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sulphurous fumes. Disinfectants such as carbolate of lime,
Condy's fluid, and carbolic aoid have boon plentifully
supplied to all applicants. The Board having appointed an
Inspector of Nuisances for each division of the parish, we
are enabled to give immediate attention to these matters.
It -would be well, however, if the poor generally knew that
these agents could be obtained by application at the Stone
Yard. In all cases in which the patients or friends consented,
infectious cases were removed to Hospitals, but it
is in many cases a most difficult matter to obtain that
consent; in such cases the infected persons are kept at
home, where isolation is impossible, and hence often
become a nucleus for the spread of the disease under which
they may be labouring. I think if there was a ward set
apart at the Infirmary for such cases, the distance for
removal would not be great, and many would more readily
consent to be removed than at present.
The most important sanitary inspections on which
reports have been submitted to the Board related to :—
1. The Battersea Cemetery.
2. The Alum and Ammonia Works.
3. Mr. Wliiffin's Quinine and Strychnine Works.
4. Gut-cleaning in Field Place.
5. Putrid fish-burial in Currie Road.
6. Pigs in Lachmere Grove, Lachmcre Lane, High
Street, John Street, Usk Road, Mendip Wharf,
and York Road.
7. Trade refuse deposit in Lachmere Grove.
8. Dog nuisance in Auckland Road.
9. Diseases amongst Pigs.
10. The irrigation, and sanitary condition of the
Royal Patriotic Schools, Wandsworth Common.
11. Lombard Sewer.
12. Protective Masks for men working in sewers.