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REFUSE AND MANURE DEPOTS.
The various depots have been under frequent inspection
throughout the year, and during the summer months these
inspections have been not less frequent than tri-weekly.
The City of London and Clerkenwell Vestry depots, which,
at the end of 1897, were anything but satisfactory, have
much improved, so that there has been no occasion to take
any further legal action against either of them.
Two Railway sidings,* which are used as outlets for
offensive matters, chiefly manure, have been carefully
watched during the year, and have at no time been found
sufficiently bad to warrant legal action being taken against
the owners in either case.
The condition generally of the different refuse and
manure depots in the Parish has been, throughout the year,
satisfactory. The mews throughout the Parish have been
inspected also, from time to time, and any insanitary
condition, when found, remedied. During the summer
months frequent inspections had to be made to prevent
accumulations of manure being left in mews so as to be
a nuisance, and notices had to be served.
In connection with the stables belonging to the South
London Tramways Company, and located in arches belonging
to the L. & S. W. Railway Company, in Westminster
Bridge Road, action was taken owing to their dark,
unventilated, and generally insanitary condition, rendering
the stables unfit and even dangerous for men (and animals)
to live in. It was finally decided by the Company to
* One belongs to L. & C. D. Railway Company at Herne Hill, and the other
to the L. & S. W. Railway Company at Nine Elms.