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the river more than once, when I found it in an unsatisfactory
state. I communicated with the Clerk to the Lea Conservancy
Board, who promised that due attention should he given to the
matter, and since that time I have not received any more
complaints.
I have also continued my occasional inspections of the
Ambulance Station, London Fields, and was quite satisfied
with the manner in which the Ambulances were kept, and the
general arrangements, including disinfection, were carried out.
I consider the conveyances and mode of removal to be attended
with less risk to the public health than the old system of each
parish removing their own sick. There has also been an entire
immunity from small pox in the immediate neighbourhood of
this station since its establishment.
During the year several persons have called on me
respecting the newly establishing of offensive trades, and I
have in all instances informed them that if the trade should
prove offensive to the neighbourhood in which it was carried on,
legal proceedings would be taken, and in no instance was the
premises fitted up for the purpose. I have received complaints
respecting some offensive trades which were earned on in the
district, and succeeded in abating the nuisance in all cases
without the necessity of taking summonses against the occupiers
of the premises. In one which consisted in the manufacture
of waterproof cloth, the proprietor asked for time to finish
a large order which he had in hand, which was given him by
the Sanitary Committee, and at the expiration of the time
allowed, he removed his business to another parish. Another
person who boiled oil for making printing ink has discontinued
the process; and a third, who kept a very large quantity of
rags on his premises, and sorted them in the open air, has
removed out of the district, in consequence of the notices served
upon them. I think it a matter of congratidation that we have
so very few premises in this district upon which these trades
are carried on, but the inhabitants are sometimes annoyed by
offensive smells which are given off by manufacturers in an