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and I recommended that the necessary steps be taken to enforce
the provisions of the law, as above set out. I will only further
observe that, if due care were exercised in giving effect to the
recommendation with reference to the removing vehicle, which
might be a covered cart or wagon, similar in construction to a
properly covered dust-cart, there would be no occasion to
remove the refuse matter oftener than on alternate days as the
existing regulation requires, and that any expense to which
the owner of such refuse might be put, in providing a suitable
vehicle, would probably be less in amount than the fines to
which he would render himself liable, should he disobey the
requirements of the notice of the Sanitary Authority, or the
order of the petty sessional court.
The Sanitary Committee reported on this subject in June,
stating, with reference to the complaints received from
parishioners" of offensive smells from manure at those stables
where a large number of horses are kept, particularly during
the disturbance of the manure in the process of its removal,"
that" it is necessary, in order to abate the nuisance, that vans
or portable receptacles should be used for the storage of the
manure, in which vans or receptacles the manure could be
removed without the emission of a considerable amount of
effiuvium." They therefore gave "directions for a communication
to be addressed to the owners of all stables of the class
referred to requiring them to adopt this course." But I am
not aware of any instance in which this course was adopted.
In July a further recommendation of the Sanitary Committee
was adopted by your Vestry, authorising the Medical
Officer of Health "to give notice for the daily removal of
manure in those cases in which he may deem it necessary for the
abatement of the nuisance" (which had been complained of
as existing at stables where a large number of horses are kept),
"that the manure should be removed more frequently than once
in every forty-eight hours,"