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[???]Mfpied by the fire-escape keeper, was chosen by unanimous con[???];(«as
the fittest place for the purpose. To obtain the use of that
[???]lio-e, the Churchwardens of Bermondsey were first applied to, then
[???]utVestry, then the Rector, and finally, it was found, that the right
[???]• -anting it was vested in the Board of Governors and Directors,
[???]/[application being made to them their answer was a refusal.
[???]hx months were thus frittered away in useless efforts to procure
. [???]citable place for carrying out the object of the joint Committee,
[???]in the 30tli January, 1860, a meeting of the members of that
[???]oinittee took place, when the following motion was made and
[???]uirnously voted by the gentlemen from Rotherhithe and Saint
[???]ie's, there being no member from Bermondsey present. " That
[???]idbrts having failed to meet the desire of the Parish of Bermond[???]n
provide a testing-house, to test the gas supplied by the various
[???]^anies, whose mains supply that Parish, the district of St.
[???]iiie, and the Parish of Rotherhithe, do unite and proceed to take
[???]rcures for the erection of a place for testing the gas supplied by
[???]eSurrey Consumers' Company." Mr. Slee, clerk of the St.
[???]lae District Board of Works, then mentioned that the vaults
[???]itr the Vestry Hall of St. John's, would be a suitable place for gas[???]#g;
those vaults were visited by all the members of the Com[???]ifee
present, and as they were found to be dry, dark, and not
It to vibration, it was resolved that application should be made
[???]■japer quarters for the use of those vaults as a place for erecting
[???]desting apparatus.
[???]l)w, the necessity for testing the gas, both chemically and as to
Acuminating power, has become more necessary than ever from
[???]tiuisance to which the whole district burning the Surrey Con[???]ors'
Company's gas were subjected for some time.
[???]fie atmosphere of the home of every person who used that gas
[???]iv;g become exceedingly offensive, from its having been sent out
[???]•J the Company's works in an unpurified state, and I am only
[???] tg the truth when I say, that discontent has long prevailed
[???]■ghout the district supplied by the Surrey Consumers' Com-
[???]Ias to the quantity and quality of the article which they sell to
[???]lblic.
[???]ilarge accumulation of refuse from the purifiers of some gas
[???]ufc, has been unceremoniously landed and thrown into a heap at
[???]nder Dock Wharf, exhaling a sulphury stench. The Inspector
[???]Usances and myself, have visited the place, and proper measures
[???] :ing adopted by the Officers of this Board for the suppression
[???]ct nuisance.
[???]|aps of rubbish and street-sweepings have been shot on the land
[???](ling Clarence-place. Such an accumulation is not only incon[???]iit
to the inhabitants, whose passage to and from the main