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streets is thus almost entirely blocked up, but also may, in wan[???]
weather, generate dangerous miasmata. A Committee of the Vestn[???]
who examined the spot, will, undoubtedly, report to the Board whi»[???]
they recommcnd to be done.
While passing along Rotherhithe-street, on Friday, 3rd curren[???]
I was vociferously accosted by a person, who had suffered injury tr[???]
his legs by the carelessness of the employes of Mr. Levy, Sack an[???]
Bag Merchant. A huge pair of scales was suspended by ropes froi i[???]
a piece of iron projecting from the upper part of the buildin;[???]
Several individuals of both sexes were employed in weighing lar|f,[???]
bundles of sacks. The edge of the scales projected at least a fo< f[???]
beyond the porch over the footway when the scales were at rest, bi[???]
considerably more when they were loaded and swinging. That sut[???]
a state of things is dangerous to the foot passengers is proved ] I[???]
the fact of the person who complained of having received an injur[???]
I therefore thought it my duty to bring the circumstance before t![???]
Vestry.
Fifty-seven persons died last month in Rotherhithe, the death[???]
from scarlatina, winch in December were fourteen, fell last month[???]
five. Several cases of mild smallpox occurred in the Lower Distrii[???]
but no death from that cause was registered.
Yours respectfully,
February, I860. W. MURDOCH.
FIFTIETH REPORT.
Gentlemen,
A complaint having been made at the office, to the effect that t[???]
roasting of coffee and chicory, at Mr. Simpson's, grocer, 27, Roth[???]
hithe-wall, is a nuisance. I proceeded thither on two occasions 1[???]
month, to examine the premises and witness the whole proce[???].
The shop of Mr. Simpson is fifty feet in length, and extends fr-[???]
the north side of Rotherhithe-street to the river. At its furt[???]
extremity, close to the Thames, a small compartment has been p[???]
titioned off, and in that compartment is fitted up the usual apj[???]
ratus for roasting coffee and chicory, namely, an oven and a revolvir[???]
hollow cylinder.
During the operation of roasting, which lasts from half to tlrr-[???]
quarters of an hour, the smell is rather pleasant than otherwise; I[???]
contents of the cylinder are then withdrawn from the fire, and;[???]
they be coffee, they are shaken about in a large sieve to cool, bun[???]
chicory, they are merely scattered on the floor. At the moment J[???]