§ VISCOUNT NEWPORTasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, considering the infectious and decaying matter which is frequently carried in dust carts, and the consequent danger to the public health, he would communicate with the Metropolitan Vestries with a view to establishing a system of covered carts, such as are used in some of the Continental towns?
§ MR. DODSONSir, the Local Government Board have no jurisdiction over the Metropolitan Vestries with respect to the construction and regulation of their dust carts; and I am afraid, therefore, that I could not undertake, with any advantage, to communicate with them in the matter. At the same time, as the attention of the Vestries will be drawn to the subject by the Question of the noble Viscount, I cannot but hope that they will be disposed to take the matter into their consideration with a view of remedying any evils arising from the present system.