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its Local Committees, to the Sanitary requirements of the
District is attended by the most beneficial results.
The Return, (Table VI), shows the number of complaints
brought under the notice of the Committees, and
the proceedings taken thereon. The Slaughter-houses, Cowhouses,
and Fishmongers' premises, have been periodically
inspected by the Board's Sanitary Officers.
Under this head should perhaps be mentioned a sanitary
matter to which considerable time and attention is devoted
by the Board's Committees and their Officers, and which is
of great importance to the health of a growing community,
viz., the collection and removal of Dust, &c. The great cost
of this work, and the constantly increasing difficulty attending
the disposal of the matter collected, renders it almost
impossible for the Board to arrange for the clearance of
each house more than once in every two weeks. This the
Board endeavour to do, and they have by circular and otherwise,
appealed to householders to assist them. The Board
now urgently request all householders to see that the men
are not refused the dust on calling, and that any vegetable or
animal matter that may be burnt, buried, or otherwise destroyed,
is not placed in the Ashpits. The Board may also
remind householders that it is an offence, punishable by fine,
to refuse the Dust when called for by the Board's Scavengers.
The Circular issued by the Board, under the signature of their
Clerk, was in the following terms:—
Removal of Dust, &c.
The attention of the Board has been called to complaints
of the non-removal of dust from premises within their District,
and it has been reported to them that the complaints
are generally not so much as to the quantity of dust in the
ashpits as of the offensive character of. their contents, caused
by decomposed vegetable and animal matter and other refuse
thrown into the same. The Board are of opinion that the
deposit of such matter or other similar refuse in the ashpits
is, particularly at this season of the year, very objectionable,
and that such refuse should be burnt or otherwise destroyed