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The more important inspections, made by order of
the Board or of the Battersea Local Committee during the
year, were:—
1. A complaint from a resident in Haines Street, that
a great escape of coal gas occurred opposite his house from
some newly erected purifiers of the London Gas Company.
Several inspections were made by me, assisted by my
colleague for Western Battersea; the allegation not being
eventually substantiated, as it was found that the purifiers
in question had never been used.
2. Investigations and Reports with the Medical
Officer for West Battersea as to the outbreak of Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, &c., on St. John's Hill, Battersea Rise,
and Wandsworth Common, comprising a very elaborate
series of investigations, fully detailed by that gentleman
in his Report.
3. Several visits to and Reports on the mode of
manufacture adopted at a factory in the New Road for the
production of Sulphate of Ammonia, in which some defects
were discovered in the system adopted. The proprietor
promised that these should be remedied without delay.
The Slaughter-houses and Cow-houses in this Subdistrict
have been, through the vigilance of the Inspector
of Nuisances, kept in a cleanly and proper manner, and no
complaints have been made.
It has been proposed to construct an immense
slaughter-house on a vacant plot of ground between
Culvert Road and the Shaftesbury Park Estate. The
Railway Companies, whose lines surround this ground,
refuse to permit a siding into the proposed buildings, which
will necessitate driving all the cattle and sheep there to be
slaughtered through the open streets from the Goods Station
at the foot of Chelsea Bridge, to the above site, a distance
of about a mile, through what will shortly be one of the
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