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(4) For the purposes of this section the Council may institute any
proceedings and do any action as if, within the meaning of the Act of
1891, the Council were a sanitary authority and the county were their
district.
Under Section 22 the Council suggest they should be allowed to spend a
sum not exceeding 500/. per annum "in investigating and advancing
"measures with respect to smoke consumption and the abatement of nuisance
"arising from smoke."
It is doubtless praiseworthy to encourage any invention conducent to the
well being and comfort of the community, but it may be open to question
whether this should be done at the expense of the London ratepayers. The
question of smoke nuisance is not a local one, and it would therefore be better
if experimental work of the kind indicated should be both carried out and
paid for by the State.
HYGIENE OF HAIRDRESSERS' AND BARBERS' SHOPS.
The Hairdressers' establishments throughout the City remain under the
constant supervision of your officers, and there are now 32 proprietors of
these places who hold certificates that they have undertaken to comply with
the Regulations of the Corporation for the conduct of their business.
Two new firms have been placed on the Register, one saloon has been
closed, one certificate was withdrawn on account of failure to comply with
the Regulations, and in two cases there was change of ownership.
The following establishments are now on the Register:—
Morris Alper, 2, St. Andrew's Hill.
Jacob Arbeiter, 9, Duke Street.
The Army and Navy Toilet Club, 35, Bucklersbury.
Chester and Co., 42, Old Broad Street.
Civil Service Supply Association, 136-140, Queen Victoria Street.
William Clarke, 5, Birchin Lane.
Samuel Cohen, 120, Newgate Street.
Fox's Paragon Toilet Club, 60, Fore Street.
Frederick Gr. Foerstel, 1, Telegraph Street.
Ditto 112a, Queen Victoria Street.
Franz Friedel, 35, Moorgate Street.
Antoine Heifer, 6, King Street, Cheapside.
Carl Hartmann, 5, Queen's Head Passage, Newgate Street.
Frederick Heitman, 13, Pilgrim Street.