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INSPECTION OP NUISANCES.
During the year 11,960 inspections have been made by the District
and other Inspectors, and in 11,491 instances premises were re-inspected,
as compared with 11,927 inspections and 12,266 re-inspections in 1904.
PEAT MOSS LITTER.
The increasing use of peat moss litter, especially by jobmasters
owning a large number of horses, gives rise to a nuisance which was not
contemplated when the Orders governing the removal of manure were
made, and, even when these Orders are strictly obeyed, this manure
cannot be removed without setting up a very serious effluvium nuisance
which is felt within a considerable radius of the stables.
A simple remedy for this has been found by the adoption of an
arrangement by which an empty van is allowed to stand outside the
stables, into which the manure is deposited as it is taken from the stable,
and in which it can be removed without further disturbance.
Frequent complaints having been received of a nuisance of this
kind, caused by a jobmaster in Fairfax Mews, the Medical Officer of
Health visited the premises while the manure was in course of removal,
and had no hesitation in certifying it under Section 21 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, as a premises used for a trade or business
causing effluvium.
When the matter came before the Public Health Committee they
authorized proceedings to be taken, but before the day of hearing the
defendant gave an undertaking that there should be no further cause
of complaint, and undertook to pay the sum of £1 Is. as costs.
Since this date the remedy suggested above has been closely
observed and no further complaints have been received.
SANITARY CONDITION OF SCHOOLS.
NON-PROVIDED SCHOOLS.
"The London County Council on the 28th June, 1904, sanctioned
expenditure for making a survey of non-provided schools, which under
the Education Acts, 1902 and 1903, are maintainable by them."