Reports by the Medical Officer of Health on complaints of nuisance from the City of London Gas Company's works.

  • Simon, Sir John, 1816-1904.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Reports by the Medical Officer of Health on complaints of nuisance from the City of London Gas Company's works. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    are being greatly improved by the adoption of apparatus which promises to prevent this process from diffusing its offensive effluvia into the at- mosphere. I think it certain that these alterations, when completed, will do much to obviate the existing causes of complaint; but, pending their incomple- tion, it is impossible for me to speak with confidence of what further improvements may still remain ne- cessary,—especially as to that third evil of which I have spoken. It accordingly seems to me that, till the success of those ivorks in their completed form has been tested by sufficient experience, the present position of the City Gas Company before the law—the position of having confessed judgment in regard of the various nuisances imputed to them, must be fatal to their acquiring any further claim on the locality they occupy; and that, except on unequivocal testimony that the repetition of these nuisances has become impossible, your Hon. Court, as guardians of the public health against evils of this description, cannot do otherwise than protest against any act of legislation which may tend to perpetuate an offen- sive trade within the City.