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REFUSE AND MANURE DEPOTS.
There are in Lambeth Parish several Depots for the
loading and unloading of house refuse and manure, and
during the year these have been under frequent (weekly,
sometimes bi- or tri-weekly) inspections. Such depots
must, of necessity, be nuisances at times, and what the
Vestry has to do is to see that a minimum of nuisance
exists, and that reasonable precautions are taken by those
to whom the depots belong, to prevent a greater nuisance
than is necessary in the carrying out of the particular
business involved.
Lambeth, by virtue of its river frontage, seems to attract
the dust contractors of several different metropolitan
parishes, viz.:
St. Giles' and Holborn.—Dust and slopping, at Cookson's
Depot and Wharf, Albert Embankment.
Strand.—Dust, slopping, manure, &c., at Shot Tower
Wharf, Commercial Road.
City of London.—Dust, slopping, manure, &c., at Letts'
Wharf, Commercial Road.
Clerkenwell.—Dust, slopping, manure, &c., at Phoenix
Wharf, Commercial Road.
The Lambeth Vestry's own dusting and slopping (loading
and unloading) is carried on at the Wharf, also in Commercial
Road, but in such a manner as to be an object
lesson to the officials of neighbouring depots. Indeed,
towards the end of the year 1897 the Vestry was advised by
the Medical Officer to take legal proceedings against the
City of London and Clerkenwell Vestry in respect of the
way in which their respective depot yards were being kept
— manure, and other offensive matters, e.g., house and