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12. Consumption of Smoke.—Any fireplace or furnace not
properly consuming its own smoke, being a statutory " nuisance,"
the Committee recommend that the several Inspectors be instructed
to report offences under the Act, with a view to proceedings for
the abatement of the nuisance, and prosecution in suitable cases.
18. Periodical Removal of Manure and other Refuse
Matter, etc.—-The Committee recommend tbat the Sanitary
Inspectors be instructed to take proceedings for recovery of
penalties in case of neglect or default to comply with the requirements
of the Vestry's " Notice." They think it possible that
section 85 may be wide enough to enable the Vestry by " Notice"
to secure periodical removal of " refuse matter " of offensive trades,
and recommend that steps be taken to give practical effect to this
view. They further recommend that the attention of the representatives
of the Vestry on the Metropolitan Board of Works, be
requested to the question, Whether the Board's power to make
bye-laws for "works of cleansing and of removing and disposing
of refuse," may not be exercised so as to assist the Vestry in
securing the removal of refuse of an offensive nature ?
15. Infectious Disease Hospitals : Ambulances.—The
Committee concurring in the view that the Hospitals and Ambulances
of the Asylums Board adequately provide for the needs of
the Parish, make no recommendation, but take note of the duties
that would devolve upon the Vestry should the Local Government
Board issue an Order bringing the Diseases Prevention Act, 1885,
into operation, e.g., in the event of an epidemic of cholera.
16. Disinfecting Chamber.—The Committee see no reason
for providing a chamber while the plan of disinfection by contract
continues to work satisfactorily.
17. Defective Enforcement of Sanitary Law.— [The
Medical Officer of Health had called attention to defective enforcement
of the provisions of law relative to abatement of nuisances,
and to execution of sanitary works ; there being, as the law
stands, no means of obtaining speedy abatement of a nuisance, and
no penalty for the offence of creating a nuisance. The only