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have found in some cases the person who pays the rates does not
collect the rent. Notices have been served on the person whose name
appeared on the Rate Book as paying the rates, and they have been
returned with a letter stating another person to be the owner, and
this individual has also repudiated his liabilities, and in the meantime
the nuisance remained unabated; hence the necessity of serving documents
on the premises addressed to "the owner," in order that the
tenant,—who would have to be subpoenaed in the event of legal proceedings,—may
give them to the person who collects the rent. It is
clear that the object of the PublicHealth (London) Act is to provide
for the summary remedy of nuisances.
INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
In my last annual report I gave the work carried out in the Board
and private Schools of the district; since that report all the Board
Schools have been inspected, as well as all the known private and
Sunday Schools. Drainage work of an extensive nature has been
carried out at the Upper North Street, Marner Street and Bromley
Hall Road Board Schools; work of a similar nature is being done at
the Oban Street, Alton Street, and St. Leonard's Road Board Schools.
Plans have been submitted for the re-drainage of Bromley High Street
Board School. Glaucus Street and Knapp Road Board Schools
have been inspected, the first-named school was found to be in good
order, and the last is to be re-drained and enlarged. New Board
Schools are to be erected in the Orchard House district, and then
the work at the 18 Board Schools in Poplar and Bromley will have
been completed. The Inspectors' reports will show the work executed
in the private and Sunday Schools.
INSPECTION OF FOOD, FISH, MEAT, &c., EXPOSED
FOR SALE
The meat, food, fruit and vegetable stalls have been constantly inspected.
In the month of November, together with the Inspectors,