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required by our notice, with the exception of raising the chimney shaft,
For this they required an extension of time, as they were about to construct
a new shaft, twenty feet higher than the one they then had in use.
Upon the completion of this, the premises were visited and inspected by
the Sanitary Committee. The improvement was most marked; no
vapour passed up the fat 6hoot, very little escaped through the opening
in the oover, and the draught from the tall chimney shaft is so strong as
to suck the vapour down the two flues at the back of the copper (even
when tho cover is thrown back), and thence through the furnace fire,
completely destroying the noxious fumes. Of course a certain amount of
smell is still given off, but the nuisance is materially abated.
Bbawn and Collard Head Manufacturing in Ellesmere
Road.
Complaint was made that the business carried on at the abovementioned
premises was a nuisance. Upon inspection, I found that an
ordinary copper in a basement kitchen was used for the business. This
was not provided with any arrangement for carrying off the steam, which
consequently diffused itself through the neighbourhood, constituting the
nuisance complained of. I recommended a "bonnet" to be placed over
the boiler, with an opening at the upper part communicating with the
ehimney flue. This was accordingly done, and tho nuisance ceased.
Various fish frying premises complained of were also inspected ; alterations,
in accordance with my recommendation, in most instances
mitigating the nuisance.
Some new Eye-Laws have been issued by the Metropolitan Board of
Works for regulating certain other offensive trades. They are given in
he following pages:—
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
The Slaughter Houses, &c. (Metropolis), Act, 1874, 37 and 38 Vic., c. 67.
BYE-LAWS for regulating the conduct of the business of a Knacker, i.e., a person whose
business it is to slaughter any horse, ass, or mule, or any cattle, sheep, goat, or
swine, which is not killed for the purpose of its flesh being used as butchers' meat,
and the structure of the premises on which such business is being carried on, within
the limits of the Metropolis (except the City of London and the liberties thereof.)
In pursuance of the above Act, by which the Metropolitan Board of Works is constituted
the Local Authority for tho Metropolis, as defined in the said Act (except the