View report page

17
penalties for default of compliance with the regulations
should be rigorously enforced against persons
who fail to come to an arrangement with the
Nuisance Authority.
Less difficulty is experienced in enforcing the removal of
cow-shed refuse, this being further provided for by
regulations framed under the "Dairies, Cow-sheds,
and Milk-shops Order, 1879;" the Nuisance
Authority, moreover, being able to bring pressure to
bear on offenders on the occasion of the annual application
for the renewal of the cow-shed licence.
The cow-keeper being thus compelled to incur the
expense of removing his shed refuse regularly, would
probably welcome any scheme whereby, without
increased outlay, this duty would be taken off his
hands by the Nuisance Authority.
The refuse of cow-sheds should be removed within specified
hours in the early morning, in vehicles specially
constructed so as to prevent slopping and effluvium
nuisance. It would be found difficult in some
districts to remove stable refuse within the same
hours, and the necessity for so doing would be less,
provided it were found practicable to abolish sunken
dung-pits, in which manure rapidly ferments and
decomposes, giving rise to intolerable nuisance when
the receptacle is emptied, and also in the passage
of the cart through the streets. Were the plan
universal of employing properly paved and drained
receptacles enclosed within iron racks above the
surface of the ground, so as to dry the refuse by air
currents, its removal might be effected at any period
of the day without offence, provided it had not
been kept too long in the stable or in the receptacle
itself, so as to become rotten and offensive.
The Committee having in the second and third sections
dealt with the "collection" of house and stable
refuse, have now only to express their conviction
that legislation will be found necessary to solve the
difficulty attending the ultimate "disposal" of such
refuse, viz., by imposing on canal and railway
companies the obligation of conveying it from towns
in boats and vans, expressly contrived for the
avoidance of nuisance and at a rate for carriage