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OFFENSIVE TRADES.
In 1926, one application for an Order sanctioning the establishment
anew of the business of a dresser of fur skins at the premises
31 and 32, Sidney Grove, was made to the London County Council.
Similar trades established in other London Boroughs were visited
and it was ascertained that subject to the usual legitimate safeguards
the trade could be conducted without causing a nuisance.
The Borough Council therefore offered no objection to the proposal;
at present there are the following offensive trades established in
Finsbury:—
Tripe Dresser Messrs. Henson, 137, Whitecross Street.
Fur Skin Dresser H. P. Millicent & Co., 8, Mallow Street.
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912.—Action
taken in Finsbury during 1926 under the above-mentioned regulations
is shown by the following table:—
Nature of
Sample.
No. of
samples
examined.
No. of samples
containing above
prescribed
limit of
preservative.
Cream
0
0
Milk
261
0
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops and workplaces on the register at
the end of 1926, was 2,493, compared with 2,423 at the end of 1925.
During the year under review, 161 entries were removed from the
register owing to the closing of premises, the conversion of workshops
into factories by the introduction of some form of mechanical
power, or to the removal of the occupiers to other places of business.
The number of workshops and workplaces newly registered
was 231. The factories on the register at the end of 1926, numbered
1,860, compared with 1,813 at the end of 1925.
The list included 14 tenement factories in which there were
separate occupiers carrying on different trades or processes and
supplied with mechanical power by the owners of the premises.