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It may be mentioned that the Purfleet depot has not since
been used by your Vestry, the house refuse having been more
economically transferred, under contract, to another place.
The Purfleet land, moreover, has been let to a contractor, on
terms set out in a report by the Wharves and Plant Committee,
which was adopted by your Vestry on the 2nd December.
STABLE REFUSE.
In former reports I had to note the frequency of com plaints
of effluvium nuisance arising in the storage, and, much more,
in the removal of stable refuse from pits underground. Thanks
to the operation of the County Council's bye-law, which has
been carried out effectually in this parish, complaints are now
few in number; and as the cause of complaint, the sunken
dung-pit, is now almost a thing of the past, we may reasonably
hope to be free from annoyance on this score in the future.
This subject was fully dealt with in my annual report for 1894
(pp. 184-189), to which I would refer anyone desirous of
knowing what a serious difficulty the question involved, until
we were able to abolish, to a large extent, the brick receptacle,
whether above or below ground, and to substitute therefor the
iron cage now so familiar an object in the mews in this parishnot
far short of two hundred in number.