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occurs for getting rid of it, and then to turn it over to emit still
more disgusting odours is a practise fraught with danger to the
public health, and should not be tolerated.
"The conclusion, then, that forces itself upon me is that our
present system of dusting is radically defective and dangerous. The
dust-bin should be done away with, and the house refuse placed in
small covered receptacles outside all houses every morning, and
emptied into carts before the traffic of the day commences.
"These carts should be covered both to prevent effluvium and
the blowing about of dust, and they should be emptied, as should
also those containing street sweepings and trade refuse, at once into
barges, covered and carried away, thus preventing the serious evils
arising from sifting the dust in the yards, and from the same being
blown about in the locality during stormy weather.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Gr. A. ROGERS,
Nov. 4th, 1878, Medical Officer of Health.
Your Resolution on this Report was that the matter stand over
for further consideration.
M any other matters came under my consideration, among which
I may mention the complaint of the School Board Officers at the
School in High Street, Shadwell, against Mr. Smellie and Mr.
Boorman, for causing a nuisance—in the one case by the operations