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Battersea 1894

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1894

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Auborn & Heavyside, Manufacturing Confectioners,
Falcon Terrace.
Draper's Wood Chopping Yard Shops, Este Road.
Woolf & Sons, Pencil Factory, York Road.
Garton Hill & Co., Saccharine Works, York Road.
The Midland Railway Co's. Goods Yard, Wandsworth
Road Station.
The Projectile Works, New Road.
The London Steam Stone Saw Mills, Stewart's Road.
Messrs. Sears, Stone Works, 26, Stewart's Road.
Messrs. Featherstonhaugh, Brewery, Battersea Park
Road.
In many of these premises the sanitary conveniences were
entirely re-constructed.
Complaints were made respecting effluvium nuisances from
factories in the York Road, in July. The factories were kept
under constant observation by day and night but no nuisance
was discovered.
Common Lodging House, 142 & 144, High Street.
Upon the premises being visited insufficient water closet
accommodation for the lodgers was found to exist, the registered
number of the latter being 50, in addition to which the premises
in question were occupied for business purposes. The Sanitary
Committee in February, directed notices to be served for the
provision of extra sanitary conveniences, the consequence being
the premises have been closed for the purpose of a common
lodging house, a very beneficial result.
Public House Urinals.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector reports to the Sanitary
Committee in January of each year, as to the condition and
sufficiency of the urinal accommodation at every public-house
in the parish. These were inspected as usual, there being some
159 attached to licensed premises throughout the parish, by a