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(4) To give power to the County Council to make bye-laws to regulate—
(a) The storage of offal and other offensive trade refuse whilst upon
the premises of the producer.
(b) The conduct of the businesses of brick-burner, ballast-burner, and
marine-store dealer.
(c) The construction of dung-pits.
(d) The provision of separate water supply to water closets.
(5) To enable the Sanitary Authority to abate speedily the nuisance of
overcrowding.
(6) To give power to (or entail the duty upon) the Sanitary Authority to
collect, remove, and dispose of offal and other offensive trade refuse,
and stable and cow-house manure, at the reasonable cost of the owner.
(7) To make the Hospitals of the Asylums Board free to all sufferers from
certain infectious diseases.
(8) To ensure the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering
from certain infectious diseases, and who are without proper lodging
or accommodation, enabling them to be treated at home without risk
of spreading disease ; and
(9) To enable the Sanitary Authority to make contracts with efficient
persons for the disinfection of clothing, bedding, &c., after exposure
to infectious disease.
I added that it was deserving of consideration, whether
objection should not be taken to section 30 (4) which would
appear to enable the County Council to extend the Infectious
Disease (Notification) Act, without reference to the views or
wishes of the Sanitary Authority? and I advised that opposition
should be made to clause 3 of the same section, which requires
the Managers of the Asylums Board to send the weekly return of
Notifications of Infectious Disease "to the Managers of every
Public Elementary School in London."
PROGRESS IN SANITARY LEGISLATION.
In my Annual Report for 1888, I referred to a Synopsis of
various matters, relating to the extension of the duties and powers
of the Managers, with respect to infectious disease, which were