INJURIOUS MANUFACTORIES. l2£ 



he prevented, but we fhould infenfibly drive out of our cities 



the farriers, carpenters, joiners, brafiers, coopers, founders, Difagreeabte 



weavers, and all whofe occupation is more or lets difagreeable° cc "P atIon , s . 



, . ,. ^ r .,, i ■ n fanftioned by 



to their neighbours. For certainly the employments jufttimc. 



named are more unpleafant to live near than the manufactories 



mentioned above, and the only advantage they enjoy is that 



of ancient practice. This right of toleration has been efta- 



blifhed by time and neceffity ; let us not doubt therefore, but 



our manufactures, when grown older and better known, will 



peaceably enjoy the fame advantage in fociety; in the mean 



time we are of opinion, that the clafs ought to avail itfelf of 



this circumftance, to put them in a particular manner under 



the protection of government, and declare publicly, that the 



manufactures of acids, fal ammoniac, Pruffian blue, fugar of Manufactures 



lead, white lead, ftarch, beer, and leather, as well as flaugh- nea i t h. 



ter-houfes, are not injurious to the health of the vicinity, when 



they are properly conducted. 



We cannot fay as much for the fteeping of hemp, making Injurious rnan*- 

 catgut, layftalls, and in general eftablifliments where a large fdftures * 

 quantity of animal or vegetable matter is fubjected to humid 

 putrefaction. In all thefe cafes, befide the difagreeablefmell 

 they exhale, miafmata, more or lefs deleterious, are evolved. 



We muft add, that, though the manufactories of which we Manufactures 



have already fpoken, and which we have coniidered as not in- not ln J ll " ou$ 



J r require fome re* 



jurious to the health of the neighbourhood, ought not to beftrictions. 

 removed, yet adminiftration (hould be requefted to watch over 

 them ftrictly, and confult with well-informed perfons for pre- 

 ferring to the conductors the mod proper meafures for pre- 

 venting their fmoke and fmell from being diffufed in the vici- 

 nity. This end may be attained by improving the proceflfesof 

 the manufactures, raiting the outer walls, fo that the vapours 

 may not be diffufed among the neighbours; improving the 

 management of the fires, which may be done to l'uch a point, 

 that all the fmoke (ball be burnt in the fire-place, or depoiited 

 in the tunnels of long chimneys; and maintaining the utmoft 

 cleanlinefs in the manufactories, fo that nothing mall be left to 

 putrify in them, and all the refufe capable of fermentation be 

 loft in deep wells, and prevented from any way incommoding 

 the neighbours. 



We (hall obferve too, that when new manufactories of New raaaufac* 

 Pruffian blue, fal ammoniac, leather, ftarch, or any other ar- tones * 



Vol. XII.— October, K tide 



