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Hospital, and the experience of Portsmouth is
adverse to such propinquity. Other authorities are
endeavouring to get rid of similar works, and should
you sanction the establishment of one, you would
doubtless have further applications. This would
entail the appointment of a special Inspector to look
after the different works. Wherever these works
have been established the immediate neighbourhood
has greatly deteriorated. It should not be forgotten
that neighbouring Authorities are empowered under
the Public Health Act, 1875, to proceed against
such works for nuisance even when outside their own
districts. All the Medical Officers of Health who
have expressed an opinion on this question
recommend me to oppose the application.
I do not see any objection to soap-boiling and
candle-making, if carried out under proper regulations.
The works at Hampton and Staines are very
well arranged, but 110 tallow-melting was going on
at the time of either of my visits. Before coming to
a conclusion, I think it very desirable that you
should visit some of these works and judge for
yourselves.
The application was refused.
I have to congratulate you on the greatly
improved Building Bye Laws, and also on the
progress that is being made in revising other Bye
Laws, and in framing new ones for the regulation of
houses let in lodgings, which are greatly needed to
prevent overcrowding and to establish cleanliness
and healthy surroundings.
A superheated, or other steam disinfection apparatus
is greatly needed, and I think it would not only
repay the cost of erection by saving the heavy
expenses at present entailed by sending goods away,