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favourable consideration, and take such steps as may appear
to them desirable, with a view to an amendment of the
law in the direction indicated." Your Vestry's communication
was referred by the Board to the Works and
General Purposes Committee, and this Committee issued
(in December) a circular letter to the several Vestries
and District Boards intimating that " a representation as to
the desirability of an amendment of the law, so as to enable
Vestries and District Boards to enforce the abolition of dustbins
in such districts as may be deemed expedient, and the
substitution in lieu thereof of approved moveable receptacles
in order that a more frequent and accelerated collection of dust
may be made." The Committee, "before considering as to
any recommendation to the Board," desired to learn the views
of the Vestries and District Boards upon the suggestion, and
invited observations thereon. The result of the Committee's
enquiry has not yet been published.
In some portions of the Metropolis the system of
frequent collection is in vogue, the Sanitary Authority providing
pails for the temporary storage of the dust; and as
there can be no doubt as to the desirability of the system being
made general by legal enactment, it is to be hoped that your
Vestry's suggestions will be adopted, and that the day is not
distant when the Metropolis will have been freed from the
contaminating influence of the foul dust-bin. It is highly
probable that the Metropolitan Board will have no opportunity
of dealing with the matter in the manner contemplated, but in
any case, the pail system and daily collection being the only
proper one, it is quite open to your Vestry to put that system
into operation without waiting for legislation.
But, to return to matters as they are, it may be observed
that delay in removal of the dust was formerly due, not
unfrequently, to the inconvenient position of the dust-bin; as,
for instance, in an area, to which there was no access save by