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Officers of Health, in February, 1869; but as regarded Mr.
Keates' and Mr. Wills' opinions, it did not appear when or
under what circumstances they had been expressed, and the
statements sent were obviously merely extracts.
"Resolved that previously to the consideration of the question
raised by the Company, their Secretary be requested to
inform the Board at what dates, and under what circumstances
the opinions furnished had been expressed, and to
refer the Board to any complete published reports of the
same, and that upon the required information being furnished,
the subject be referred to Mr. Heisch, as Gas Examiner of
the Board, for report thereon to them."
On a communication being made to the Secretary, in accordance
with the resolution, the further correspondence took
place between him and the Clerk to the Board, of which the
following is a copy :—
Phœnix Gas Coy.,
70, Bankside,
Oct. 5th, 1874.
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 29th ult., I have pleasure in
furnishing you herewith the full report of Dr. Odling's
Lecture, from which our extracts were made. You will find
it on page 81 of the Gas Journal, of Feb. 2, 1869.* The
opinions of Mr. Keates and Mr. Wills were furnished to the
Board upon the Directors' request, as the outline of evidence
to be given at trial in July last, and do not appear in any
printed form.
I take this opportunity of correcting an erroneous impression
that appears to have been formed upon the part of my
letter referring to the nuisance which must necessarily be
* Note.—In the Appendix is contained a much fuller extract from Dr.
Odling's Lecture than was furnished by the Phoenix Gas Company with the
letter from their Secretary, of the 20th August, 1874; and also an extract from
a statement (to which particular attention is requested) made by Dr. Letheby
(the Company's Consulting Chemist) in the discussion which ensued upon the
Lecture.