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FIFTY-FIRST REPORT.
Gentlemen,
No nuisances in Rotherhithe have been more complained of t[???]
those existing under the Railway Arches, and none have recti [???]
more attention from the Sanitary Officers. Notices have been ser[???]
summonses issued, and fines inflicted by the Magistrates, and[???]
nuisances for a time have appeared abated, always, however, to[???]
again; in a w ord, the results obtained have not been at all pro[???]
tionate to the trouble taken. Nor will a total extinction of tl[???]
nuisances ever be effected, unless the various Railway Compa[???]
cordially co-operate with the Parish authorities for their suppress*[???]
and let it be remarked, that it is the interest of the Companies, qvit
as much as that of the Parishioners, to do away with the evil,
the greater part of the complainants about the stenches at the 0
mercial Dock Station have not been inhabitants of this Parish,
gentlemen in the habit of travelling to and fro on the diffei[???]
Railways, here united into one great trunk.
At the point where the Brighton Railway diverges from the ot
lines, a patent manure maker occupies ten arches of the fori[???]
The nuisance arising from his business are of two kinds. The f.[???]
emanates from the mere accumulations of putrescent masse?[???]
animal matter, such as scutch, hair, fish, &c. The second procc[???]
from the process of mixing these divers ingredients and others, a:[???]
as bones and coprolite, with sulphuric acid to make the man[???]
On the addition of the acid, a heavy, pungent, suffocative vapou[???]
immediately given off, which may be smelt at a considerable >i[???]
tance from the place where the mixture is made. The occupier![???]
the above-mentioned arches was summoned in April, 1859, u[???]
fined, he was again summoned last month, and the case having li[???]
heard on the 16th of March, the Magistrate gave him two day[???]
abate the nuisance. 1 visited the arches on the 19th, at nc[???]
The heaps of fish and scutch had been covered with sulphate of 1
and animal charcoal, and the stench was somewhat mitigated, t
mixing was then going on.
I re-visited the factory on the 26th March at seven in the mom[???]
, During the week, a rough apparatus had been erected, and the l[???]
were mixing on my arrival. The gases escaped freely from the ?[???]
of the apparatus, and the accumulations of putrefying animal mat[???]
smelt as foully as ever. I did not consider the nuisance abated.[???]
On the premises of Messrs. Brown and Co., Globe-stairs, pni[???]
manure makers, mixing takes place in open vessels. On the 2[???]
March, a filthy stench exhaled from this factory, pervaded Rot![???]
hithe-street as far as Lavender-lane. A notice wras served a few c[???]
after.