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rule, it is collected daily, and mostly in the latter part of the
day. It is rarely stored in impermeable covered vessels, and
as it rapidly decomposes, effluvium results. This is most complained
of at hay-making and harvest time, when the manure
collectors are less regular in their visits. The storage vessels
are not removed — simply emptied, and the receiving vessels,
mostly of wood, and the carts themselves, are offensive at the
commencement of the day's work—the nuisance naturally being
greatest in hot weather, both at the time of emptying the trade
receptacles, and during passage of the carts through the
streets, the tubs being usually covered with sacking only.
" Blood.-—With blood may be grouped the other refuse
matters from slaughter-houses, and with regard to these matters
I am able to report comparative absence of cause for complaint
—as a result of bye-laws, well conceived and fairly carried out
under substantial penalty for default. The various matters are
stored in impermeable covered receptacles, in which, as a rule,
they are, as they ought to be, removed from the premises,
double sets of receptacles being provided.
" Bones may be mentioned here, though not named in the
Board's letter. The nuisance from these is great, especially in
hot weather, and it may exist on every butcher's premises.
Bones, from which the flesh has been stripped, are stored usually
in uncovered receptacles awaiting the periodical call of the collecting
vehicle. The vehicles themselves are offensive, and as
they load up they become every hour more objectionable to
smell and sight, as they make their fetid progress through the
streets.
" Kitchen Stuff.—Under this head I include waste-fat,
bones, hare and rabbit skins, &c., all of which find their way to
' Marine Stores.' Skins are generally removed before they
become very offensive, but even in regard to these there is by
no means freedom from complaint, Bones and fat are generally
offensive in warm weather, being often allowed to
accumulate in considerable quantities, pending the periodical