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Sanitary Work, &c.
The usual routine inspection of houses was carried on during
the year; 3,165 houses having been inspected and 2,456 orders
for the amendment of the same having been issued. The supply of
water to closets was prosecuted steadlily. and and without protest on
the part of the landlords. with the result that it was obtained in
320 cases. Seven hundred houses were registered under the
provisions of 35th section of the sanitary Act of 1866. The
Bakehouses, Cowhouses. and Slaughterhouse were regularly inspected.
Under the provisions of the Canal Boats Act, 27 Canal
Boats were registered, and 104 inspected.
Besides these. certain Factory Nusiances were on more than
one occasion, the subject of the Board's consideration; among them
1 may mention the Brooksby Chemical Works, Bow Common; the
Animal Charcoal Works, New Gravel Lane, Shadwell, and Mr.
Fisch's Furrier Premises in Gill Street.
The Brooksby Chemical Works, had, at the time it became the
subject of complaint, ceased to be a manufacturing premises for at
least nine months; previous to that time the place had been used an
a manufactory of manure, chiefly from blood, and, as such, it was
the subject of numerous complaints. Then it wan used as a depot
for putrid fish, which was collected in various parts of London,
brought hither, discharged on the ground, and placed in tanks for
conveyance elsewhere; naturally the nuisance was very great at
times, and at length, the owner on July 7th, in consequence of
the action of this Board, gave an undertaking to vacate the premises
in a month; the premises were not vacated in anything like a
month, but the operations were carried on in such a way as to cause
far less nuisance, and occupation was given up about the middle of
September. As no manure had been made on the premises for
nine months, the license held from the Metropolitan Board of
Works expired, and is not renewable.
The Animal Charcoal Works in New Gravel Lane is an old
offender, but complaints regarding it during the year were few and