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their accommodation, and so avoid worry through
overcrowding complaints. During the year, 9 complaints
were received from the District Inspector of
insanitary conditions in work-rooms, including two
cases of overcrowding, three of dirty conditions, two
of defects to sanitary conveniences, and one of want
of ventilation to bake-house, &c.
There have been fewer complaints of nuisance from
the dust and manure wharves, which have been
inspected almost daily. Where complaints have been
made respecting manure wharves, they have been due
to the removal of " peat moss litter," which is most
objectionable when in the course of removal, but almost
free from odour when down in the stable.
There has been some difficulty in securing the
regular clearance of manure from stables, chiefly in the
summer months, when its removal is most required.
The ultimate disposal of manure is becoming every
year a more difficult problem. Farmers will not
trouble themselves about it except at such times as
may be convenient to themselves, and the extension
of the suburbs renders it necessary to remove the refuse
farther afield. The sanitary authorities are awaking
to the nuisance arising from heaps of refuse in their
districts, and have obtained injunctions in certain cases,
and in others have made bye-laws imposing restrictions
on contractors. Under Section 38 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, the Vestry are empowered
to agree with horse owners to undertake the removal