The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-16 00:00:00

COURTS OF CONSERVANCY.

Injurious Effects af the Glee Water.—On Saturday the
Dud Mayor, as Conversatur of the River l'itames, and of
the waters of the River Medway, held a return Cunrt of
Conservancy for the County of Surrey, at the Town-hall,
Southwark, for the purpose of receiving the report of the
Jury, sworn in at a former report upon the present state
of the river, particularly as related to the Gas Establish-
ments iii the Middlesex Districts.

Alter the formal business of the Court had been gone
through, the foreman of the Jury presented the report,
which was read by the officer. It stated, that pursuant
:to the directions given them on the Slat of July last, they
had examined the river both above and below the bridge,
and presented all well, excepting that part of the river by
Bankside, where they were surprised to tind that the
nuisance of the discharge of the gas water, from the Es-
tablishment of the Soutliwilik or South London Gas Light
Conspany,was as brides ever, notwithstanding that a letter
had been written by Mr. Mickley to their foreman on the
1I th of July last, declaring that the nuisance had been
abated. The Jury therefore again presented that dis-
charge As a nuisance.
Some bottles of the gas water were produced to the
Lord Mayor, who was requested only to smell it, as that
would be sufficient to prove its quality, without tasting it,
which they did not advise.
A Juror stated, that when they went below they pro-
clued a quantity of live fish, eels and flounders, which
they put in a vessel containing a quantity of fresh, and
added a proportion of gas water to them. 'Elie result was,
that all the eels died in less than four ' es and a half;
thr flounders died in a minute after they were put in it.
The Lord Mayor was fully aware as to the deleterious
3131111 C of the waste liquor, Rb it was called, which was
discharged from the works, and of the consequences upon
the river and upon the health of those who used the wa-
ter, if the nuisance was not pot a stop to. lie should
therefore order the City Solicitor to prosecute the parties
belonging to the establishment from which the nuisance
proceeded. He thanked the Jury for the diligence which
they had displayed in the public service.
The Conn was then dissolved.
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'ill; Load Mayor afterwards held a Court of Conser-
vancy at the Swan Inn, Westurinster-britige, for (the
County of Middlesex, to receive the return of the Jury
sworn in for that district.

The report made by the Jury presented several -
sances, which they found MI their way up the river but
principally, as a nuisance, the constant discharge of poi-
sonous matter from the Gas-works by the liurseferry,
Westminster; and corroborated more fully the report
made by the Surtcy Jury.
The Laid Mayor assured tkem also, that prosecutions
should be instituted against this company. He thanked
them fur thud services, and dissolved the Court.

On Tuesday last, a boy of Mr. Mark's, hatter, at
Rumford, coming home from school, swallowed some
fly-water, which he mistook fur sugar and water;
and, though assistance was immediately procured
him, the chill died on the following morning. The
water had been placed in the parlour window by his
mother till she answered somebody in the shop, and
during her temporary aLenee the fatal draught wa•
tatt.n.