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After full consideration of the subject, the Sanitary Committee
made a recommendation, which was adopted by your
Vestry on the 6th November, to the following effect:—
"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 Bye-law No. 1,* provided such offal is removed from the premises
in suitable and closely-covered receptacles, which will effectually
prevent any noxious effluvia escaping therefrom."
I had previously submitted a report on the subject to your
Vestry,† setting out the action taken, over a long period of
time, with a view to securing an amendment of the law so as
to allow of offal being removed in the evening after business
hours, under conditions not only as to collection and transit,
but of previous storage also, which would effectually prevent
nuisance. The main proposal was that the offal of fishmongers,
poulterers, &c., should be stored in galvanised iron receptacles
with tight-fitting covers, and that the offal should be removed
in the vessels, a subsidiary advantage of the plan being that the
storage vessels could be effectually cleansed before being
returned to the shopkeeper. I recommended that the attention
of the Sanitary Authorities generally should be called to
the subject, in the belief that many, if not all of them, would
be willing to support your Vestry's action in applying to the
Council to makp a more reasonable bye-law. This course was
adopted, and a considerable number of the Sanitary Authorities
not only expressed agreement with the views set out in the
report, but also communicated with the Council in support of
the action taken by your Vestry. The Council, however, took
no action in the matter.
* 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.
† Vide Annual Report for 1895, pp. 100-104.