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the health, of the people, and your Vestry have referred it to the
Law and Parliamentary Committee to frame a bye-law for regulating
such conveyance, under the provisions of the "Kensington
Improvement Act." There must be a very large amount of refuse,
coming under the definition "offensive matter" and requiring to
be removed daily, in an extensive parish like this, and it would be
a great boon to tradesmen, among others, if some arrangement
could be effected for its periodical removal.
All the licenses were granted, no opposition having been raised
in any case; but a ratepayer appeared before the Justices to
complain of a nuisance at one of his houses in Portland Road
arising from blood and manure from a slaughter-house in Princes
Mews, at the rear, welling up through the drain in the back area,
the drain having become choked by these offensive matters,
which had been allowed to pass into the drain, instead of beingput
into covered vessels for removal, as required by Regulation 5.
The Justices animadverted severely on the negligence displayed
by the licensee, and they were informed by your Clerk that in the
event of such a thing happening again your Vestry would doubtless
take proceedings for breach of the Regulations.
Slaughter-House Refuse.—Shortly after the licensing day
the licensees carrying on business in the Borough of Chelsea
presented a memorial to your Vestry, in which it was stated that
"For some time the trade has laboured under the greatest
difficulty with regard to the removal of offal and manure
from the different slaughter-houses, and as this difficulty
is on the increase," they wished that your Vestry
"would take some immediate steps to arrange for carts
to call at the slaughter-houses in the early part of the
morning, and convey the refuse to some proper place
where it can be deposited."
The memorial was referred to the Works, Sanitary, and
General Purposes Committee, by which its consideration was
postponed until the sub-committee, appointed to visit Leeds for
the purpose of seeing "Fryer's Destructor" in operation, should
have presented their report, an event we are now (in June) looking