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providing proper traps or other coverings, or by ventilation,
or by such other ways and means as shall be practicable
for that purpose, prevent the effluvia of sewers from exhaling
through gulley-holes, gratings, and other openings of sewers
in any of the streets or other places within their district or
parish." Happily the parishioners had less cause than ever
before to complain in respect of nuisance from another common
cause of offensive odours in the streets, which used to be the
subject of continual complaints during the hot weather, those,
namely, arising from dung-pits, especially such as are below the
surface of the ground, and which, as elsewhere stated, have now
been almost entirely .abolished in this parish.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only business coming under the statutory description
" offensive," other than that of a slaughterer of cattle, carried
on in this parish, is that of a Fat Extractor, at Tobin Street,
in the Potteries, Notting Dale. The conduct of this business
gives rise to more or less effluvium nuisance, despite improved
arrangements, care on the part of the proprietor, and
supervision by your Vestry's Inspector, as well as by the
Inspector of the London County Council.
MARINE STORES.
The business of a marine store dealer is not scheduled in
the Public Health (London) Act, 1801, as an offensive business,
but it gives rise often to offensive smells; and, as it has been
held by the Appeal Court to be ejusdem generis with the
businesses scheduled in that Act, it is to be desired that the
County Council should add it to the list, as, many years ago,
your Vestry, at my instance, requested the late Metropolitan
Board to do, but without success. The premises, where the
business is carried on, are regularly inspected by the several
Sanitary Inspectors.