[Report 1859-1860].

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1860
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    Mr. Knight. These premises are used as an artificial Manure manufactory. There is a great accumulation of animal and other refuse, also a considerable amount of mixed manure, which must in progress of conversion have been productive of effluvia, calculated to be not only a nuisance but also damaging to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. I recommend that a notice be issued from the Vestry for prompt removal of the accumulation of manure, and also a caution to the proprietor to discontinue an acknowledged pernicious process. Complaint has also been made by Mr. Bisley, that manufactured Fish Manure from the premises of Messrs. Dorset and Co., has been deposited against houses in his occupation in Jamaica row; I have, accompanied by your Inspector, visited the place, and recommend a notice for its removal. I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, JOHN CHALLICE, M.D., Medical Officer. TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY. Jan. 2nd, 1860. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—In pursuance of the order of the Vestry at its last meeting, I have inspected the premises in the Rotherhithe New road, reported to the Board as objectionable inasmuch as bone boiling was believed to be carried on there to a considerable extent, although ostensibly used as a rope, mat and twine manufactory. I have on several former occasions had these premises brought under my notice, as objectionable in many respects. Since my first inspection, which was at the request of the Improvement Board, they are very materially improved. The process of bone boiling is doubtless at all times more or less offensive, according to the conditions surrounding it. Placing the maximum of offensive effluvia at 100°, which would
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