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101
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only business coming under the statutory description
" offensive," other than that of a slaughterer of cattle, carried
on in this parish, is that of a Fat Extractor, at Tobin Street,
in the Potteries, Notting-dale. The conduct of this business
gives rise to more or less effluvium nuisance, despite improved
arrangements, and care on the part of the proprietor, and
supervision by your Vestry's Inspector, as well as by the
Inspector of the London County Council.
MARINE STORES.
The business of a marine store dealer is not scheduled in
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as an offensive business,
but it gives rise often to offensive smells, and it has been held
by the Appeal Court to be ejusdem generis with the businesses
scheduled, originally, in the now repealed Slaughter-houses
(Metropolis) Act, 1874. At my instance your Vestry made
application to the late Metropolitan Board of Works, in 1883,
to schedule the business under that Act. but without success.
And in 1896, upon receipt of complaints of nuisance arising
in the conduct of the business, an application was made to
the County Council to schedule the business under the provisions
of section 19 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
This application likewise was unsuccessful. The subject was
dealt with fully in the last annual report—pages 119-123. I
have only to add that the premises where the business is
carried on are regularly visited by the several sanitary
inspectors.
BRICKBURNING.
During the last three years, since the successful proceedings
taken by your Vestry to abate the nuisance from
effluvia caused by brickburning, no complaint has been made
by parishioners of nuisance arising in the conduct of the
business of a brickmaker, nor have I had any reason for
thinking that cause for complaint has existed. It is a matter