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Kensington 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Kensington High Street, and Kensington Road. The remainder
of the Southern Division constitutes the southeast
and the south-west Districts, the dividing line
running down Marloes Road and Lexham Gardens, to Cromwell
Road, crossing that road, and then running down Collingham
Road, the Boltons, and Gilston Road to Fulham Road.
The Inspector for the South-East District takes both sides
of Collingham Road, The Boltons, and Gilston Road. The
Inspector for the South-West District takes both sides of
Marloes Road and the whole of Lexham Gardens,
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
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
in Tobin Street, in the Potteries, Notting Dale. This gives
rise at all times to more or less effluvium nuisance, despite
improved arrangements, care on the part of the proprietor,
and supervision by your Vestry's Inspector, as well as by
the Inspector of the London County Council. The premises
were inspected by the Works and Sanitary Committee in
July, at a time when there was little going on, so that the
smell perceived in the neighbourhood was less than usual.
There was, however, a large accumulation of bones on the
premises, and by direction of the Committee the proprietor
was requested to provide for a more frequent removal.
MARINE STORES
Are not scheduled in the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, as an offensive business, but they give rise often to
very offensive smells; and as the business of a rag and bone
dealer—the popular description of the business—has been
held by the Appeal Court to be ejusdem generis with the
businesses scheduled in that Act, it would be well should