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It is clear that where impervious, or air-tight, receptacles are
used for the removal of offensive matters, and provided such
receptacles are moved with their lids on, there need be no
restriction as to the time of day when such offensive matters
should be removed. Under existing conditions, offensive matters
should not be allowed to be removed after 8 a.m. At
present, such offensive matters can be removed up to as late as
12 (noon), during the months of November, December, January
and February, and even up to 10 a.m. during the other months
of the year. In this way, by adopting 8 a.m. as the latest hour,
the great nuisance connected with the removal of fish (and
other) offal in a tank van just at the time when people are
starting for business would be prevented. The present mode of
removing in tank vans that are allowed to parade the streets up
to 10 a.m. and 12 (noon) is, though technically within the four
corners of the existing Bye-laws, undoubtedly a source of great
nuisance, and any alteration in the existing Bye-laws, which
will at any rate limit their use to the early hours of the
morning, would be a distinct sanitary gain.
There are 13 public depots situated in Lambeth Borough, and
these have been under constant supervision during 1903 (daily
during the summer months). In no instance has a nuisance been
discovered calling for special attention by the Sanitary Department.
Of the 3 Railway Sidings, used for manure traffic, complaints
were received in connection with 2, viz., Tulse Hill
and Nine Elms. In connection with the latter, arrangements
were made with the London and South Western Railway
Company to make good and level the roadways, concrete all the
surfaces of the sidings between the railway lines, and provide
additional drainage thereto, to effectually carry off the water.
Special instructions were given by the Railway Companies in
both cases to the effect that, after each loading of the trucks with
manure, etc., the wastage on the roads was to be picked up, and
the ground gone over, and cleared up, and cleansed, daily. The
nuisance connected with this necessary business is, in this way,
reduced to a minimum.