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4. That this meeting desires to call the attention of the railway companies,
and managers of theatres and other places of public resort, to
the unsatisfactory character of much of the sanitary accommodation
provided for women, and to the necessity for having only sanitary
conveniences of good modern type and construction.
With regard to Resolution No. 1, it is pointed out that, although the
system now so largely adopted by the railway companies of providing lavatory
carriages on long-distance trains has proved an enormous benefit to both men
and women travellers, still there is considerable evidence that the accommodation
for women at railway stations all over the country is often insufficient
and insanitary, whilst the necessity for payment, which is still universal for
women at railway stations, operates harshly on the travelling public of the
more necessitous classes.
Appropriate communications on the subject of the aforesaid resolutions have
been addressed by the Council of the Royal Sanitary Institute to the Local
Government Board, the Board of Trade, the London County Council, and the
principal railway companies.
§ 8.—STORAGE AND REMOVAL OF OFFENSIVE
MATTERS. CLEANSING AND SCAVENGING.
Trade Refuse.—A communication was considered by your Highways, Sewers,
and Public Works Committee from the London County Council stating that
they have received a suggestion from the Islington Borough Council 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 trading institutions. Before coming to any definite decision on
the matter, the County Council desired to obtain the observations of the Local
Authorities on the suggestion, and the Borough Council was therefore asked to
give their views on the proposal of the Islington Borough Council, as well as
on the epiestion of the possibility of instituting in the Borough a system of
daily removal. The County Council would at the same time be pleased to
receive particulars of the methods now in operation within the Borough for the
removal of refuse from restaurants.
A letter was also received from the Islington Borough Council forwarding
copy of the following letter they addressed to the London County Council
upon the question, and asking the Borough Council to support the action
taken: —
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Town Hall,
Upper Street, N.,
10th January, 1910.
Sir,
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. Removal of Refuse.
My Council have recently had under consideration applications bv Messrs.
Lyons & Co., the Lauiulerer's Association, Ltd., and other similar trading