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against the Committee's proposals were the loss of
return for sundries obtained from the manufacturing,
and the nuisance likely to be created in the process of
burning. As to the former the present return is likely
to be a vanishing quantity, and what now brings in a
set off against the cost of collection may be expected
to become an additional expense. The fear of nuisance
from the process of burning is not supported by the
experience of other towns. Leicester began with one
destructor and now has three ; Leeds has upwards of a
dozen destructors ; and generally the story from the
provinces is that where one destructor has had a fair
trial, others are subsequently erected. At Leicester,
a large Board School has been erected within some
100 feet of the destructor building. It may be
remarked in conclusion that there are now two private
destructors in the Parish, neither of which can be said
to come up to the standard of any apparatus which
the Vestry would erect. No one seems to seriously
object to the rudimentary patterns referred to.
TTonse Drainage.—In November of last year the
question of preparing rules and regulations as to house
drainage was referred to the Joint Sanitary and Works
Committee, but at the present time, no result has been
obtained. The lack of such regulations makes the
work of securing good drainage difficult, inasmuch as
owners do not know what they have to do, and are
inclined to think that the proposals of the Vestry's
Officers are in excess of their legal powers. The