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A Grease Making Business in George Yard, Whiteehapel. Also,
A Fat Melting Business in Green Street, Whiteehapel.
The undermentioned businesses have either been entirely discontinued,
or the nuisance arising from them considerably abated.
1. The preparation and drying of the Bladders and Entrails of Animals,
which was carried on in Grey Eagle Street.
2. The Roasting of Malt.
3. The making of Soap.
4. The keeping of Pigs.
5. The keeping of Offensive Matter on Premises.
G. The storing of large quantities of Methylated Spirits.
7. The making of Lucifer Matches.
8. The Dressing of Skins.
9. The prolonged keeping of Manure.
10. A Malleable Iron Foundry.
11. A Cotton-Waste Factory.
12. The Burning of Creosote for Fuel.
13. The Burning of Coke in open baskets, for the purpose of DryingPaper.
14. The Melting of Old Lead.
15. The Overcrowding of Dame Schools, In one of these Schools it
was ascertained that 30 cubic feet was allowed for each child, and in
another case only 20 cubic feet.
16. The Overcrowding of Workshops.
17. Numerous instances where Animals were so kept as to be a nuisauce.
18. The making of Fiddle Strings.
19. The making of Gelatine.
20. The re-burning of Animal Charcoal.
21. The business of a Fellmonger, &c.
Other Sanitary Improvements.
1. The better paving of the private courts.
2. Ditto of back and front yards of inhabited houses.
3. The Registration of Lodging-houses under the provisions of the
35th section of the Sanitary Act (1866), and the adoption by the Board of
rules and regulations for their better management.
4. The discontinuance of numerous cellars for habitation.
5. The erection of a disinfecting apparatus.
6. The providing of means for disinfecting rooms.
7. The improved water supply, by the use of water-waste-preventers,
whereby about 1200 houses are supplied with water direct from the main.
8. The causing to be erected numerous public dust-bins, which, by
arrangement with the contractor, are emptied daily.