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ABATEMENT OF SPECIAL NUISANCES.
As I stated to you in mj first Report, we are happily in
a great measure free from liability to interruption of health
from a cause which, in some parts of London, is a great
source of anxiety and conflict between the desire to preserve
the public health, and to avoid interference with industrial
occupation. With but very few exceptions, I have met
with the utmost readiness on the part of the proprietors of
manufacturing establishments, to adopt any course which
could be shown to have the positive effect of rendering their
occupation less offensive to their neighbours. Considerable
expense has by some been incurred, and that it has not
been wasted, I have only to call your attention to the
improved condition, in a sanitary sense, of the premises of
Messrs. Spill, on Stepney Green, and Mr. Walmsley, in the
New Road.
A matter of greater import has, however, engaged my
attention, and as the subject has only been fully laid before
the Committee for Drainage, Nuisances, &c., I will endeavour
to explain to the Vestry the nature of the nuisance, my
views respecting it, and the steps which have been taken for
suppression or obviation.
Shortly after I undertook the duties of my office, two
years and a half ago, my attention was directed to a nuisance,
said to originate at, and proceed from, the Tower Hamlets'
Cemetery. In my First Annual Report, page 12, I drew the
attention of the Vestry to the subject, and informed them
that the nuisance was abated considerably by pumping
from a drain which had not, at that time, become contaminated.
But I cannot more clearly state the case than by