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[???]11 summons against Messrs. Miller and Johnson has been again
[???]Moped. At this factory a gas-scrubber has been constructed. How
[???]i)(fwill succeed in scrubbing the gases clean, is a question which
[???]undone can decide. Complaints are stiil occasionally made of
[???]dnells emanating from these premises. If the shaft were raised
[???]t-# feet, it strikes me forcibly that the gases escaping from the
[???]r tier would cease to be a nuisance to the neighbourhood.
[???]ill heap of gas refuse at Lavender Dock Wharf, has been en[???][???]i«ny passage down Berkley-street, a few days ago, my attention
[???]greeted to the dirty state of the street generally, to pools of
[???]i ant water covered with green slime, scattered here and there
[???]a large heap of dust and house refuse at the end of the street,
[???]»,aimay become a nuisance during the summer months.
[???]ill united Gas Enquiry Committees of St. Olave's and Rother[???]tamet
at the St. Olave's Board on the 12th ultimo, when the clerk
[???]>cd that the Churchwardens of St. John's Parish, consented to
[???]rJ vault under the Vestry Hall for the purpose required. It
[???]lereupon ordered that Mr. Hughes be requested to direct the
[???]i.^of the gas-testing apparatus therein, and when complete, that
[???]aling of the Committee be convened.
[???]aetter from the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company, dated the
[???]iitfebruary last, offering the use of a room and apparatus for
[???]Kg gas, in the south-eastern Arcade, at convenient times, was
[???]rihut the Committee having, previously to the date of that letter,
[???]niiheir own arrangements, the offer was declined.
9 works in the vault under St. John's Vestry Hall are now
[???]lufitted up, and will be shortly completed.
[???]i.i mortality in Rotherhithe, in common with many other
[???]tik)litan parishes, was large last month, sixty-one deaths having
[???](^gistered, of which four were from smallpox. I examined
[???]> at of the three dwellings where these four deaths occurred.
[???]e-Vuse, No. 1, Debenham's-row, where two children died, is a
[???]i fled place. The receptacles for water were shattered and filthy,
[???]tter-closet full to the brim, and the place had no drainage
[???]Kjler, so that, in wet weather, the yard is literally a swamp. It
[???]ilted by an Irish family, consisting of a labourer, his wife,[???]■fir surviving children. All the latter, besids the two deceased,
lien affected with the small pox, and one child at the breast
■11 suffering therefrom at the time of my visit.
VV, want of drainage, dirty water, accumulation of soil, and the
of all the comforts and conveniences of life, will not engender
[???]Ibx, which is the result of specific contagion or infection;
[???]here can be no doubt, that in this, as in all other zymotic
[???]i liidemical diseases, the worst cases are found in such abodes of