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"Provided that this bye-law shall not apply to the carriage
of horse-dung manure."
The Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, which at present
regulates the removal of fish offal in West Ham, renders it
unlawful to remove fish offal between the hours of 6 o'clock in
the morning and 8 o'clock in the evening, the consequence being
that no fish offal collected in London during the winter months
can pass through West Ham, and during the summer months,
only between the hours of 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the morning.
At the same time, it is lawful in West Ham to collect fish offal
during the evening, which, in the summer months, gives rise to
grave complaints. It is obviously ridiculous that the regulations
as to the carriage of offensive matter should be diametrically
opposite on the two sides of the Western boundary of the
Borough.
Section 55 of the West Ham Corporation Act, 1900,
provides for the repeal of the provisions of the Metropolitan
Police Act, specifying the above hours as from the coming into
operation of any bye-laws made by the Corporation under
Section 70 of the West Ham Corporation (Improvements) Act,
1888, or Section 26 of the Public Health Acts Amendment
Act, 1890. It would appear that the above bye-law of the
London County Council, with the substitution of the word
West Ham for that of London, would be a suitable bye-law for
the purpose of assimilating the time in the two districts, and I
recommend that such a bye-law be made under the Public
Health Acts Amendment Act, instead of the West Ham
Corporation Act, 1888.
Public Health Committee's Report, 21st November, 1900.
Clause 9.
That, with reference to Clause (h) of the report of the Medical
Officer of Health, they recommend that a draft of the following bye-
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