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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 done.
Removal ok 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 Byelaw
No. 1,* provided 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
in the matter. From time to time people concerned with the
removal of refuse have appealed to the Council for permission
to remove such refuse at other than the prescribed hours, upon
the ground that it was not " offensive," and have received
answer that the bye-law applies to " offensive " matter only. I
am not prepared to admit that any offal of the trade of fishmonger,
poulterer, game dealer, etc., is inoffensive, but I do
contend that all such offal can be removed inoffensively. My
views on this subject were fully set out in a communication
addressed by your Vestry to the late Metropolitan Board of
Works in 1887, and are contained in the annual report for
1887 (page 177).
*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.