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FIFTEENTH REPORT.
Gentlemen,
Among the various nuisances mentioned in the Agenda Paper,
all those connected with the houses are cases of full cesspools or
imperfect drainage. Napier's-place alone deserves special
mention, this row of houses having been already brought under
your notice in a previous report. Things have grown, since
that report, much worse, every cesspool in the row is overflowing
into the corresponding yard, producing a mass of filth
difficult to describe and highly injurious to the health of the
inhabitants.
A large quantity of damaged beans (one hundred quarters)
had been housed at Hope Granary in Church-passage,
emitting fetid effluvia, a notice was served, aud the nuisance
speedily removed.
On the 21st March I went with the Inspector on a sanitary
tour in the neighbourhood of the Railway Arches. The piggery
is much improved since my last visit, cleaner and in better
order. Many of the arches are used either for the manufacture
of patent manure, or as store-rooms for its ingredients, here
might be found every species of refuse, sulphate of lime from
the candle factories, sawdust impregnated with cocoa-nut oil,
grouud bones, coprolite, parchment cuttings, animal charcoal
from the sugar bakers, and many other substances. The arch
501, enhaled a putrid stench, the proprietor opened all the other
arches, but strangely enough could not find the key of No. 501.
I have every reason to believe that it contained animal or vegetable
matter in a state of decomposition, and caused a notice
to be served.
The Table and Oil Cloth Factory of Messrs. Pullinger and
Rattenbury was also inspected, they were not boiling linseed
oil at the time. On the premises, however, is a proper
apparatus by which the vapour arising from the oil is conducted
up a tube through a fire, and is burnt before it escapes
into the atmosphere, much of the nuisance arising from the
boiling is thereby avoided.
Raker's-rents, a row of twelve houses in Rotherhithe-street,
is entirely without water suppply, the inmates being obliged to