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Smoke Nuisances.—During 1903, observations, lasting in duration
from a half to one hour, to the number of 1,134 were made by the
smoke Inspector. Intimations and statutory notices were served in
52 cases, and 4 summonses were applied for during the year. The
following are the results :
Two summonses heard, fines and costs amounting to £7 4s.
being imposed; 1 case was adjourned sine die, and 1 dismissed with
£2 2s. costs against the Council.
Sec. 48 (2) Public Health (London) Act. Forty-two certificates of
proper and sufficient water supply under the above section of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, have been granted to the owners
of new or rebuilt houses. These certificates refer to 143 houses,
Byb-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings.—During 1903,
there were 135 houses let in lodgings inspected, 20 in the London
Fields District, and 135 in Hackney Wick. The chief defects noted
and remedied were dirty rooms, passages, yard paving and dust-bins,
CANAL BOATS ACTS, 1877-1894.
The Inspector to whom the inspection of canal boats passing
through this district is entrusted, and who, I may add, gives one day
a week to this work, reports that he made 75 visits during the year