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excuse for permitting or allowing such refuse to remain for
a longer period than twenty-four hours [vide Section 2,
21, Public Health (London) Act, and Bye-laws of L.C.C.,
No. 8). Where, therefore, ordinary precautions are taken
to minimise as far as possible any nuisance arising from
such a business, and where the Sanitary Inspector or
Medical Officer on frequent inspection, report no nuisance
due to negligence, neglect, or want of proper and suitable
business appliances and management, it would, I think, be
unwise for a Sanitary Authority to take action. Unavoidable
blocks on the Companies' outlying lines sometimes of
necessity occur, from breakdowns, or other unavoidable
circumstances.
Applying the general principles mentioned above to the
particular cases at Heme Hill and Nine Elms, the Medical
Officer reported to the Vestry that the business of
removing manure from the Parish of Lambeth into the
country is carried out in a satisfactory manner, and every
reasonable precaution seems to have been taken by the
Railway Companies to obviate, as far as possible, any
nuisance arising therefrom in the course of what is an
essential business. The Companies are stated to have
carried on their businesses for many years past, but have
received from time to time comparatively few complaints
from neighbouring inhabitants. During the past year, however,
in the case of the Nine Elms Depot, the locale of the
business has been moved by the Company to another part
of their sidings, owing to the fact that the ground where
formerly the manure was loaded and unloaded, has been
required and used for building an extension of storage sheds,
with the result that the present position of the manure
business is now at the N.E. portion of the sidings, and
alongside the pottery works of Messrs. Richardson & Co.,
but separated therefrom by a wall 25 ft. high in two-thirds