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which led to the afore-mentioned appeal to the Board. With
these few remarks, I pass on to observe that the only business
coming under 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, Notting Dale, gives rise
at all times to more or less effluvium nuisance, despite
improved arrangements, and care on the part of the proprietor,
as well as regular supervision by the Inspector of the Local
Authority (County Council) and your Vestry's Officers.
Complaints made by the inhabitants in the neighbourhood at
various times, have called attention to "the intolerable stench
arising from the boiling of fat and refuse matter;" a stench
described as "becoming unbearable," so that, as one memorial
expressed it, "unless something is done to stop the
nuisance," the memorialists would be reluctantly obliged " to
leave the street." The Works and Sanitary Committee
inspect the premises annually, and have on several occasions
referred to the nuisance. In one of their reports, referring to
the complaints of the inhabitants which they "believed to be
well founded," and impressed with the view that "in the
nature of the case cause for complaint is practically unavoidable,"
they recommended that "a communication be forwarded
to the County Council, pointing out the unsuitability
of the locality for the conduct of such an offensive business,
and urging the desirability of steps being taken to bring
about a discontinuance of the business." In a previous
report the Committee had stated that they did not doubt
that the proprietor took all proper precautions in the conduct
of his business to minimise nuisance, but they believed that
no effort could be wholly successful. Their conclusion, with
which I heartily agree, was, that "it would be well indeed for
the locality could the proprietor be induced to remove the
business to a less objectionable site "— inother words, out of
London altogether.