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Revenue Act, 1903
(and Section 35 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909).
During 1917, 31 certificates were applied for in connection
with tenements (or dwellings) so constructed as to afford suitable
separate accommodation for each of the families inhabiting the
same, with the following results:—
1. Certificates granted unconditionally 25*
2. Certificates granted conditionally 4†
3. Certficates refused 2‡
Effluvium Nuisances.
During 1917, 3 effluvium nuisances were dealt with, viz.: (1)
39-41, Dunbar Street, West Norwood, a factory used for preparation
of food for soldiers and sailors, vegetables (including
onions) being dried and packed; (2) Royal Arsenal Co-operative
Society's Bakery, Brixton Hill, a factory used for baking on a
wholesale scale for civilians (the premises being in occupation for
that purpose from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.), and for military authorities
(the premises being in occupation for that purpose from 8 p.m.
to 8 a.m.), and causing chiefly a nuisance from noise and vibration
of machinery ; and (3) 25, Broad Street, a factory in the occupation
of Corebind, Limited, of 5, Castle Street, Finsbury, the
corebind, which is used as an improvement in casting, being
made from liquid pine resin, which is evaporated in a vacuum
boiler, poured into shallow trays and then placed in a drying gas
oven to solidify, giving off effluvia at times during these processes,
and being afterwards ground up with other materials (the trade
secret) in a closed-in mixer or disintegrator. Petitions were
received by the Council in connection with Nos. (1) and (2), necessitating
action being taken under Section 21 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. A summons was taken out in regard
to No. (1), the nuisance being due to the onion oil (allyl sulphide)
escaping into the neighbourhood, was heard at Lambeth Police
Court on July 25th, 1917, and was adjourned sine die on August
22nd 1917, the nuisance being, meanwhile, abated by ceasing the
cutting up and drying of onions and the burning of the onion
refuse; but no legal action was taken in connection with No. (2),
the nuisance from noise and vibration not being one with which
the Council could deal, and the premises being also found to be
an exempted building (in the occupation of the military). The
nuisance in connection with No. (3) was abated.
* Granted unconditionally—144 144a, Denmark Hill, 17, Effra Road, 26-28,
Rosendale Road, 14-16, Victoria Road (West Norwood), and 53, Wilcox Road.
+ Granted conditionally—2.4, Cranmer Road.
‡ Refused—39, Tulse Hill