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this applied with especial force to road-ways
laid with wooden blocks.
As heretofore this process was assiduously
carried on in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate
Market, and the Custom House, as
affording the best means of mitigating the
evils arising from the road-way being paved
with granite blocks. In this part of Lower
Thames Street deodorants were used at least
twice every twenty-four hours, it being difficult
otherwise to keep the place free from
nuisance caused by the leakages from the
fish carts, which rapidly decompose and stink
abominably, and which, owing to the construction
of the road-way cannot be thoroughly
swept by the scavengers. Formerly traders
and others in this immediate neighbourhood
were constantly complaining of the nuisance
created as above during the hot weather, but
since greater attention, by your Cleansing
Department, and the adoption of a more
liberal use of chemicals on the road-way,
gullies, and catch-pits, the place has been
kept comparatively free from smell, and the