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EFFLUVIUM NUISANCES.
Imperial Light Co., Ltd., Bowling Green Street.
Complaints were received during 1910, as to the existence
of an effluvium nuisance in connection with the Bowling
Green Street Works, of the Imperial Light Co., Ltd., where
acetylene lamps are manufactured—the process, consisting
of coating calcium carbide with resin, which is heated in
a copper for that purpose, the carbide being dipped into
the heated resin and laid on a perforated trav to cool,
causing effluvia to escape and pass in certain states of the
winds, into the neighbouring premises (dwelling houses and
business places). Further, the resin is heated in a copper
by means of coke, also causing fumes. The Company was
communicated with, and the business was finally transferred
to other premises in the country, and the nuisance
from the fumes from the calcium carbide and resin processes
ceased, though the coke fumes at times, in certain
states of the winds, still gain entrance into some of the
neighbouring premises.
Previous to removing the process to the country, the
cold treatment of oils in connection with the trade process
of treating the carbide was tried, but without satisfactory
results.
REFUSE AND MANURE DEPOTS.
The 13 Public Depots, situated in Lambeth Borough, have
been under constant (daily, during the summer months)
supervision during 1910. In connection with the Destructors
and Dust Yards situated in Tinworth Street (Prince's
Ward) and Commercial Road (Marsh Ward), a total of 250
visits have been paid during 1910, but in no instance was
a nuisance discovered with which the Council could deal.