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Slaughter Houses
Drains cleansed and repaired 0
Limewashed and cleansed 3
Garbage and blood removed 1
Various Nuisances.
Dung removed from pits and heaps when offensive 30
Rubbish offensive in yards or on waste ground 15
Slops thrown from windows and on to roofs of adjoining
premises, down gullies in streets, and on
to carriage-ways 4
Urinals abolished 3
Gas escapes into dwellings from Company's mains 3
Gullies offensive in streets, gutters, &c., cleansed or
trapped 27
Horses removed from coach houses 3
Dogs, goats, rabbits, pigs, and donkey removed 9
Dangerous house reported to police 1
Chimney stacks ditto ditto 4
Offensive smoke from use of breeze 1
Smoke nuisance abated 1
Effluvia from slacking lime in cellars under inhabited
room 1
Bakehouses.
Cleansed by order 118
Men's bed room better ventilated 2
It would be an amusing chapter in the history of the administration
of Sanitary Laws, to detail the ill uses to which they
have been attempted to be put: of the complaints which have
been made—often in anonymous letters—for no other purpose
than to get rid of a tenant, or to annoy a landlord or a fellowlodger,
or to escape payment of rent. We are sorry to say, that
one of our most respectable parishioners, Mr. Elphinston, the
baker, was subjected to annoyance of the same sort, and feel it
right, for the information of the Vestry, to lay the case before
them. The complaint stated below was made to the Right Hon.
Sir George Grey, by an association called the " Operative Bakers'
Vigilance Association;" by him it was referred to Mr. Tremenheere,
who wrote to the Vestry Clerk. Here is our Report on the facts
after a most careful inspection in company with Mr. Grant. It
was forwarded to Mr. Tremenheere, and embodied in a Parliamentary
Paper, No. 175, entitled " Copies of Reports, by Mr
Tremenheere, upon the working of the ' Bakehouses' Regulation
Act, 1863,' and of correspondence as to the complaints made by
operative bakers, that the Act has not been enforced."
" In consequence of a letter addressed to the Vestry Clerk of
the Parish of St. George. Hanover Square, we have visited the
bakehouse of Mr. John Elphinston, 227, Regent-street, in order
to test the accuracy of a complaint stated in the said letter, to