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SIXTY-FOURTH REPORT.
???MEN,
At the recommendation of the Magistrates of the Greenwich Police
???an Indictment has been preferred at the Quarter Sessions,
???Mr. Salmon, Manure Maker, and a true bill was found by the
???Jury.
???Indictment was also preferred against Mr. Lipscomb, Dust
???tor for the Parish of Bermondsey. In this case too a true bill
???nd.
???large Dust Mound to the east of and opposite to Napier's Place,
??? Road, has been entirely removed; but another one has sprung
???ar to and nearly as large as the former, to the north of Napier's
???and within forty feet of it.
???e is also to the north-east of the same row of houses, and at a
??? distance from them, a smaller mound of House Refuse, formed
??? Contractor for the Parish of Rotherhithe. I must express upon
???eap the same opinions which on previous occasions I have re???ly
given to this Board, namely, that all such accumulations, from
???antity of animal and vegetable substances which they contain, are
??? of decomposition and putrefaction, nuisances, and injurious to
???, more particularly during the summer months, and I must urge
???cessity of taking steps for their removal.
???ile attempts are made by both the above-mentioned Contractors
???n the organic matters found among the ashes. In order perfectly
???sume them by fire, it would require as much fuel as the heaps are
???, cabbage stumps, turnip tops, dead animals, &c., being somewhat
???It to burn. These attempts rather increase the. nuisance than
???vise. The slow fires smoulder day and night, and are quite inadefor
the purpose for which they are intended. The columns of
???ng smoke arising from them are drifted by the wind to a consider???distance,
to the great annoyance of the neighbourhood. Persons
???iting the Plough Road complain of these effluvia.
the Union Chemical Works, the manufacture of Hydrochloric Acid
???ried on as formerly. The apparatus used is of the roughest kind,
???ot properly covered in. From leakage, from opening the pots to
???rge them, and from other causes, there is often an unpleasant