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to prevent the immediate and complete carrying out of
the Magistrate's order, but, nevertheless, within a very
short time the nuisance was, to a considerable extent,
abated, and by the 25th March, Lipscomb and Reed's
premises had ceased to be shoots for dust, or the seat of
dust-sifting; and the Newington plot of ground, though
still remaining a dust-shoot, only remains a dust-shoot
pending the completion of certain works which are in
progress in their own parish, and which will have the
effect of rendering their dust-shoot in our parish needless
for them.
I cannot conclude this report without again returning
my thanks to the Vestry and to the Committee with
which my duties are specially connected, for the kindness
which during the past year I have, without intermission,
received from them; nor without offering a tribute of sincere
respect to Mr. Gearing, who now, after many years'
service (owing, I regret to say, to failing health and advancing
age), retires from the post of Sanitary Inspector,
which he has filled, to the best of my judgment, with singular
zeal, ability, straightforwardness, and tact.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
J. S. BRISTOWE.