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County Council, and the various Vestries, District Boards
and Boards of Guardians in the Metropolis.
The Conference then dissolved.
Public Health
Act By-Laws.
Your Committee had before it the ByLaws
proposed to he made by the London County Council
under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, on the
following matters:—
Under Section 10 (2) (a) for prescribing the times for
the removal or carriage by road or water of any fœcal, or
offensive, or noxious matter, or liquid in or through London,
and providing that the carriage or vessel used therefor shall be
properly constructed and covered so as to prevent any
nuisance arising therefrom.
Under section 16 (2) (b) as to the closing and filling up
of cesspools and privies.
As to the removal and disposal of refuse, and as to the
duties of the occupier of any premises in connection with
house refuse so as to facilitate the removal of it by the
scavengers of the Sanitarv Authority.
Under Section 39 (Sub-section 1), with respect to
waterclosets, earth closets, privies, ashpits, cesspools and
receptacles for dung, and the proper accessories thereof
in connection with buildings, whether constructed before or
after the passing of this Act.
A letter was also received from the Council asking
that any views of this Vestry on these By-laws should be
given before the 11th February.
Your Committee recommended:—That the Council be
informed that this Vestry had no observations to make upon
the proposed By-laws.