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The subject is not new to your Vestry: it was considered, in
1886, upon a report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee
on "Sanitary, Nuisances-removal and other Cognate Acts."
The Committee, whilst recognising "the necessity for making
proper arrangements for the removal of manure and other
refuse matter," stated that "the Vestry had not depot accommodation,
or staff or plant adequate to cope with so large a
work." For this reason they considered that the Vestry was
not then in a "position to contract generally for the removal of
of manure and other refuse matter." The circumstances are
now different, your Vestry having not only staff and plant, but
also a depot at Purfleet, to which refuse could be conveyed,
from the river and canal side wharves. Should the County
Council, therefore, get the law amended, so as to enable the
Sanitary Authority to charge for the removal of manure, upon
persons desiring to be relieved of the obligation to remove it
periodically, as the regulations require, every facility would be
present enabling your Vestry to give effect to the recommendation
made by the Sanitary Committee in 1892. The proposal
is so reasonable in itself that Parliament would, doubtless,
give legislative effect to it, if a Bill were to be brought in;
and thus it would be put into the power of the Sanitary
Authority to effect, without cost to the general body of ratepayers,
an improvement in sanitary administration which has
been advocated in these reports during the last fifteen years.