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trade refuse of an offensive character produced upon the premises
of fishmongers, poulterers, greengrocers, &c." The Committee
recommended that the attention of the Kensington members of
the Board be requested to the further question, Whether the
Board's power to make Bye-laws for the above purpose might
not be exercised so as to assist the Sanitary Authorities in the
removal of refuse of an offensive nature ?
The Members representing your Yestry on the Board did
as requested, but their representations produced no effect. The
powers of the Board having devolved upon the London County
Council, and it appearing to your Vestry undesirable that the
work of the two Committees should fall to the ground, fruitless,
it was resolved, at a meeting in April last, to reprint the two
Reports, and to forward them, together with the Reports of the
Surveyor and of the Medical Officer of Health, to the Council
and to the several members thereof. The Reports were forwarded
on the 3rd May ; the covering letter stating that "the
Vestry, believing that legislation framed upon the lines of the
suggestions (contained in the Reports) "would be conducive
to the interests of public health in the Metropolis, earnestly
hoped that the Reports would receive early consideration from
the Council." Shortly afterwards a circular letter (dated 10th
May) was received from the Sanitary and Special Purposes
Committee of the Council, requesting to be informed whether
your Vestry had made Bye-laws "in pursuance of Section 202 of
the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855," for any of the
purposes therein referred to, under headings marked respectively
(a) (b) (c) and (d). The heading (c) relates to house
drainage; the heading (d) to cesspools and privies and ''other
works of cleansing and of removing and disposing of refuse."
The answer returned was to the effect that "no such Bye-laws
have been made by the Vestry, for the reason that the Vestry
has no power to make such Bye-laws. The powers originally
vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works," it was added, to
make Bye-laws for the purposes named, "now vests in the