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"The first suggestion is to raise that part of the river bank
adjacent to the dwellings; or, if this is not practicable, to
construct some channel of relief to be used during the
times of flood; but the remedy is really an engineering
work, and properly, should be proposed by such an expert."
"As to who should undertake this work, I would suggest that the
Lea Drainage Commissioners, who have already done similar work
in other parts of the Lea, and apparently with good results, should
be re-appointed, under a new Act of Parliament, if necessary, to
carry out the work of preventing floods from the Lea in this district."
These remarks are as applicable now as in the year 1897. Some
measures should be adopted to prevent these disastrous floods.
Perhaps the newly constituted Lea Conservancy Board have power
to deal with this matter.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901.
In my last year's report I gave the total number of workshops on
the register. Recently I have had the register carefully revised, and
find that a large number of the workshops have ceased to be used as
workshops, and a few more have been added to the register. The
figures now available are fairly accurate.
Workshops.—The number of workshops registered in the Borough
in which articles of wearing apparel are manufactured is 623, and
where other articles are manufactured 290, a total of 913. The
following is a list of these two classes of workshops with the occupations
carried on therein:—