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houses, but near to the gas works situate on the
opposite side of the Canal.
The business is chiefly carried on during the
winter months, when fish-heads, brought hither in
carts, are mixed outside the sheds with various other
manurial ingredients, such as sugar-scum, spent
shumach, wool waste from fellmongers' yards, &c.
In the summer months fish-heads are no longer
brought to the premises, and only the other ingredients
are stored and dealt in. Hitherto but few
complaints had been made of the process as carried
on during the winter, but as the summer advanced
complaints became loud, and it was therefore determined
that proceedings should be taken against the
proprietors. They ended, however, in a compromise,
the proprietors undertaking to remove all the offensive
accumulation from the sheds within a given
time, and to bring thither nothing fresh until the
time for the fish-manure manufacture to recommence
should arrive—that was until October—when, if
complaints should again arise, proceedings were to
be resumed.
During the same year I reported to the Vestry
that Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, North Row Cottages,