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The By-laws admit of the depositing of the refuse and
offensive matters for a reasonable period of 12 hours, during
the process of removal. Several cautionary letters were
written during the year, asking the persons in charge of the
yards to exercise more strict supervision.
Removal of Refuse from Restaurants, etc.
The Council decided on March 17th, 1910, to inform the
London County Council that they are of opinion that the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, should be so amended
as to include in the definition of "trade refuse," refuse
produced by restaurants, hotels, laundries, and similar
institutions. In Lambeth, such refuse is removed as house
refuse, but the question was brought forward by the London
County Council in connection with the case of Lyons
& Co. v. City of London Corporation, wherein it was decided
by the High Court that refuse of restaurants consisting
of ashes and clinkers, scrapings from sinks,
sweepings from rooms, coffee-grounds, newspapers, cabbage
leaves, egg-shells, dust and general dirt, broken crockery,
tea-leaves, potato parings, etc., was house refuse.