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themselves strongly to a project of the Metropolitan Board for
expending some twenty thousand pounds upon a deodorising
experiment with per chloride of Iron. They argued that the
sanitary evils resulting from the river stench in 1859 had not
been well marked, that the occurrence of the stench in 1860
was very problematical, while the prevention of the stench by
the means proposed was still more so. In consequence of the
summer proving to be one of the coolest and wettest on record,
the river did not become at any time offensive, a result fully
justifying the protest of the Vestry against an enormous
expenditure, which the character of the season, of itself,
rendered quite unnecessary.