placed over them.
The fifth proposal relates to the "removal of fixed dust receptacles,
after moveable receptacles have been provided." This
proposal arises out of a resolution passed by the conference of
representatives of the Sanitary Authorities at the County Hall, in
1900, expressive of the opinion that "fixed ash-pits should be
abolished and moveable receptacles provided in their place." At
present there is no power to abolish an existing fixed receptacle, if it
be not a nuisance. But all new "ash-pit" are required by t he by-law
of the County Council to be of the moveable sort, and of the
prescribed material and dimensions. As a general rule it is the
dilapidated condition of the original fixed receptacle which leads to
the issue of a notice to provide a moveable ash-pit, the remains of
the fixed receptacle being, as a rule, simultaneously demolished.
The by-law referred to, which came into force in 1893, is not retro-