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Public Cleansing in London. Report of Departmental Committee.
The Council received a letter from the Metropolitan Boroughs'
Standing Joint Committee with reference to this Report and calling
immediate attention to the following recommendation in paragraph
66 (17) thereof:—
That the system of dumping crude refuse without taking adequate precautions
to prevent nuisance arising should not be allowed to continue ; and that
the Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities who now, either directly or indirectly, send
their refuse to insanitary dumps outside the County should be pressed to secure at
once the discontinuance of these dumps for their refuse, and in any event to take
whatever measures may be practicable to minimise the unsatisfactory conditions
which now exist.
The Standing Joint Committee concurred in this recommendation
and expressed the opinion that whilst it was not possible
to secure the immediate discontinuance of insanitary refuse dumps,
the Metropolitan City and Borough Councils should at once take
all practicable measures to minimise the unsatisfactory conditions
where they now existed at certain dumps outside the County.
The Standing Joint Committee were informed that this
Council had already embodied in the conditions of their contract
for house refuse removal a clause that the contractors should strictly
comply with the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, or any amending Act or Acts or, in regard to work performed
outside London, with the provisions of the Public Health Act,
1875, or any amending Act or Acts, and also with any requirements,
rules or regulations made, or which might thereafter be made,
by the Ministry of Health or other Government Department ; also
that the contractors should strictly comply with all by-laws, provisions,
rules and regulations made under, or which might thereafter
be made under, the authority of the said Acts or any of them, and
should ensure that the various railway sidings were kept in a clean
and sanitaiy condition during the carrying out of any work under
the contract, and were left in such clean and sanitary condition at
the termination from time to time of the aforesaid work ; and that
in the opinion of this Council this condition met the point raised
in the recommendation of the Departmental Committee.
The Standing Joint Committee were also informed that in the
opinion of this Council, it was very undesirable that the services
connected with the disposal of house, trade and street refuse
should be transferred from the local sanitary authorities to the
London County Council.
Old Kent Road. Refuges by Old Kent Road Baths.
The Works and General Purposes Committee reported to the
Council on March 11th that they had had before them a letter
from Dr. F. J. Waldo, H.M. Coroner, stating that at an inquest
held before him on January 7th, 1931, touching the death of a