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case, produced a large number of witnesses, who stated there was
no nuisance from the van. The Magistrate, however, decided to
accept the evidence of the Vestry's Chief Inspector, and fined
the defendants.
He further submitted report relative to the deposits and
sorting of animal and vegetable matter upon ground and in railway
arches at the rear of Stainforth Road, that occasionally
considerable nuisance was experienced from the offensive effluvia
given off from the matter in question, for some great
distance from the premises at which the sorting was carried
on. The Committee gave directions that the necessary notice
should be served with a view to the material being more frequently
removed, since which some improvement has taken place.
He further reported at this Meeting that a shed
adjoining the "Royal Oak" Public House, Patmore
Street, was being used by a family for living and sleeping
purposes, that such shed was without proper water supply or
sanitary conveniences, and, as a consequence, unfit for human
habitation. The Committee gave directions for the Notices to be
served, and the necessary proceedings taken in the event of such
Notices not being complied with. After considerable difficulty
the owner, in conjunction with the Vestry's officers, succeeded in
obtaining possession of the shed, and the nuisance was thereby
abated.
At this Meeting he also reported that complaints had
been made by residents in Stewarts Road, relative to offensive
smell proceeding from the Projectile Co.'s works, New Road,
and which was alleged to emanate from the pickling trough,
that he had inspected the premises, and found no nuisance to arise
either from the acid used in pickling troughs or from the oil used
in tempering the projectiles made upon the works, that he had,
however, discovered what appeared to be the cause of the
nuisance complained of, viz, that it had been the practice