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a cause of annoyance to the inhabitants. The process of turning
it and sifting it having been attempted, a fearful stench per
vaded, for several days, the piece of ground lying between the
School of Industry and the Ragged School. Teachers and
children were affected thereby, some of the latter went home ill
It is difficult to conceive any application or education of the
mind to be possible amidst the bodily discomforts produced by
these effluvia. A notice was served, and should a renewal of the
nuisance take place, the employment of more stringent measure
naturally suggests itself.
The Railway Arches have been carefully examined. Thirteen
of them have been occupied for some years by an oilcloth maker
who has erected on the spot a proper apparatus for boilin???
linseed oil and the combustion of its vapour during the process
I have never found any interference necessary. No pigs are
kept under the arches, nor is any pigs' food boiled there. The
piggery so often alluded to in my previous Reports, is not under
the Railway Arches, but stands on a piece of ground completely
detached from them. The piggery has been recently visited by
a Committee of this Board. As, however, the proprietor has
taken to boiling fat, and the smoke on the day of my inspection
smelt offensively, a notice was served on him. Another notice
was also served on a person who has accumulated stores of de???
composing animal and vegetable matter under the arches of the
Brighton Railway, at its point of divergence from the Grcenwich
line.
All the slaughterhouses have been visited personally by me
and I beg again to recommend them favourably.
The ditch in Swan-lane, notwithstanding all the care be
stowed upon it, is a great nuisance, particularly at the point
where the open joins the closed sewer. Horrid stenches rise from
that archway. Let us hope that ere long all open ditches will
disappear from this parish, as well as those barbarous remnant???
of the dark ages, namely, the Black-ditch, the Millpond, and the
King's-mills' stream.
The houses mentioned in the Agenda Paper are in want of
proper drainage.
Forty-one deaths were registered in September, and although
the number of individuals actually sick has not during the
month exceeded the average, yet all the zymotic diseases have
been more or less prevalent or fatal. Thus, there were five deaths
from scarlatina, one from measles, one from hooping-cough, one
from small-pox, three from diarrhoea, and four from fever, two
of which were registered as typhus. The houses in which these
latter occurred were carefully examined soon after. One of the
houses, No. 11, York-street, was clean and in good order, but in