The Arlington Advocate, 18 September 1885
| To the Honorable Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; |
| Respectfully represent unto your Honorable Board the undersigned, that they are inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, in the County of Middlesex, in said Commonwealth, and residents of that portion thereof known as the Winter Street District; that one Richard M. Johnson is occupying or using certain buildings and premises in said Arlington for the purpose of carrying on and exercizing the trade, occupation or business of collecting, storing in pits and vaults, carting, selling, delivering in various other ways, exposing on said premises on said Winter Street the articles commercially and commonly designated "night-soil;" that said trade, occupation or business is a noxious and offensive trade and occupation, is a nuisance, is hurtful to the inhabitants; is dangerous to the public health; that the exercize is attended by noisome and injurious odors, offensive smells and exhalations, and is otherwise hurtful and dangerous to the neighborhood. |
| That your petitioners have applied to the Board of Selectmen of said Town, acting as Board of Health, to prohibit said Johnson from the use of said premises for the exercize of said trade, occupation or business, and to cause said nuisance to be abated, removed and prevented. |
| That said Board of Selectmen have failed to effectually remove said nuisance and prevent the exercize of said trade on said premises. |
| Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that said Johnson may be prohibited from the further use of said premises for the exercize of said trade, occupation or business, and that said nuisance may be abated, removed and prevented. |
| —Petition signed by Wm. A. Fitzpatrick and 29 others |
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