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At 40a, Northcote Road, the London County Council drew
attention to inadequate w.c. accommodation at this yard which
is used as Stabling and Carpenter's Shops. It was found that
about 20 men were engaged here for whom one w.c. was provided.
This, however, being defective, notice was served upon the
owner and the w.c. re-constructed.
The sorting and sifting of house refuse being carried on at
Hudson's Dust Yard (Wandsworth Common Goods Yard,
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company), was
reported upon on several occasions. The Sanitary Committee
directed that Mr. Hudson's attention should be called to the
fact that he was liable to heavy penalties for carrying on the
sorting and sifting, and that unless it was discontinued the
Vestry would have no alternative but to press for penalties.
Since this communication was sent no recurrence of the nuisance
has been detected.
Effluvium Complaints were made of nuisance from Beaufoy's
Nuisances. works where the manufacture is chiefly Acetic Acid
and Glaubers Salts, the processes being by distillation of the
Acetic Acid from Oil ot Vitriol and Acetate of Soda, also from
Muriatic Acid and Acetate of Lime. Most of the stills were
found to be steam jacketed from which very little effuvium is
given off. One still was not steam jacketed this had been seldom
used but would appear to have been the cause of complaint.
The use of this still has now been discontinued and the tanks
of Acetic Acid covered, since which no nuisance has been
detected. The sanitary conveniences of these Works were
also inspected at the same time and found defective, and as a
consequence the same have been re-constructed.
At the following premises, as the result of inspection, great
improvement has been effected in the provision of proper and
separate sanitary conveniences for the different sexes employed,
and also in the cleanliness of the buildings, &c., which are now
in good sanitary condition:—