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3.—Parents should not be relieved of their responsibilities in
respect of their infant children by the payment of sums
of money to other persons for adopting them.
4.—Registered persons should be required to give notice of
removal, and, upon the discontinuance of their registration,
to surrender the register kept in compliance
with Section 5.
5.—An addition should be made to Section 12, providing for
the payment of the penalties to the Board notwithstanding
anything in the Metropolitan Police Act to
the contrary.
Tucker's Tallow-melting Factory.—Some complaints were
made in July of offensive effluvia proceeding from this establishment
in Kensington High Street. The weather was exceedingly
hot at the time, and putrefactive changes in fat would be a question
of hours. Still, as the nuisance complained of arose mainly, if
not entirely, in the process of melting, I advised the firm to melt
late at night. No further cause of complaint arose. It is only
just to add that considerable outlay has been incurred on apparatus
for preventing nuisance.
PUBLIC URINALS.
A well-constructed public urinal has been erected, since the
date of my last report, under the footbridge over the Great
Western Railway in the rear of Tavistock Crescent. There
are now six public urinals in this great Parish. Your Vestry's
powers to provide such "necessary accommodation" are ample,
but difficulty has been experienced in giving effect to the
provisions of the 88th section of the Metropolis Management
Act, which enables the Nuisance Authority to "provide and
maintain urinals, water closets, and like conveniences (for both
sexes) in situations where they deem such accommodation to be
required," &c.
Owing to the opposition raised by inhabitants in the neighbourhood
of the sites selected for such proposed erections, a proposition
was made by a private individual firstly, and afterwards by a
Company, to provide chalets for the convenience of the public, as
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