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and so no nuisance would be created, as it is only after two or three
days exposure that putrefaction takes place, and the peculiarly offensive
odour is given off. If carted away within twenty-four hours
removal from the hides, there would be little or no unpleasant smell,
—a most desirable result.
There is a nuisance of a somewhat similar description, the product
of an adjoining Parish. —It is that of offensive bones, removed from
Green street, St. George's, which are shipped at Cherry Garden
stairs, passing through the length of our Parish, leaving an offensive
trail, rivalling certainly, even not surpassing that for which skutch
is distinguished. Similar precautions recommended for the prevention
of nuisance in one case, I advise to be enforced in the other.
I have certified an accumulation of manufactured manure, at premises
or lofts over the houses 130 & 131, Bermondsey Street. The
inhabitants are all suffering in health from the effluvia which is
sickening and offensive. It is a most improper place as a warehouse
or store place for manure.
There has been a fresh deposit of rags in a rope ground, at the
rear of South place, Upper Grange road, and I have certified them
a nuisance, and alarmingly dangerous to health. There is so much
recklessness and disregard of all public decency and propriety in
every circumstance connected with this nuisance, that I must
strongly urge upon the Vestry the need of at once taking every
measure which the law will permit, not only to remove the nuisance,
but to punish the offender.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN CHALLICE, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY.
June 3rd, 1861.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,-In the week ending May 28th,
the deaths were 24, of these 5 were from whooping cough,and 1
from small pox; the corrected average would be 22; the births were