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large a quantity of offensive material, certain
regulations were agreed to by the Sanitary Committee
to the effect that all clearings from the
basin should be immediately covered with lime,
and that they should as soon as possible be
removed to places selected by the Committee as
being at a sufficient distance from inhabited
buildings. At the same time the occupiers of
wharves adjoining the basin were cautioned that
the Sanitary Inspector had been authorized to take
proceedings at the Police Court without further
instruction, against all persons so neglecting these
regulations as to commit a nuisance. These
measures, which were energetically carried out by
the Inspector, were so far successful, that by the
2nd of June, almost the whole of the material
removed from the basin had been conveyed to a
safe distance.
After the cleansing of the basin the water
remained for some time in a good state; but it was
evident that so long as the bargemen and labourers
on the manure wharves were allowed to continue
their present practices, the improvement would be
only temporary. With this view the Sanitary
Committee resolved on the 16th of June, again to
call the attention of the Directors to the nuisance
arising from the falling of offensive matters into
the basin, and to the fact that ere long the expense
and trouble so recently incurred in cleansing it,