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SMOKE NUISANCES.
Ten abatement notices under the Public Health (London)
Act, were served in respect of smoke nuisances, and three
offenders were prosecuted, fines and costs to the amount of
£3l 1s. being imposed.
HOUSE REFUSE.
The weekly service for the removal of house refuse has been
fairly regular, but some better system of dealing with the arrears
consequent upon public holidays should be devised, the complaints
respecting the delay in removal being always numerous after
these. It is also to be regretted that the local authority have not
provided for a more frequent removal of the refuse from flats, the
necessity for which I have frequently pressed upon them, as
owing to the limited open space in connection with these buildings,
an accumulation of over three or four days' refuse gives rise to a
serious nuisance. In fact, having regard to the importance of
prompt removal of house refuse, which, containing as it does, a condererable
quantity of vegetable matter, very speedily becomes most
offensive, the Council should, in my opinion, provide at least a
bi-weekly service.
DISPOSAL OF REFUSE.
This is now burnt at the Destructor erected by the Horsfall
Company at the Townmead Road Wharf. The working of this
has been most successful, and this method of disposal is much
more satisfactory than that of removal by barges, formerly practised.
SEWERS.
The sewers belonging to the local authority were always at
once thoroughly flushed, on complaints being made respecting
offensive smells from the surface ventilators, and ventilating shafts
were placed in all suitable places, when permission from the
owners of the houses could be obtained.
The flooding of the basements in the neighbourhood of Field
Road, owing to the inadequacy of the County Council's main
sewer, was again brought under the notice of the Council.