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Metropolitan area without restriction, and urging the Council to
consider the desirability of their obtaining the necessary powers
from Parliament, for the formation of bye-laws regulating the
trade of brick-making, in the same manner as other offensive trades
are regulated.
(b) That a communication be also addressed to the Hammersmith Vestry
urging them, as the Sanitary Authority of the district, to take
steps to compel the brickmakers to so carry on their trade as to
minimise the nuisance as much as possible.
(e) That the question of this nuisance be referred to the Law and
Parliamentary Committee, and Works, Sanitary, and General
Purposes Committee respectively, to report as to what further steps
can be taken by the Vestry in the matter.
(d) That a copy of paragraphs 34 and 35 in the Medical Officer's Report
(No. 7, July 17th, 1889), dealing with the question of offensive
smells from brick-burning, be sent to the Members of Parliament
for the Kensington Divisions, with a request that they will bring
the matter to the notice of the Home Secretary.
The above resolutions were subsequently forwarded to each
complainant as an evidence that the Yestry " fully realised the
importance of the subject, as affecting the health and comfort of
the residents of the parish, and were very anxious to do all that
lay in their power to bring about an abatement of the nuisance."
With reference to paragraph (c), it may be mentioned that
the Law and Parliamentary Committee consulted your Yestry's
Solicitors, who, after careful consideration of the subject, advised
that "the simplest and practically the only course open to the
Yestry, is to place themselves in commtmication with the London
County Council, urging upon the Council the necessity of the
trade of brick-making being brought within the scope of the
Slaughter-houses (Metropolis) Act, 1874, which regulates other
offensive businesses in the Metropolis." This course was adopted;
but the Council did not see their way to falling in with the suggestion.
At the request of your Vestry, attention was called to the
subject, in Parliament, by Sir Algernon Borthwick, who asked the
Home Secretary (16th August), "Whether Her Majesty's Government
would promote or support legislation with the view of making
such nuisances removable by law ?" to which the answer given
was that " No pledge can be given as to legislation,"