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OFFENSIVE OR INJURIOUS TRADES.
procure the enactment of a clause, giving you control
over so much of the nuisance as is wanton and
avoidable.
There are still under the present head, some points
to which I am anxious to advert. During the two
years that your Act has been in operation, various
complaints have been made with respect to nuisances
arising in particular trades; and with many
of the causes of complaint you have been unable
effectually to contend. Soap-makers, tallow-melters,
gut-spinners, naptha-distillers, preparers of patent
manure, dealers in soot, exposers of stinking hides,
wire-makers, dealers in kitchen-stuff, fish-curers,
tripe-boilers, type-founders, gold-refiners, slaughterers,
varnish-makers, coffee and chicoree roasters,
whalebone-boilers, iron and brass founders, keepers
of cattle-sheds, makers of printing-ink, dealers in
camphine, cookers of cat's-meat, and manufacturing
chemists, have all, at different times and in various
degrees, been complained of.
In respect of those of the enumerated trades
which deal in the manufacture or sale of organic
materials in a putrid or putrescent state, I have already
submitted to you my opinion that the City of
London, the home of a large and crowded population,
is no place for them. With regard to the many
other occupations, it would obviously be absurd, in
the present state of society, to think of banishing
them from the City which their industry has contri-