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The City Road Basin, in the Borough of Finsbury, has on its
west side premises fronting on Macclesfield Street and Grraham
Street, and occupied by various firms as factories, warehouses,
and wharves. There are also a few residental premises.
There are three wharves at which boats load offensive cargo,
viz.: 22, Graham Street, 12, Macclesfield Street and 26, Wharf
Road. The first belongs to the Borough of Islington and the
other two to the Borough of Finsbury. The "offensive cargo"
consists of street sweepings and house refuse. It does not, of
course, include night soil, as occurs in rural districts in which
the water-carriage system of sewage removal is not adopted.
Canal Boats.—-The number of Canal Boats inspected
during the past year was 116. In these Boats 18 infringments
of the Acts were found, requiring 12 complaint notices to the
persons responsible. The Inspector under the Canal Boats
Act for the City Road Basin is the Sanitary Inspector for the
district of Finsbury in which it is situated.
In addition to the boats registered under the Canal Boats
Acts, there are a number of other boats or barges known as
"dumb" boats. These are boats which at one time were
registered, but from structural or other defects are now unfit for
habitation. Casual visits have been made to these boats in order
to ascertain if the men who work on them use the cabins for other
purposes than as store-places for ropes, chains, etc. These boats
carry general merchandise, and are worked by men who contract
to navigate them from the dock to the various wharves, and
vice versa.
Sailing barges, registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts,
occasionally bring cargoes of building materials, bricks, sand,
pipes, etc., from the Medway District. They are inspected by
the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London, except in
cases of infectious disease, when the Local Authority has certain
jurisdiction.