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custom amongst very many inhabitants to allow the water to run
all night on to their lawns. Mr. Bryan assured me that
even after it was shut off at night, the water delivered reached
the enormous amount of 40 gallons per head of the total
population. I also reoeived a few complaints of an offensive
smell from the water, and on communicating the fact to Mr.
Bryan, he ordered the mains of the locality to be scoured out,
although it entailed a considerable waste of water. The cause
of this was the growth of a weed in the mains, which occasionally
takes place when the temperature of the water in them becomes
high. When the plug was drawn from one of the mains I took
the temperature, whioh I found to be as high as 68 deg. Fahr.
so that the growth was not an out-of-the-way occurrence.
Chemical Works and 0ffensive Businesses.—I reported some
complaints received respecting offensive smells from Messrs.
Me ssBerger's works at Water-lane, and that on enquiry I ascertained
that they arose from a temporary break-down of the
apparatus for destroying the effluvia. Also complaints were
made to me respecting a manufactory of lacquer for brass work
at Clapton Park, which has been discontinued in consequence
of my visit, and the objection I made thereto. The fumes evolved
were very irritating to the lungs. In additiom five gut dressers
and driers have been compelled to remove from the district
during the year.
Proposed New Burial Ground in Stoke Newington.— In
August a letter acoompanied by a plan was addressed to me by
Dr. Hoffman, the Medical Inspector of Graveyards, enolosing
an application from the solicitors of the St. Anne's Home, Manor
Road, Stoke Newington, for newly establishing a burial ground
there. The ground abutted on Abney Park Cemetery, was
about 30 feet by 40, and was intended for the interment of 24
sisters, of whom there are 12 only in residence at any one time.
It was proposed that there should be only one body buried in
each grave, with at least 4 feet of earth over it to the level of
the adjacent ground. I objected to the proposal, as in my