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emergency. And the other three inspectors were
required to do the ordinary inspection of the parish
between them—Cooper in Wards 2 and 4, Waters in
Wards 5 and 6, and Dulwich, and Fraser in Wards
1 and 3. Wood's tabulated work, therefore, belongs
to the first three months only of the year.
In the early summer the Kent Traction Company
took premises on the east side of Addington
Mews, and soon created a nuisance of which the
neighbourhood bitterly complained. The Company
was established for the collection of stable manure
from all parts of London, and for its periodical
removal, by means of a train of four vans, drawn
by a traction engine, into the rural parts of Kent.
The vans were specially and well constructed,
capable of holding about five tons each, received
the manure directly from the carts which brought it
to the premises, and stood there until they were
fully loaded, an operation which was completed in
about two days. In the course of the following
night the traction engine drew them through the
parish, and so to their destination.
The nuisance complained of arose partly from
the stench due to the accumulation of dung (which,