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I may be permitted to add that in the Special Report
already adverted to, on "Sanitary, Nuisances Removal, and
other cognate Acts," I placed my views on this subject
generally, before your Vestry. The Law and Parliamentary
Committee, to whom the report was referred, recognized "the
necessity for making proper arrangements for the removal of
manure and other refuse matter," but stated that "the Vestry
had not depot accommodation, or staff or plant, adequate to
cope with so large a work." For this reason, they considered
that the Vestry was not then "in a position to contract
generally for the removal of manure and other refuse matter."
The circumstances are now different, your Vestry having an
admirable depot at Purfleet, to which the manure could be
conveyed from the river and canal-side wharves, and where it
would probably command a ready sale at a remunerative price
for use on the land. The Works and Sanitary Committee, in
a report, dated September 7th, 1892, dealing with the precautions
necessary to be taken in connection with the then apprehended
visitation of Cholera, stated that, " in considering
general matters bearing upon the sanitary administration of
the Parish, they were led to discuss the question as to the difficulty
which is at present experienced, in securing the due
and periodical removal of manure and filth from the stables
and mews of the Parish, and were of opinion that the time had
now arrived when the Vestry should, on Sanitary grounds,
undertake the removal of such manure, &c., themselves."
They accordingly recommended, "That it be referred to the
Wharves and Plant Committee to consider and report as to
the practicability of a scheme being adopted for this work to
be undertaken by the Vestry." This course was adopted by
your Vestry, and on the 9th November, 1892, a report by the
Wharves and Plant Committee was adopted, to the effect,
"That the Committee had considered the reference by the
Vestry as regards the suggested removal by the Vestry,
of the manure from the stables and mews in the Parish, and
had to report that they were of opinion that the expenses of