Excerpt from Report on the Gas Nuisance in New York, 1870 The premises hereinafter named having been, and being in the opinion of said Board, and in fact, in a condition and in effect dangerous to life and health; and said Board hav ing taken and filed among its records what it regards as being, and what is sufficient proof to authorize its declaration, that the same is a public nuisance, and dangerous to life and health; said Board does hereby enter the same on its records as a nuisance, and makes, in respect thereto, the following order, to wit: Ordered, That the business of manufacturing (conducted by the Metropolitan Gas Com pany), at Foot of West Forty-second Street, be discontinued, except it be conducted by a process of manufacture that will not allow any deleterious gases or odors detrimental to health to escape into external air, and directs this order to be served as said law requires, and that, in case this order is not executed by the proper persons, the same be executed by the Board of Metropolitan Police; but that its execution be not commenced by the said Board of Metropolitan Police until the further order of this Board, of which further order no notice will be given to the parties interested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.