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certificate was unnecessary as the required work was satisfactorily
executed.
Other Scheduled Offensive Trades.—The Foreign Animals
Wharf being still in the occupation of the Military, the Offensive
Trades generally carried on therein have not yet been recommenced.
Smoke Nuisances. Seventeen observations have been made for
smoke nuisances during the year, but in no instance was it found
necessary to serve a Statutory Notice.
House Drainage.—Seventeen drains have been constructed,
233 drainage systems have been reconstructed or repaired; 410 such
systems have also been opened, cleansed and amended; 59 surface
drains have been constructed; 163 drains and soil pipes have been
ventilated, 321 systems have been tested by smoke, 437 by water,
of which number 172 were found to be defective; 47 new soil pipes
and 395 traps have been fixed, together with 54 intercepting
chambers and fresh.air inlets, and 100 other chambers.
Seventeen new covers to manholes have been provided. Thirty.
two systems have been sealed off or slurried up. Thirty forecourts,
26 areas, 118 yards, 4 mews and stables drained; 4 cesspools
abolished; 37 water.closets have been erected: 218 cleansed and
repaired; 45 w.c. doors repaired or provided; 4 w.c.s sealed off.
A pan, trap and water supply have been furnished throughout in
113 cases; pan and traps only furnished in 264 cases; pans only
in 24 cases, and other fittings provided or improved in 232 cases,
whilst the water supply has been renewed in 203 instances. The
water supply for lavatory purposes has been disconnected from
the drinking water system in 11 instances. Public.house urinals
have been cleansed and repaired in 9 instances; 4 urinals were
altered, 25 repaired or water laid on, and 1 constructed.
The vexed question of drain or combined drain or sewer is
coming much more prominently to notice in this Borough, and
w hereas in the past owners have been more easily persuadfed to
reconstruct as combined systems of drainage many systems which
had legally on technical grounds become sewers, now we find that
they are taking a much more prominent stand, and require this
Council to carry out their legal obligations in the mattfer, and in
this way much of the drainage reconstruction work is held up, and
at times have been temporarily abandoned.
Water Supply.—During the year 4 water supply certificates
have been granted under Section 48 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891. Defective water fittings have been remedied in 137
cases; 32 water supplies have been Reinstated where the supply
had been cut off; water fittings have been amended in 240 cases;