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existing Bye-laws, which will at any rate limit the use of such tank
vans to the early hours of the morning, will be a distinct sanitary
gain.
Manure placed direct into a wheeled wagon or van, or other
receptacle and removed therein without being in any way
disturbed, causes little, if any, nuisance; and an addition to the
Bye-laws might, with advantage be made so as to allow of manure
being deposited, and afterwards removed or carried, in such a
manner.
Removal of House Re/use.
In connection with the removal of house refuse, Bye-law 8,
which gives power to a Sanitary Authority to arrange for the daily
removal of such house refuse in their districts, if they decide so to
do, might be made compulsory in the case of blocks of workingclass
dwellings, in connection with which it is clear that the house
refuse should not be allowed to accumulate for seven days in each
small tenement, as is the practice at present, the overflowing dustbins
being often kept in living rooms.
With regard to the removal of house refuse throughout a
sanitary district, Bye-law 9 might be altered so as to read "twice
in every week" instead of "once in even week." House refuse
contains quantities of decaying (animal and vegetable) matters,
which give rise, more or less, to a nuisance, and it is found, in
practice, that the removal of such refuse throughout a district
once a week is not sufficient for the abating of such a nuisance.
Further, a new Bye-law is, in my opinion, needed, preventing
the obstruction of dustmen by occupiers. To meet this case, a
new Bye-law to the following effect might be adopted:—
"The occupier of any premises shall give free access to
the Sanitary Authority, or to other person, or persons, acting
on behalf of such Sanitary Authority, for the purpose of the
removal of house refuse."
(b) Bye-laws under Section 39 (1).
In connection with Bye-law 1, the words "equally efficient"
require to be inserted between the words "other" and "materials,"
in line 15, in connection with the solid wall or partition of brick
that is required where a water-closet abuts on a room intended for
hnman habitation, or used for the preparation, manufacture or
storage of food for man. As the Bye-law is at present, lath and
plaster partitions are sometimes put up, and such partitions do not
effect the object for which the Bye-law was evidently intended,