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Your Committee of Works having referred to me a letter
from the Clerk of the London County Council forwarding
copy of a Report made by the Public Health Committee
and adopted by the Council on the subject of the proposed
amendment of By-law No. 1 made by the Council under
Section 16 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with
regard to the removal of offensive matter, I reported as
follows:—
That the hours proposed for the removal of "any faecal
or offensive or noxious matter or liquid" in the morning,
viz.:-between the hours of 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. during the
months of March to October, inclusive, and between 6 a.m.
and 11 a.m. during the months of November to February,
inclusive, are in my opinion satisfactory, but I consider that
instead of "two hours before sunset to one hour after sunset
all the year round," it would be preferable to fix definite
times for the evening as is done for the morning, as mistakes
would be less likely to arise.
I am also of opinion that two hours before sunset is too
early for such materials to be removed in many parts of this
Parish.
With regard to the removal of horse-manure, our experience
in this Parish does not coincide with the view that it is
necessary that "peat moss litter" should be removed in
covered receptacles.
The Vestry adopted my views and so informed the London
County Council.
With regard to a letter from the Clerk of the Board of
Works for the Limehouse District with regard to the
condemnation of unsound food, which was referred to me
by your Committee of Works, I reported as follows:—
The case mentioned in that letter is a very important one
and will no doubt act as a precedent in future cases.
Some strawberries which had been sent out from Holland
were refused as being unfit for use by the Jam Manufacturers
to whom they had been sent. The Medical Officer of Health,
acting under Section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, had the fruit brought before one of the Police Magistrates,
who refused to condemn it "on the ground that there
was no evidence that the same was intended or the food of