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complained of, must continue till the drain is sufficiently emptied by the
process to admit of repair. The Great Central Gas Company having undertaken
to consume their refuse, such a course will facilitate the process, and
tend to abate the Nuisance.
EXTRACT FROM REPORT No. 7, DATED MAY 15, 1858.
I have received further complaints of the injury occasioned to health and
property by the exhalation from the drainage of the Tower Hamlets' Cemetery.
I have well considered the subject since I last communicated with you upon
it, and am convinced that the views I then expressed were correct. The case
would be met by the Great Central Gas Company ceasing to employ wet
lime for purifying. The soil, for some distance around the premises of the
Great Central Gas Company, is so impregnated with the fluid charged with
sulphuretted hydrogen, that a cessation of pumping the fluid at the Tower
Hamlets' Cemetery would only in part correct the evil, while, without
constant drainage, the Cemetery would be useless for purposes of interment.
The subject was again brought before the Committee, in
consequence of the serious complaint contained in the next
Report.
EXTRACT FROM REPORT No. 20, DATED JULY 7, 1857.
On the 25th of June I received a request from Mrs. Soanes, of Bow
Common Lane, to examine a well upon her premises, which was represented
to have become recently useless, in consequence of the impregnation of the
water contained in it with "gas liquor," or "gas itself." Some valuable
fowls had drunk, as usual, of the water, and had died. I examined the well
and the water contained in it, and found the water strongly flavored with
that which 1 believe to be hydro-sulphuret of lime, or blue billy,—not gas,
such as is supplied in pipes, but that which is an impurity in illuminating
gas, and removed from it with considerable pains. I addressed a letter to
the Secretary of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company, believing the
pollution of the well to be derived from their works, inviting him to send
down a competent person to examine the matter conjointly with myself; and
I have received an answer, that he intends to call upon me, requesting me
to make an appointment.