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PUBLIC MORTUARY.
During last year your Vestry removed 6 dead bodies
of persons who had died from infectious diseases, and 2
bodies of persons for whom no proper accommodation
could be found at the late residences of the deceased, to
the mortuary at the Wharf, Chancellors, There were 135
bodies brought to the mortuary by order of the Coroner
or the Police, 30 of these were taken from the West
London Hospital, and included 10 parishioners and 20
non-parishioners.
PUBLIC NUISANCES.
During last year I brought before your Public Health
Committee complaints received by me in reference to the
following alleged public nuisances:—
I. Nuisance from fumes from a shaft at the Brook Green
Carpet Cleaning Works.
II. Offensive odour from brickfield at the end of Ormiston
Road, Shepherd's Bush.
III. Nuisance from gullies in the neighbourhood of
Raynham Road.
IV. Offensive effluvia from roof of the retort house of the
Great Western Gas Works, College Park.
V. Offensive odour caused by a product of the compression
of a mineral oil discharge into the main sewer at,
near to College Park.
The whole of these complaints were reported upon by
me, and had the careful consideration of your Committee.
PROSECUTION OF BRICKMAKERS IN WOOD LANE.
The process of brickmaking has been extensively
carried on at Mr. A. Bird's brickfield, Wood Lane, and
no nuisance has been ascertained to exist nor has any
complaint been received through the year,