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should receive reasonable compensation for so doing." And
" in any case the refuse should be collected daily in the early
morning hours, and conveyed in properly constructed covered
receptacles, or in vehicles expressly adapted for the prevention
of effluvium nuisance." Passing over the Society's recommendations
with regard to House Refuse—a subject now under
the consideration of a Special Committee of your Vestry—it
may be stafed, with respect to stable and cowshed refuse, that
the Society urged that ''the Nuisance Authority should have
the same right everywhere, as in the City of London, to collect
such refuse when the owner is in default, and to charge him
with the cost of so doing;" the "default" being noncompliance
with the Regulations which the Authority possesses
power to frame under the 53rd section of the Sanitary Act,
186(3, for the " periodical removal " of manure, etc., by the
owner. Regulations have been framed under the Dairies Order
of 1885, for the removal of cowshed refuse, and it is now done
pretty regularly. With regard to this refuse, however, the
Society intimated that it "should be removed within specified
hours in the early morning, in vehicles specially constructed so
as to prevent slopping and effluvium nuisance." Reference was
made to the greater difficulty of getting stable refuse removed
within the same hours, and to the fact that " the necessity for
so doing would be lessened, provided it were found practicable
to abolish sunken dung-pits, in which manure rapidly ferments
and decomposes, giving rise to intolerable nuisance when the
receptacle is emptied, and also in the passage of the cart through
the streets. Were the plan universal of employing properly
paved and drained receptacles, enclosed within iron racks above
the surface of the ground, so as to dry the refuse by air currents,
its removal might be effected at any period of the day,
.without offence, provided it had not been kept too long in the
stable, or in the receptacle itself, so as to become rotten and
offensive.'' The Society, in conclusion, expressed its conviction
that " legislation will be found necessary to solve the difficulty
attending the ultimate 'disposal' of Refuse—viz., by imposing