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the statutory description "offensive," other than that of a
"slaughterer of cattle," carried on in this Parish, is that of a
"FAT EXTRACTOR."
This business, at Tobin Street, Netting Dale, gives rise to more
or less effluvium-nuisance at times, notwithstanding improved
arrangements, and care on the part of the proprietor, and regular
supervision by the Inspector of the Local Authority, i.e., the
County Council. These premises were inspected in July by the
Works and Sanitary Committee, who, in their Report, stated that
"many of the inhabitants in the locality made complaints of the
stenches as they occur late at night, when the boiling of
miscellaneous collections of house refuse, contents of hog tubs,
scraps of broken food from hotels, &c., is going on; the fat being
collected into barrels, and the liquid remaining over being taken
away in a properly constructed iron tank-van, for use as food for pigs.
A very large collection of bones that had been properly stored
in a closed chamber, was in process of removal, and contributed to
the sickening smell which was common to the entire premises."
The Committee did "not doubt that the proprietor takes all
proper precautions, in the conduct of his business, to minimise
nuisance, but they believe that no effort can be wholly successful."
Their conclusion, with which I heartily coincide, was that " it
would be well indeed, for the locality, could the proprietor be
induced to remove the business to a less objectionable site"—
in other words, out of London altogether.
MARINE STORES.
Every year, during the hot weather, complaints are received in
regard to stenches arising in the collection, removal, and storage of
bones, fat, and other animal matters, in a more or less putrid
condition, in connection with the business of "marine-store
dealer." Other businesses, such as those of fishmonger,
poulterer, &c., may be, and often are, the cause of nuisance and