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law be submitted to the Local Government Board, with a view to its
ultimate adoption by the Council under the provisions of the Public
Health Amendment Act, 1890:—
"Every person who shall remove, or carry by road or water
in or through the County Borough of West Ham, 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 the borough except between the hours of
4 o'clock and 8 o'clock in the forenoon. Such person shall
use a suitable carriage or vessel, properly constructed and
furnished with a sufficient 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."
Public Health Committee's Report, 5th June, 1901.
Clause 22.
That, with reference to Clause 9 of the report dated 21st
November, 1900 (Vol. XV, page 57), recommending the adoption of
the bye-laws prohibiting the removal of the fæcal, offensive, or noxious
matter or liquid through the Borough, except between the hours of
4 o'clock and 8 o'clock in the forenoon, the Town Clerk submitted
letters from the Local Government Board and from Messrs.
Clapham, Fitch & Co., on behalf of an Association of Soapmakers,
Tallow Melters, and Bone Boilers in London and West Ham, from
which your Committee find that negotiations have taken place
between the Local Government Board, the London County Council,
and the Association of Manufacturers in question, with the result that
the Local Government Board propose to sanction bye-laws for London,
allowing the collection to be carried on between 7 a.m. and 2