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business of selling animals as pets and as including the keeping of
animals in such premises with a view to their being sold in the
course of such business, whether by the keeper thereof or by any
other person. The term "animal" includes any form of vertebrate.
"Premises" includes any stall or barrow in a market but not any
stall elsewhere or any part of a street or public place.
Licences, renewable annually, are issued on payment of 10/and
are valid to the 31st December of each year.
At the end of the year two licences were in operation and 5
inspections were carried out by the Public Health Inspectors in
connection with the issuing of such licences.
Land Charges Act, 1925.—Under this Act, enquiries in
respect of properties in the Borough are received from time to time
by the Town Clerk concerning outstanding Notices served under
the Public Health, Housing and Rent Acts and whether such
properties are affected by any Smoke Control Area Orders, existent
or proposed.
During the year 1,136 reports on such enquiries were forwarded
to the Town Clerk's department.
Drainage and Sewerage.—During the year 586 drains were
tested, 411 were opened, cleansed or repaired and there were 1,153
constructions and re-constructions, alterations and improvements
effected. The former and latter figures show an increase of approximately
50% over those for the previous year.
Only two cesspools remain in use in the Borough and under the
Borough Engineer's direction these are emptied on request.
One hundred and thirty-two plans of drainage and other sanitary
works relating to existing and new buildings were examined
and approved.
Discharge of Trade Effluents into Sewers.—Under the provisions
of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1953,
the Borough Engineer's Department consulted with various public
bodies and carried out a site survey from which a list of 351
premises was compiled where trade effluents are discharged to the
public sewer. A further survey of premises has increased the number
of premises likely to discharge trade effluents to a total of 356. Of
these, 65 connections are directly to sewers under the control of the
London County Council and will be dealt with by that authority,
under the provisions of the Act.