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L.C.C. Bye-Laws made under Sections
16 and 39 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
(Special Report presented to the Council on January 7th, 1904.)
I have carefully considered the existing Bye-laws of the London
County Council, made under Sections 16 and 39 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and, in connection therewith,
suggest, as the result of practical experience in the daily carrying
out of such Bye-laws, the following amendments:—
(a) Bye-laws under Section 16 (2).
The hours stated in Bye-law 1 might be altered so as to read as
follows:—
"Between 12 (midnight) and 8 a.m. all the year round,
except that this Bye-law shall not apply to any person
removing, or carrying, or causing to be removed or carried,
such fæcal, or offensive, or noxious matter, or liquid,
deposited in an impervious air-tight receptacle, or receptacles,
and removed or carried in the same inpervious air-tight
receptacle, or receptacles, placed in a suitably closed van or
vans—such van or vans, and such receptacle or receptacles,
being cleansed periodically, as required."
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, and in suitably closed
vans, there need be no restriction as to the time of day when such
offensive matters are to be removed. 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 (including
Summer). Under existing conditions, I am of opinion that
offensive matters should not be allowed to be removed after 8 a.m.
Indeed, 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 will 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