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sington at the Board be called to the subject, with a view to
their advising the Board to exercise the powers conferred by
the Act. I further drew attention to the fact that under
section 202 (d) the Board had power to make Bye-laws for
" works of cleansing and of removing and disposing of refuse,"
which, I thought, might "cover the removal of refuse from
houses and other premises," and so "enable the sanitary
authority to deal with the difficult subject of the removal of
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 purposes might
not be exercised so as to assist the sanitary authorities in the
removal of refuse of an offensive nature ?
The Members representing your Vestry 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 (1889), 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 Byelaws
"-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