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REFUSE AND MANURE DEPOTS.
The 13 Public Depots, situated in the Borough, were
under constant (daily, during the summer months) supervision
during 1913, and, in connection with the Destructors
and Dust Yards situated in Tinworth Street (Prince's
Ward) and Commercial Road (Marsh Ward), a large
number of visits were paid, but in no instance was a
nuisance discovered with which the Council could deal under
the By-laws, having regard to the provision in the By-laws,
which permits of the depositing of refuse and offensive
matters for a reasonable period of 12 hours during the
process of removal. Cautionary letters were sent, as required,
in one or two instances, but no action was taken
before the Magistrate.
EFFLUVIUM NUISANCES.
(a) Arlington Laundry, Cambria Road, Herne Hill.
A petition was received on the 1st July, 1913, signed by
31 inhabitants of the neighbourhood, drawing attention to an
alleged nuisance arising from the choking fumes issuing from
the chimney connected with the Arlington Laundry, Cambria
Road, Herne Hill. Enquires in the neighbourhood elicited
the fact that in addition to smoke and choking fumes, small
particles of unburnt or partly burnt coal, were deposited
from time to time in the gardens in the neighbourhood. A
letter was sent to the proprietors of the laundry, and a new
furnace was in consequence fitted, being provided with smoke
preventing appliances. The chimney connected with the
furnace is not very high and it was pointed out to the
proprietors that the nuisance would not be satisfactorily
abated, unless this chimney were heightened, in addition
to the provision of the new furnace with its smokepreventing
appliances.