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to offensive substances of animal origin, should make
provision with regard (1) to storage vessels, which should be
of metal, impervious, and covered; (2) to removal in iron
tank-vans or, better still, in the storage vessels themselves;
(3) to time of daily removal; and (4) to measures for disposal
of the refuse." I added that it was "open to consideration
whether the duty of removing all offensive substances should
not be imposed upon the Sanitary Authority, at the reasonable
cost of the producers thereof," a course which, in my
opinion, is imperative if nuisance is to be avoided.
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; the Committee, indeed, made
no report on the subject, but provision has been made in the
Public Health (London) Act, section 16, enabling the Sanitary
Authority and the County Council, to frame bye-laws for the
prevention of nuisances in connection with the removal of
offensive or noxious matters, which it is hoped may tend to
diminish if they do not entirely abate the nuisance. At the
present time your Vestry's bye-laws are awaiting the sanction
of the Local Government Board, but the draft bye-laws of the
Council have not yet been sent to your Vestry, as required by
section 114 of the Act, which provides that the Council shall
consider any representations made by the Sanitary Authority
in respect of bye-laws which will have to be observed and
enforced by that Authority. m