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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Offensive Trades.
The following is a list of the above carried on in the Borough.
With the exception of one, in the parish of Putney, they are all
in the parish of Wandsworth.
(1).—Harrison, Barber & Company, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth
Knackers' Yard.
Do. do. Bone Boilers.
Do. do. Manure Manufacturers.
(2).—W. C. Milestone, Bendon Valley, Wandsworth Fat Melter.
(3) —Wickens, Pease & Company, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth
Bone Boilers.
Do. do. Tallow Melters.
(4).—Wm. Cole, Merton Road, Wandsworth Fat Melter.
(5).—James Ford, Bendon Valley, Wandsworth Fat Melter.
(6).—Dallett & Company, High Street, Putney Soap Boilers.
Do. do. Tallow Melters.
No complaints were received during the year with respect
to Nos. 1, 2, and 6.
In regard to No. 3, proceedings were taken under Section 21
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in August, and the
Magistrate adjourned the summons for two months to see if the
defendants (who it was acknowledged, possessed the best practicable
means of dealing with offensive effluvia), carried on the
business so as to be a nuisance. No complaint was received after
the 28th August, and the Sanitary Inspector reported on the 12th
November that certain alterations had been carried out, but that
no effluvia had been detected in the streets adjoining since the case
had been adjourned.
At the adjourned hearing of the summons on the 13th
November the Magistrate stated that the defendants having
carried on the business for two months withont nuisance arising
therefrom, the primary object of the prosecution had been attained
and he ordered the defendants to pay ten guineas towards the
Council's costs.
With regard to No. 4, an injunction had been obtained in the
High Court in 1901, but as the proprietor of the works disobeyed
this injunction by continuing to carry on the business so as to be a