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I
Eeport on the Offensive Trades carried on on the
Canal Basin and Wharves.
In pursuance of a Resolution of the Sanitary and
Public Health Committee, at a Meeting on
the 5th November, 1868,* I had the honor
to report as follows :—
The Trades carried on on the Wharves of the Canal Basin,
which may be considered as offensive, or injurious to health, are
Dust Contractors—Mead & Co., Nos. 10, 11, 12 13.
„ „ Baldwin ,, 14, 18.
Slop j, Mead & Co. „ 5, 6.
„ „ Baldwin, „ 14, 18.
„ „ Curnock, 9, North Wharf Road.
Dung ,, Messenger, Morton, Curnock, Morgan
and Bunce, Iron Gate Wharf, and
Franklin at Amberley Wharf.
In consequence of Complaints and Petitions constant
inspection is required. Three distinct kinds of trade or
business require supervision :—
First—The collecting and transport of manure from horses
and cows kept in mews and stables, with which occasionally
butchers' offal, and greengrocers' vegetable garbage
are mixed, and more rarely, but certainly, at times human
odure. The nuisances mostly complained of from this
trade arise mainly from the offensive smells from the carts
passing and standing about and unloading at the Wharves,
or from undue detention of deposits on the Wharves or in
the boats after loading.
Second—A class of business, and one which is carried on on a
* " That the Medical Officer be requested to prepare and submit to this
Committee a Ileport on the question whether by any and what regulations or
means the Offensive Trades now carried on upon the Wharves on the Canal
Basin can be rendered substantially innocuous."