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The dust is collected bi-weekly in all parts of the district by the
Council's workmen, and no complaints have been received.
The collected refuse has been disposed of by the Destructor, and no
nuisance has arisen from the process of burning, nor complaint made
to me.
The complaint of former years, as to remissness in enforcing the byelaws
of the Essex County Council against the sweeping from shops and
houses into the roadway of waste-paper, shavings, etc., and against billposters
throwing down and leaving in the street paper torn off hoardings,
does not so much apply as in former years, but there is still room for
stricter supervision.
Approximately 16,000 tons of house refuse were collected, and burnt
in the Destructor, and the resulting 6,000 tons of clinker were disposed
of on works undertaken by the Council.
COWSHEDS, MILKSHOPS AND DAIRIES.
The new bye-laws governing these have not yet come into operation.
They are a great improvement on those in existence, and will materially
help in the maintaining in all cowsheds of ample lighting, ventilation,
air space and cleanliness by the adoption of a standard.
The bye-law providing that the hands and clothing of the milkers are
to be thoroughly clean and free from all infection and contamination is
strengthened by one placing on cowkeepers the responsibility of supplying
at or near the cowsheds the means to effect such cleanliness.
Stringent and specific bye-laws are no doubt valuable as means to an
end, but without scrupulous cleanliness on the part of the milkers and
those subsequently handling the milk, no satisfactory or clean milk is
possible for the consumer.
Many of those engaged in the tending and milking of cows have no
conception of this, and a standard of purity for milk as sold is essential
if the public are to be safeguarded.
That a much cleaner and more wholesome supply of milk, than at
present is supplied to the consumer, can be obtained without a costly
outlay in premises or special apparatus has been clearly shown in a
report made in. 1907-8 for the County Councils and County Boroughs
of Yorkshire.