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vapor of hydrochloric acid hanging about the premises. The landl???
a row of houses near the factory, declares that the value of his pre???
is thereby diminished.
At the house, 54, Lower Queen Street, the drainage has not
done to the satisfaction of the officers. A summons was taka???
against the owner, who has promised to complete the work, as real???
within a fortnight.
Thirty-eight deaths were registered in April, the mortality???
rather under the average. For some months past hooping coug???
been the only zymotic disease prevalent in Rotherhithe, but d???
April two deaths occurred from scarlatina. The Parish is at p???
healthy.
Tours respectfully,
May, 1861. W. MURDOC???
SIXTY-FIFTH REPORT.
Gentlemen,
The case of the Queen on the prosecution of the Parish of R???
bithe v. Lipscombe, was tried at the Surrey Sessions on Tua???
21st May. After part of the evidence for the prosecution had ???
heard, the jury retired for a short space of time, during which the co???
for the prosecution and defence conferred together, and agreed t???
following terms, namely:—that the defendant should plead guilty;???
he should be allowed to continue shooting dust in the same locality???
at a greater distance from the dwelling houses until the expiration ???
contract on the 24th June 1861; that in six weeks from the above???
he should totally clear away all deposits; and that failing to fulfil an???
these conditions he should be brought up for judgment.
The case of tho Queen on the prosecution of the Parish of Rot???
hithe v. Salmon, has been transferred to the Court of Queen's B???
by a writ of Certiorari, issued by the defendant. The nuisance on???
premises continues unabated. On the 22nd May, about 11 p.m., I vis???
the place. Men could be seen at work under the arches, the stench
side was nauseous in the extreme, and on ascending to the pos???
ofiice of the signalman on the Greenwich line, a dense cloud of v???
hovering over Salmon's premises was distinctly visible. On the follo???
day I received a letter from an habitual passenger on the North ???
line, urging the Parish authorities to take steps for the abolition of???
the writer justly calls a dangerous evil.
The disagreeable effluvia proceeding from the premises of Mas???
Miller and Johnson, Manure Makers, Rotherhithe Street, are still o???
sionally complained of. A gas scrubber has been erected in this fac???