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deal of trouble, year after year passes by and nothing is done.
The Society of Medical Officers of Health did what it could after
the trial of the above-mentioned actions, by drawing the
attention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the subject, in
a communication to the effect (1) that there are sufficient
reasons for regulating the trade of brick-making by bye-laws,
as other offensive trades have been regulated with manifest
advantage to the public; and (2) that owing to the considerable
distance to which the effluvia of brick-burning travel, and to
the fact that many of the brickfields contributing to the
nuisance are outside the Metropolitan area, legislation should
be general, and apply to areas within a specified distance of
centres of population.
COMMITTEE FOR CARRYING OUT THE
NUISANCES REMOVAL ACTS.
With the view of accelerating proceedings in cases of
nuisance, your Vestry decided, in February, 1885, to appoint
the Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee, to be
a Committee to "receive notices, take proceedings, and in all
respects execute the Nuisances Removal Act for England,
1855, and all Amending Acts." The Committee meet for the
purposes of the Acts once a week, and Notices are issued upon
the immediate authority of the Committee, who in due course
report their proceedings to your Vestry. Summonses continue
to be heard by the Justices, in Petty Sessions at the Vestry
Hall, who now sit weekly for the transaction of Sanitary
business.
THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Tables VI. and VIa (Appendix) contain a summary of the
work of the Sanitary Inspectors during the year ended March
25th, 1889. One-hundred and fifteen summonses were taken out