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the Committee directed that notices for daily removal should be
served throughout the district under section 36 (2) of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
This section ought to be enforced throughout the metropolis by
the local authorities, so that the inhabitants of a parish in which a
depot is situated may not be liable to be inconvenienced.
In order to diminish the quantity of condemned fish from the
Shadwell Market coming into the district and being shot in the Blomfield
Street depot, where it is loaded into tanks and a nuisance created, the
Committee directed that the Shadwell Market authorities be written
to, suggesting that the same practice be adopted at Shadwell as at
Billingsgate, viz., that all condemned fish be put into a barge, which
is kept alongside for the purpose and sent away direct.
The Clerk communicated with the Fishmongers' Company, and it
was arranged that the "offal" should in future be taken to Billingsgate
and barged away.
On account of the continued nuisance to the neighbourhood surrounding
the Belvedere Fish Guano Depot in Bloomfield Street,
through the shooting of the fish offal and allowing the same to remain
at this dep6t for days instead of being instantly removed, a summons
was applied for, and the Company agreed to a forthwith "prohibitory
order" being made. Latter on summonses had to be applied for
against the Company for infringing the magistrate's order. The plea
of the Company was disorganisation of the river traffic on account of
fog. Nominal penalties were inflicted. A nuisance in the warm
weather must happen when the receptacles used for storing on the
premises are emptied at collection times in the streets into the vans or
tanks. The Committee thought that all nuisance would be abated if,
instead of emptying the receptacles at the street doors they were
removed direct to the factory or depot with their lids properly fixed,