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1908, the year prior to free collection, it was 303. The form of
nuisance referred to in the table is the depositing of garbage on
vacant land, or allowing it to accumulate at the rear of business
premises, and although it is collected free of cost there are still
some tradesmen who will not co-operate with the Council in
facilitating the work by placing the refuse in a receptacle, but
choose rather to sweep it into the Public Highway to the
annoyance of the general public.
The Council have powers under their Bye-Laws to deal
with this form of nuisance, and it has been recently necessary
to specially report the infringement of the Bye-Law, and final
letters of caution have been sent to tradesmen who have been
in the habit of using the public highway as a common refusepit
informing them that future infractions of the Bye-Law will
result in legal proceedings being instituted against them.
Undoubtedly this course will have to be resorted to before
some people will assist in keeping the Borough clean.
Offal and Bone Refuse collection.—Some annoyance is
frequently caused in the summer months by the collection of
fish offal from the fishmongers' shops and bones and waste fat
from the butchers' shops.
The refuse from these trades has a marketable value, and
tradesmen have no difficulty in obtaining persons who will
collect the refuse from their premises, but the objection from
the Local Authority's standpoint is to the kind of van used for
collecting purposes, the condition in which the vans are kept,
and to the hours of collection.
Complaints have been received of the offensive odours
emitted from these van?, and letters have been sent to the
responsible persons calling their attention to the nuisance.
The Council has in past years exercised itself very considerably
to mitigate this form of nuisance by successfully
obtaining several injunctions against offal carriers prohibiting
them from creating a nuisance by sending their vans through
the district. The neighbouring Authorities equally benefitted