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Ambulances.
The Council have for some years past provided a wheeled
ambulance at each of the following six points in the Borough:—
Queens Road (at Queens Circus).
Clapham Junction (at Junction of Falcon Road and Lavender
Hill).
Bridge Road (at Junction of Cambridge Road and Bridge
Road).
York Road (at Junction of York Road and Plough Road).
Battersea Park Road (outside Christ Church).
Nightingale Lane (Wandsworth Common End).
These ambulances are freely accessible to the Public. They
are frequently availed of by the police and have proved of valuable
service in connection with street accidents, &c. Each ambulance
is provided with the necessary appliances, dressings for rendering
" first aid " to the injured.
Effluvium Nuisance.
During 1910, on the 13th August, a complaint was received
from 12 inhabitants residing in Park Road, of an effluvium nuisance
from the "drains or elsewhere."
On enquiry it was reported by the Council's Inspector that on
certain dates in August, an effluvium nuisance was observed by
him to be emitted from the sewer manhole in Park Road. It was
alleged by several of the complainants that the nuisance was noticed
coincidentally with the starting of the Food Specialists' Factory
adjoining. The premises of this Company were visited and
inspected, and it was found that waste products were allowed to
pass into the drains and that these were in the Inspector's opinion
responsible at times for the nuisance from the sewer manhole.
The firm's attention was drawn to the matter and I subsequently
received a letter expressing regret that, owing to the inexperience
of their workmen at starting and to certain defects in the material
and machinery, a nuisance had inadvertently resulted, and that
steps had been taken to prevent any further nuisance arising.
I visited the premises on the 7th September, in which, briefly,
the processes carried on are the manufacture of a fluid peptonoid
from dried meat by digestion with an acid in a steam digester. No
nuisance was observable in the factory itself, which was large, airy,
and well constructed, but in the yard adjoining, waste liquors and