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a nuisance as to attract the attention of the whole
community, is now carried on in a much more
wholesome and inoffensive manner. It would have
been still more satisfactory if I had been able to
report its complete removal from the Parish.
Great improvements have been introduced into
the collection and sifting of dust and domestic
refuse. On the one hand, as already stated,
the obligation to employ only such carts for the
conveyance of offensive matter as are specially
constructed and approved by the Sanitary
Authorities for the purpose,has been fully recognized
by the Contractors. On the other, the process
of dust sifting has been accelerated by the
substitution of machinery for hand labour. By
this improvement, the character of the process has
entirely changed, and its injurious effects on the
public health diminished.
While progress has been made in these directions,
another standing nuisance,even more injurious
to health, though perhaps not so productive of
annoyance, remains undiminished. The half liquid
mud charged with animal impurity which is
scraped from the streets by the scavengers, is still
stored in enormous quantities in the very centre
of the Parish; and in a closely inhabited neighbourhood.
Here it is allowed to decompose
gradually until it attains the proper consistence for
exportation, during which process offensive gases
and other more dangerous products of putrefaction
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