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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(3.) Wickens, Pease & Co., Garratt Lane, Wandsworth,
Bone Boiler.
Do. do. Tallow Melters.
(4.) James Ford, Bendon Valley, Wandsworth Fat Melter.
(5.) Dallett & Company, High Street, Putney Soap Boilers.
Do. do. Tallow Melters.
With regard to No. 1, complaint was made by the Sanitary
Inspector that the effluvia from the works were smelt in Garratt
Lane, and that on inspecting he found that the furnace used for
destroying these effluvia was not burning. Notice was at once
served.
On the 21 st June the Inspector again reported that there was
an offensive smell from these works in Garratt Lane, and on inspecting
he found that the doors of the slaughter-house had been
left open and the offensive effluvia were escaping into the open air.
On the 3rd July the Inspector reported that the furnace used
to destroy the offensive effluvia was out, and the offensive effluvia
were escaping without being destroyed.
On the 23rd July the Inspector again reported a contravention
of the By-laws in that the effluvia from the mixing tank chamber,
which receives the residues from the boiling room were escaping
into the open air causing offensive smell in the immediate neighbourhood.
On the attention of the firm being called to this, structural
works were carried out and the offensive vapours from the mixing
tank chamber were carried by means of a ventilating tube to the
furnace and there destroyed.
In October the Inspector reported another contravention of
the By-laws in regard to the storage of offensive matter in an
open shed, and proceedings were taken against the firm, but the
case was adjourned sine die, a written undertaking having been
given to the effect that the shed would not be used for storage of
offensive matter, and the firm agreed to pay £1 is. costs.
With regard to No. 3, no complaint was received by me till
the month of July, when on the 13th and 18th of that month the