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ing that, while objectionable smells did proceed at times from
the Company's Works at Kensal Green—such smells being
caused by the elimination of sulphur impurities from the gas,
according to the stringent requirements of the Metropolitan
Gas Referees—every known appliance for the prevention of
nuisance was adopted by them ; and suggesting that the Gas
Referees be communicated with, with a view to a visit being
made to the works on their behalf, when the Company were
of opinion the Referees would be able to satisfy the Vestry
that the best possible system was being carried out, or, in the
case of a suggested improvement, the directors of the Company
would immediately give instructions for its adoption.
To the Company's letter a reply was sent, in November,
intimating that the Vestry adhered to the position taken up
with regard to the legal responsibility of the Company to see
that no nuisance shall arise from smells from their works, and
left it to the Company to appeal to the Gas Referees, if they
thought any useful purpose would be served by their so doing.
That the cause of nuisance is more or less within control would
appear from the intermittency of the complaints, and as the
smells are at times not perceptible to any painful extent in the
vicinity of the works.