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During 1897, the Chief Sanitary Inspector reported
with reference to an offensive business which had been
carried on at certain premises in High Street, the nuisance being
the scraping and drying of skate skins. At the meeting of the
18th October, 1898, it had been found that, although the shop
had changed hands since the report in 1897, the business of
cleansing and drying fish skins had been recommenced, but the
occupier, upon being cautioned by the District Inspector as to
the nuisance arising from this business, and hearing that the
previous occupier of the premises had been threatened with
proceedings, discontinued the scraping, &c., of the fish skins.
On the 12th October it was found that the occupier was
again engaged in the business. Preliminary notice was therefore
served, and by direction of the Health Committee, statutory
notice was also served, since which time no further nuisance has
been discovered by the officers of the Health Department.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector drew attention to the fact that
it was a most offensive business, and in many respects resembled
gut scraping, and was undoubtedly one of those businesses which
should be conducted in properly constructed buildings and under
similar bye-laws to those which regulated the business of the gut
scraper.
1st November. At this meeting the Chief Sanitary Inspector
submitted report in accordance with the directions of the Committee,
relative to the disposal of goods entrusted to a firm of disinfectors
for the purpose of disinfecting after infectious disease, that he had
ascertained it was the practice of the firm to disinfect articles of
clothing, &c., which had been subjected to the various diseases
classed as notifiable under the Public Health (London) Act 1891;
and that after the disinfection was carried out, all goods were
returned to the houses from which they had been brought, except
in those cases where the instructions of the Sanitary Authority
were that the goods should be destroyed. In the latter case, this