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???ck fires, was landed and housed in the early part of the month
???Mr. Fisher's premises, Botherhithe-street. The process of
???ln-drying it was then attempted. A terrific stench arose
???erefrom, extending above a hundred yards around. I caused
???notice to be served late on the evening of Saturday, August
???th. The operation ceased at once. The kiln-drying of
???amaged grain is such a horrible nuisance that it ought not to
???e tolerated under any circumstances.
A case of aggravated English cholera occurred in Kenning'sbuildings,
Swan-lane, on the 10th of the elapsed month. The
child aged two years, daughter of a labourer, died in twelve
hours. The dwelling was carefully examined. It is well
trained, well supplied with water, and cleaner than the majority
of houses inhabited by the same class of persons. There is,
however, near it and in front of it, a street gulley, which the inhabitants
pointed out to me as being a nuisance. I beg to suggest
the propriety of trapping it, and two other gulleys in
Adam's-gardens, which are also much complained of. The
filthy ditch, east of Manor-lane, is flushed under the direction
of the Clerk of the Works, as often as the state of the tides will
allow.
Thirty-seven persons died in August. The mortality being
rather under the monthly average. I am happy to say that the
Parish of Rotherhithc was during last month, and still continues,
remarkably free from disease.
Yours respectfully,
September, 1858. W. MURDOCH.
THIRTY-THIRD REPORT.
Gentlemen,
Complaints arc being continually made of the foul effluvia
emanating from the Surrey Consumers' Gas Works. If any
parishioner would point out to me on the premises a source of
obnoxious smell not arising from the legitimate process of gasmaking,
it would be made known to this Board, and steps immediately
taken for the suppression of it. But I must again
repeat that gas-making cannot be carried on without stenches,
and that every gas work is necessarily a nuisance, and that the
people of Rotherhithe must have been strangely asleep to their
own comforts when they allowed such a nuisance to be established
permanently by Act of Parliament in this populous
Parish.
The damaged grain, housed on Mr. Fisher's premises, Rotherhithe-street,
and spoken of in my last Report, has again become