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In three instances, proceedings were instituted by the borough councils in respect of breaches
of the bye-laws regulating offensive trades, viz., two in Deptford, the proceedings being instituted
against a firm of bone boilers and two in Wandsworth against the same firm as in Deptford in respect
of effluvium nuisance from their premises in that district. Convictions were obtained in each
instance. Proceedings were unsuccessfully instituted in Bermondsey against a firm of fat melters, for
enlargement of their premises without the consent of the London County Council. In each of these
cases the County Council's inspectors attended the hearing to give evidence in support of the prosecution.
Other effluvium nuisances mentioned in the annual reports are—occasional nuisance in Kensington
from gas works in Kensal-green; nuisance in Westminster from benzine and ammonium sulphide
arising from motor tyre works, from benzine in connection with cork-hat making, from a fried fish
business leading to impregnation of uniforms, made on the upper floor, with the smell of the fried
fish. In this case a judge's order was made requiring the nuisance to be abated and the business was
discontinued. Other nuisances were: nuisance from brick burning in Hammersmith; nuisance in
Chelsea from deposit of unconsumed cinder ash from the works of an electricity supply company
and from the chimneys of the workhouse and laundry; nuisance in Lambeth from the making of
bookbinder's glue and builder's size ; " in both processes glue is first soaked in tanks or tubs and
then melted in cylinders, mixed with sugar, alum, etc." ; also in Lambeth, nuisance from a provision
merchants, a laundry, a dust destructor, and a pickle factory.
The subject of nuisance from fried-fish shops, fish-curers' and marine store dealers' premises
and suggestions for the regulation of these businesses are discussed in a report which is appended. (See
Appendix III.)
Nuisances.
Smoke Nuisance.
The annual reports show efforts by London sanitary authorities to deal with smoke nuisances.
These efforts are supplemented by those of the Public Control Department which, during the year
ending 31st March, 1906, forwarded 554 reports of smoke nuisance to the metropolitan borough
councils, with the result that 315 statutory notices were served and legal proceedings were instituted
in 49 cases and conviction obtained in 47 cases, nenalties including costs being obtained amounting
to £219 16s.

Nuisance from stable manure.
The increasing use of motor vehicles is having effect in leading to decrease in the number of horses
in London. Dr. McCleary states that one large stable in Battersea, where some hundreds of horses were
kept, is now used as a garage for motor omnibuses, and Dr. Caldwell Smith states that a large number
of horses in Wandsworth have been disposed of and that one of the largest stables has been converted into
a car shed. The result is that less manure is produced than formerly, and in one direction the problem
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