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Your Vestry approved my report, and forwarded it to the
Board (12th December, 1887), together with a letter, in which
it was observed that "the success of the Board's Regulations,
made under the provisions of the Slaughter Houses (Metropolis)
Act, 1874, suggested the course most likely to succeed in
preventing nuisance in connection with the storage, the collection,
and the conveyance of offensive material through streets, viz., by
the creation of bye-laws to regulate in these respects the trades,
&c., which involve the production of refuse of an offensive
character."
The Board's existence having been threatened by the
introduction of the Local Government Bill in 1888, no legislation
was initiated in that Session. Indeed, I believe that the
Committee made no report on the subject. The materials
collected are available for the use of the County Council,
whose attention doubtless has been given to it in connection
with the subject of bye-laws to which I have already referred
(vide page 114); but nothing has been done hitherto with a view
to abatement of the admitted nuisance.
NUISANCE FROM BRICK-BURNING.
Every summer complaints are made in regard to stenches,
usually observed in the evening and early morning hours, commonly
supposed to be due to sewer gas, but which are actually due to
brick-burning in localities beyond the limits of the Parish. The
reality of the nuisance is not open to question, and the law is
strong enough to put a stop to it; but the process is tedious and
costly, as was proved in two important actions decided in the
course of the year 1885, in respect of nuisance arising from this
cause at Streatham and Hampstead respectively. [A third and
local case, lately carried to a successful issue, is reported at
page 147.]