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Hackney 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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more alive to the necessity, from a health point of view, of haying
this material speedily and regularly removed from the premises,
and I am hoping that it will not be necessary to put into operation
the penalty section of the bye-laws.
A list of the number of houses where the dustmen were refused admission, to remove the dust during the month ending December 31st, 1895: —
| Week ending December 7 th | 11,640 |
| „ „ 14th | 10,937 |
| „ 21st | 10,77-5 |
| „ „ 28th | 7,942 |
| „ 31st | 3,012 |
| Total | 44,306 |
In my last annual report I commented upon the annual increasing
cost to the Parish for the removal and disposal of its house refuse, and
expressed the opinion that the Vestry ought to undertake the
entire removal and destruction by fire of the house refuse of the
parish On the 25th of September, 1895, the following report on
this subject was submitted by the Sanitary Committee to the
Vestry.
HE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.
Adverting to reference from the Vestry of the 9th January last:
"That it be an instruction to the Sanitary Committee, to
consider the advisability of the Vestry itself undertaking
the removal of house refuse, etc., at the expiration of the
nresent contract, and to bring up a report, at the earliest
possible date."
Your Committee have to state that they advised the Vestry at that
time of the impracticability of carrying out the reference at the
expiration of the existing contract, there not being sufficient time
to make the necessary enquiries and arrangements in an important
matter of this kind, but that the question was still being considered
and would be reported upon in due course. The contract system was