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tleman, I gave, apart from the hundred
blood manure, fish manure,
and other factories, a catalogue of
the nuisances peculiar and exclusively
belonging to the East, as
contributories to the "explosion"
fund, consisting of Docks, Canals,
River pollutions, Sewers, &c., and
to such a degree as not to be equalled
by all the rest of London.
Then look at all the North of the
Metropolis at this time, great part
of the West, part of the centre, so
far as the High and middle levels
are concerned, and all south of the
Thames by the great south level
sewer meeting at Crossness, had all
the advantage of this efficient mode
of drainage. On the contrary, the
great bulk of the Cholera explosion
field had none of this, but worse
still, fur the most fatal district during
the epidemic— that of Limehouse—
served only as poison channels
for conveying away the sewage
filth of other parishes some 3 miles
away.
2. The East has St. Katherine's,
the London, the East and West
India Docks, with all their immense
acreage of comparatively stagnant
water, always offensive, and in hot
weather not without peril, such as
was experienced in June and July,
18G6. The Regent's Canal and