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accumulate in pits and brick receptacles, soon to
ferment and pollute the air that should enter the open
back windows.
I have no hesitation in saying that the time will
soon come when the Vestry must organize a plan for
daily collection and removal of horse droppings from
the streets, and manure from all stables and mews.
Not less essential is it than dust removal and other
refuse matters, or the excreta by efficient drainage.
Nuisances are created, which although not absolutely
injurious to health, ought never to be permitted in a
well-governed community with a Medical Officer of
Health preaching the value of fresh air.
The Inspector of Nuisances at present insists upon
the removal of manure every second day, or daily if it
create a nuisance; he has already abolished many
sunken pits, thereby preventing those offensive accumulations,
which upon removal are real nuisances, polluting
the air, as carts pass through the streets. All obstacles
incidental to the removal of manure by the present
irregular method of individual action, would be
avoided by the parish having power to control the
traffic, and contract for, or undertake daily removal in
any district,ward, or mews. In every mews there should
be one or more central dung receptacles, into which
any coachman or stableman should be compelled to
place the manure of his horses, and the people take
dust, ashes, and refuse from their houses. Instead of
this, there are in some mews 40 or 50 separate places
of deposit, some in stables, some under the stairs, some
outside in briek dung pits, some in small heaps steaming
under the windows of the rooms above.