View report page

199
GENERAL SANITATION AND
ADMINISTRATION.
The Canal and Canal Boats.—The Canal which is
situated within the Borough of Finsbury is owned by the Regent's
Canal and Docks Company, and consists of a waterway of about
5f acres, a portion of which has a through communication with the
River Thames on the one hand and the Midlands on the other.
The major portion of the cul de sac known as the " City Road
Basin," with wharves, warehouses, and factories on either side,
at which boats load and unload merchandise.
The Regent's Canal has two basins in this immediate neighbourhood. They lie parallel to each other, and are separated
only by the Wharf Road. The most westerly basin is the "City
Road Basin," and that on the easterly side of it, lying between
Wharf Road and Wenlock Road, is the " Wenlock Basin." It
is situated in the Borough of Shoreditch, and is the smaller of
the two.
The City Road Basin, in the Borough of Finsbury, has on its
west side premises fronting on Macclesfield Street and Graham
Street, and occupied by various firms as factories, warehouses, and
wharves. There are also a few residential 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 106, as against 116 last year. Twenty of these
106 were offensive cargo boats. Thirty-five infringements of the
Acts were found, requiring 21 complaint notices to the persons