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Fifty-eight notices to make drains and provide water-closets, ash-pits, and water
supply, have been served in duplicate by order of the Vestry. In fifty cases the owners
have properly complied therewith, and eight are in progress or standing over.
Thirteen 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. These slaughterhouses were all
licensed by the Magistrates in October, 1862.
Five notices from cowkeepers, of their intention to apply to the special Sessions for
licenses for their cowhouses under the provisions of the "Metropolis Management
Amendment Act, 1862, were received by the Vestry, and the same having been inspected
and approved by the Medical Officer of Health, they also were all licensed by the
Magistrates in October, 1862.
The Vestry have had under their notice nuisances arising from the storing and
refining of Petroleum at the factories near Plough-bridge, and in the rear of the Noah's
Ark public house, Rotherhithe-street, and on application to the Metropolitan Board of
Works, it was found that the said premises were not licensed under the Petroleum Act.
The proprietor of the factory in the rear of the Noah's Ark public house was
summoned to the Greenwich Police Court for the nuisances arising from the large
quantity of Petroleum he had stored on the premises, also from the process of manufacture.
A Magistrate's order was obtained, and the proprietor having erected additional
apparatus, the nuisance has since been much lessened.
Financial.
The loan of £800, borrowed of the London and Westminster Bank at 5 per cent.,
and the loan of £500, borrowed by the late Commissioners of Pavements of Mrs. Arnold,
at 4½ per cent., still continue.
Charity Estates.
The Accounts of Messrs. Robert Stranack and Edmond George Dannell, the Churchwardens
for the year 1862—63, have been audited, and the following is a copy of the
Charities Account:
To Cash received from— £ s. d.
Stratford Estate 70 14 10
Plaistow Estate 25 0 6
Smith's Charity 40 19 0
Carried forward. £136 14 4