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CORRISON OIL WORKS.
Several complaints were received as to the nuisance arising
from the smell caused by these works, and, as I reported to your
Sanitary Committee on my visiting the Works on July 9th, I found
them in a very unsatisfactory state. Since then the Company
have spent some £300 in improving the works in such a manner
as to render it almost impossible for any offensive odours to
escape.
SEWER VENTILATORS AND SEWER GAS.
The nuisances arising from these may be attributed to two
different elements.
In two cases in the parish the reason may be referred to
specific causes, viz., the Distillery and the District Railway.
In the first case, in the process of distillation, two qualities of
spirit are distilled, the one for use as a pure spirit, and the other
for a spirit used for making Methylated Spirits.
During the distillation of the former the waste flows into
tanks, where it is stored for sale, whereas the waste from the latter
(frequently distilled from rotten grain, which I have myself on
more than one occasion seen on the premises) is poured into the
main sewer, causing an emanation of a most unwholesome vapour
from the ventilator in the Fulham Palace Road, impregnating the
atmosphere for a considerable distance, and injurious to the health
of passengers and residents in the neighbourhood.
The District Railway creates a nuisance at the terminus at
Fulham from the hot water discharged from their engines into the
main sewer, which arises through the ventilator opposite Mr.
Bailey s pottery. This vapour is impregnated with sewer gas, and
is also, when it arises in column, as it frequently does, a source of
great danger to vehicular traffic through frightening horses.
These are cases which should be referred to the Metropolitan
Board of Works to prohibit, as the sewers in question are Metropolitan
and not parish sewers.
The other nuisances, chiefly arising from the ventilators at the
stunt headings, may be prevented either by erecting a ventilating
shaft against the nearest flank wall, or which would be the more
economical and easier method, the more frequent flushing of the