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OFFENSIVE OR INJURIOUS TRADES.
and technical objections presented themselves to
the enforcement of the powers in question." The
Committee concluded their Report by "pointing
out to you the necessity, when the question of renewing
your Act should come into consideration, of
procuring additional powers which may enable you
effectually to remedy those evils."
On the grounds thus expressed by your Committee,
I avail myself of the present opportunity for
bringing the subject again under your notice.
In my former Report, I spoke particularly of those
trades and occupations which deal with animal substances
liable to decomposition; and in expressing
my knowledge of their danger to the health of an
urban population, I argued that no occupation which
ordinarily leaves a putrid refuse, nor any which consists
in the conversion or manufacture of putrescent
material, ought, under any circumstances, to be tolerated
within a town. To that subject I now revert,
only to assure your Honourable Court that
the past year has given me no reason to alter my
opinion. But the trades to which I wish, on this
occasion, more especially to request your attention,
are those which are complained of on the ground
of their offensiveness rather than of their injury to
health—as nuisances rather than as poisons. During
the year, I have received a very considerable
number of complaints of this nature; some of them
perhaps frivolous, but many well-founded and reasonable.