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house, from house to house in the street or other place, the domestic refuse accumulated
during the week since the call of the previous cart. When completed,
the cart shall proceed to the street or other place next on the list, and so on day
by day until the whole of the streets and other places in the polling district shall
have been traversed and completed by the said cart, and in such a manner that the
carts shall follow one another through the district from house to house and street
to street at intervals of one week.
Every Monday morning the number of the cart, and the names of each of the
men in attendance, commencing each district shall be given to the Medical Officer
of Health, and any change in the men attending the cart shall be notified to him.
A dust cart or van shall not be removed from its district or beat during the
day, except to discharge or in case of accident, and no change shall take place
without the consent of the Medical Officer of Health being first obtained, any such
necessary change to take place with the commencement of the day.
A dust cart or van leaving its beat to discharge shall upou return recommence
collecting at the house next in order to that last visited.
The carts specially set apart for collecting dust shall not collect trade refuse
or any form of refuse for which removal is payable by the owner or occupier.
In case any owner or occupier of premises refuses to have his dust removed at
the periodical time when the cart calls, the Medical Officer of Health shall be so
informed within twenty-four hours (Sundays excepted).
The dustmen shall not neglect to call, knock, or ring at any house, tenement,
or premises for the purpose of removing the domestic refuse.
No sorting, totting, or searching of the dust shall take place either at the
houses or in the streets from whence it is removed or in transit to the depot.
Besides these provisions, special clauses are required in the contract to cover
collection in certain streets and places as in the Euston Road before 10 a.m., in
accordance with Police Regulations, also collection from public dustbins in courts
and alleys, and from public buildings and large institutions as artizans block
dwellings, hotels, eto.
Penalties must be provided for all defaults, or every non-observance of the
provisions of the contract.
Small districts and monthly payments would materially facilitate the organisation
of the system foreshadowed above.
NUISANCES.
Drain Nuisances are the most common form of nuisance, and generally the
most easily abated.
Trade Nuisances or those nuisances arising from offensive trades are mainly
controlled by the Bye-laws, and under the inspection of the County Council.
In the matter of trade nuisances, not controlled by Bye-laws, the Railway Companies
are indirectly serious offenders. Railway Companies retain a firm grasp
on land acquired. There are always small portions of ground not required for
railway purposes at the time of purchase, but which are retained for future use.
These vacant spaces, spoil-banks, etc., are expressly not built upon, in order to
avoid present taxation and future demolition, but the thirst for profit is so great that
they are under-let for the purpose of allowing some form of noxious trade to be
carried on, such as dust and refuse shooting, brick-burning, etc. The Railway
Companies, the original offenders, are shielded, and the sub-lesses make it their