View report page

53 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1903, of
(a) Licensing of slaughterers of cattle or horses or of knackers to
use premises as a slaughterhouse or knacker's yard ; (b) Licensing
of persons to use premises for receiving or keeping horses for
slaughter or the carcases of dead horses.
Offensive Trades. —The consideration of and decision upon
applications for sanction to the establishment anew or enlargement
of certain offensive businesses or imposition, modification or removal
of conditions thereon.
Infant Life Protection.—The following powers conferred by
Part 1 of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by Part V of the
Children and Young Persons Act, 1932:—
(a) Reception of notices given by persons who undertake for
reward the nursing and maintenance in a dwelling of infants, and
the inspection of premises by infant protection visitors or other
persons appointed by the Council for that purpose.
(b) The fixing of the number of infants to be kept in a dwelling
in which any infant is kept for reward.
(c) Application to a Court or Justice for an order directing the
removal of an infant to a place of safety.
Disinfection.
Disinfection of bedding and clothing is carried out at the
disinfecting station in Peckham Park Road, by means of a Manlove
Alliott super-heated steam disinfecting machine and an Equifex
saturated steam disinfecting machine. Books, furs, leather goods,
etc., are disinfected in a formalin chamber. Infectious rooms are
sprayed with formalin solution, and verminous rooms are similarly
treated with an insecticide fluid after the walls have been stripped.
The following is a summary of work carried out by the disinfecting
staff during 1933.

B
17