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"At present your Council do not possess the powers
necessary for the work, and your Committee hold a strong
opinion that the removal of offal by the Council is the only
way to remove the difficulty, and recommend that the
London County Council be strongly recommended to include
in its next General Powers Bill a clause enabling Borough
Councils to carry out the removal of trade refuse within the
districts under their several jurisdictions."
This recommendation was adopted, with the result that the
Public Health Committee of the London County Council was
instructed by the County Council to submit, with a view to the
promotion of legislation in the session of 1908, detailed proposals
dealing, inter alia, with the acquisition of powers to enable sanitary
authorities to require the surrender of offensive trade refuse, and
to arrange for the temporary storage and systematic removal
thereof. The powers proposed are very excellent so far as they
appear to go. The real, practical and only permanent solution is
for the local authority to have full powers to deal with the matter
right throughout.
Proposed New
Powers.
On the 25th September a letter received from the London
County Council was submitted to the Committee, relating to the
following proposals in regard to the promotion of legislation in
the Parliamentary Session of 1908.
1. To enable the Sanitary Authorities in London to
refuse to register, or to remove from the register, cowkeepers,
dairymen or purveyors of milk, whose premises are unsuitable
for the sale of milk thereon.
2. To regulate the sanitary conditions prevailing at
premises on which food is sold or prepared for sale.
3. To enable the Sanitary Authorities to require the
surrender for the purposes of destruction, of unsound food.
4. To enable Sanitary Authorities to require the
surrender of offensive trade refuse, and to arrange for the
temporary storage and systematic removal thereof.