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REFUSE MATTER.
The prevention of nuisance in connection with the storage,
the collection, and the conveyance through streets of offensive
substances coming under the general description, " Refuse,"
which was formerly a matter of no little difficulty has been
facilitated by the County Council's bye-laws made in 1893,
under the provisions of section 16 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891. But in order to prevent nuisance in the
conveyance of offensive matter through the streets, constant
supervision is necessary, and as the police are always on duty,
and have therefore opportunities of observing offences against
the bye-laws, it appeared to the Public Health Committee of
the Council that it would be useful if the police were instructed
to take note of any such offences, and to give notice thereof
to the sanitary authority of the district concerned. The committee
communicated their views to the Commissioner, who
thereupon issued an instruction to the police to note, and
report to the sanitary authorities, any breaches of the byelaws
made under the Act, and this is sometimes done.
Removal of Offensive Matters through Streets.
—This subject was dealt with in the report for 1895, the action
taken by your Vestry, and other sanitary authorities at the
instance of your Vestry, with a view to an alteration in the
bye-laws of the County Council, being set out. The specific
recommendation of the sanitary committee was—
" That a communication be addressed to the County Council, pointing out
the desirability of their Bye-law being revised so as to allow of the
removal of fish offal, &c., at other times than those specified in Byclaw
No. 1,* urovided such offal is removed from the premises in suitable
and closely-covered receptacles which will effectually prevent any
obnoxious effluvia escaping therefrom."
Many of the sanitary authorities addressed the Council
in support of the resolution, but the Council took no action
*The hours for removal prescribed by the Bye-law are, between 4 and 10 a.m.
from March to October, and between 6 a.m. and noon from November to February,
inclusive.