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made the following bye-law which is now in force in the
Metropolis:—
(1) Every person who shall remove or carry by road or
water in or through London any fæcal or offensive or noxious
matter or liquid, whether such matter or liquid shall be in
course of removal or carriage from within or without or
through London, shall not remove or carry such matter or
liquid in or through London except between the hours of 4
and 10 o'clock in the forenoon during the months of March,
April, May, June, July, August, September, and October, and
except between the hours of 6 o'clock in the forenoon and 12
o'clock at noon during the months of November, December,
January, and February. Such person shall use a suitable
carriage or vessel properly constructed and furnished with a
suitable covering so as to prevent the escape of any such
matter or liquid therefrom, and so as to prevent any nuisance
arising therefrom. Provided that this bye-law shall not apply
to the carriage of horse-dung manure.
The principle incorporated in the above bye-law is that
offensive matter should only be removed in the hours of
daylight when the manner of its removal can be seen, and any
matters slopped over can be at once cleared up, but as will be
seen from the hours mentioned in Clause A, above, it is a
complete reversal of the principle incorporated in the
Metropolitan Police Act.
We have, therefore, the hours of daylight enacted as the
proper time for the removal of offensive matter in the
Metropolis, and the hours of darkness prescribed for similar
purposes in West Ham, and although, as shown under B, the
Corporation can make bye-laws for these purposes, the bye-laws
could not vary the hours mentioned in the Metropolitan Police
Act, while that Act is still in force.