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Watering.
The Vestry have again contracted with Messrs. Brady for the supply of two
water carts, at £7 10s. each cart for the season. The horses and drivers being
provided by Mr. A. T. Hobman, also under contract.
Cleansing.
The Vestry have entered into a contract with Mr. A. T. Hobman for the
removal of dust, &c., from the dwellings of the inhabitants, and for cleansing the
paved streets (for particulars of Contract, see page 4.)
Removal of Nuisances' Proceedings, &c.
From the 25th of March, 1860, to the 25th of March, 1861, seventy-one
notices have been served in duplicate under the Nuisances' Removal Act, upon
complaints made by the Medical Officer and Inspector of Nuisances, twenty-five of
which have been effectually abated by proper drainage being made from the
respective houses into covered sewers, twenty-five have been abated by removal,
and twenty-one are in course of abatement, and standing over.
Eleven summonses have been issued, and Magistrates' orders obtained and
carried out.
Eleven notices to make drains and provide water-closets, ash-pits, and water
supply, have been served in duplicate by order of the Vestry. In eight cases the
owners have properly complied therewith, and three are still standing over.
Eleven notices of intention of butchers to apply to have their slaughterhouses
licensed in this Parish were received by the Vestry, which were severally inspected
and reported upon by the Medical Officer of Health (see Medical Officer's fiftyseventh
Report, October, 1860). These slaughterhouses were all licensed by the
Magistrates in October, 1860.
In consequence of the numerous complaints constantly made, not only by
residents in the neighbourhood, but also by passengers along the several hues of
railway, of the great nuisance arising from the manufacture of patent manure
under the arches of the Brighton Railway, the Vestry have repeatedly summoned
Mr. J. Salmon, the proprietor of the works, to the Greenwich Police Court, under
the Nuisances Removal Act, upon two of which occasions he was fined, but the
nuisance continuing unabated, they, acting upon the advice of the Magistrates,
preferred an indictment against Mr. Salmon at the last Easter General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace for the County of Surrey; previous, however, to the hearing
thereof, a Writ of Certiorari was obtained by Mr. Salmon, transferring the
indictment to the Court of Queen's Bench, and it will be tried at the next Assizes
for the County of Surrey.