GAS AND NUISANCE; OR, GAS WITHOUT IT, THAMES.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 1, 7 October 1871, Page 2

GAS AND NUISANCE; OR, GAS WITHOUT IT, THAMES.

To the Editor of the THAMES GUARDIAN. Sir, —The name chosen for your new journal (success to it) is a good one. I suppose it means guardian in general of the Thames people, and therefore would guard their health ns one part of its business. Well, according to report, it is the intention of a company to erect gas works $t the end qf Mary-slreet. A faw lines in your journal, therefore, may not be amiss, and may load to the prevention of such a nuisance in the midst of a large population. But can it be true that, after having got rid of that abominable nuisance the slaughterhouse, we are threatened with another equally as bad, if not worso? If these works are once erected, it will not ho so easy to get rid of them as it was that other nuisance, mark that! The public should take the matter in liand at once, for prevention in this case is better than cure. Do any of your readers remember Hagerstone Fields, near London, and the gas works of the Imperial and Independent Companies ? Do they remember the lines of streets that sur-" rounded those works, and the ominous wofds “To let" for ever in the windows of ' two-thirds' of the houses iii those streets? Do they remember, also, the painted doors and window frames of those houses completely blackened by the fumes of sulphur emulating from those works? If not, I do. We have nuisances enough at the Thames; wo certainly need none that shall become permanent right in cur midst. With tliesh works at at the end'of Mary-street, and the wind blowing from the west or south-west, by-the-bye, generally a snmmcr wind, the stench froiq such ivoiks pent up as it would be by tho hills at the back, would become intolerable, and tho health of tlio population never very good at that season of the year, must suffer seriously. Let the public, then, one and all, see to this matter, for surely a suitable site for such works may he found away from human habitation, on the other side of the Thames river.—l am, &c., W.