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REFUSE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL.

t Transferred from Works to Health Department.
* New system of collection introduced.
The effect of the weekly collection of dust from house to-house must be
beneficial to the health, comfort, and peace of mind of the inhabitants of the
whole District.
Your Vestry wisely recognised that it would not be possible for yorr
Authority itself to efficiently undertake the work of collection and removal
of dust until provision had been made for its disposal. The Destructor now
being erected in the King's Road will remove the great difficulty of disposal,
compared to which collection and removal are more simple matters.
In expectation of the completion of the Destructor, clauses have been
inserted in the " Dust Contracts" requiring the contractors when called upon
to deliver the refuse at the Destructor for disposal, and to allow a rebate per
cubit yard so delivered.
NUISANCES.
Dead Animals.—Last year I called attention to the difficulty of destroying
small domestic animals, dogs and cats, and of disposing of the bodies of such
animals, whether killed properly or accidentally, or dying of age or of
disease. I suggested that it was worth the consideration of your Vestry to
provide a place where such animals might be painlessly put out of existence and
their bodies disposed of without nuisance, instead of encumbering the Regent's
Canal, vacant spaces, and thoroughfares. The possession of a Destructor will
enable the bodies to be destroyed readily, and in addition it simply requires a
small Kennel furnished witb a charcoal brazier to put painlessly out of
existence any animals that may be brought, by those who are frequently
distressed beyond measure by their inability to provide a painless death for
their domestic companions.