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ulphate of iron. The apparatus was tried before me, and certainly
???ery little smell arose during the operation, but I cannot commit
???nyself so far as to say that none will arise therefrom. The place is
indoubtedly much improved.
The occupier of the Arches 512, 513, 514, was also summoned,
and on Friday, 3rd June, the magistrate issued an order that the whole
accumulation of sugar-scum under the above-named arches should be
removed in two months. This length of time was granted on account
of the quantity of accumulated stuff being upwards of a thousand tons.
The occupier has promised to use deodorizers while removing it.
Under the arch 569, I found a person boiling linseed oil in two
open pots. The stench was nauseating. A notice was served, and
It a promise obtained that this process shall not be renewed. Oil
boiling is practised to a great extent in the fields round about the
Railway Arches, but as it is done principally at night, the persons
occasioning the nuisance have not yet been discovered.
In the Arch 480, a large accumulation of wet scutch or refuse
from the glue-makers was detected by the smell and the swarms of
flies hovering about the place. A notice has been served.
Considerable numbers of wet skins are brought over from Bermondsey
into Rotherhithe Parish, and laid under the Railway Arches
to dry. The smell from them in hot weather is extremely offensive.
The Inspector has been instructed to make enquiries as to the owners
of them, a fact not easily ascertained, as I suspect the arches are
often occupied by these persons without any rental being paid for them.
The state of Garden-row, Debenham-road, has been often brought
before this Vestry, the liquid sewage running in streams from the
closets down the gardens. One man was growing radishes in the
sewage from his own privy.
The practice of open mixing having occurred at Bull Head
Wharf, and fetid vapours having been evolved into the street, I
caused a notice to be served on the occupier of the premises. Since
the last monthly meeting of this Board, the Committee of Gas
supply inquiry has been twice called together. Star-corner, Bermondsey,
has been chosen as the most appropriate locality for
erecting a gas-testing apparatus, because, the mains of the three
Companies, namely, the Phoenix, the Surrey Consumers', and the
South Metropolitan, all converge towards that point. The proceedings
of the Committee will be duly laid before you in my monthly reports.
Sickness and Mortality.
The small-pox, from which no death had taken place in Rotherhithe
during eighteen months, has again made its appearance among