Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District page 92

Poplar 1899

Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

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Table: Summary of Notices and Improvements carried out at the different Manufactories and Workshops in the Poplar and Bromley Parishes, for the year ended December,1899.

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Summary of Notices and Improvements carried out at the different Manufactories and Workshops in the Poplar and Bromley Parishes, for the year ended December,1899.

Nature of Nuisance.	Number of Notices served.	Cause of Nuisance.	How Remedied.
Smoke Nuisance	48	Burning of inferior fuel, and defective apparatus.	Better class of fuel used and in six cases smoke consumers have been fitted. In one case a prohibition order" was made by the Magistrate, and £2 4s. allowed as costs. In a second instance £10 penalty was inflicted with £3 3s. costs.
Tar Works	4	Defective condensing apparatus.	The condensers have been put into thorough repair.
Varnish Works	6	Vapours from varnish pots allowed to escape into the atmosphere.	Apparatus fixed for dealing with the vapours.
Cocoa Nut oil works	3	Nuisance caused by burning damaged cocoa nuts.	A summons was issued with the result that the Magistrate inflicted a fine of £10 and allowed £3 3s. costs. The material is now carted away to a rubbish shoot. In a second instance the summons was adjourned sine die, £4 4s. costs.
Defective sanitary arrangements	6	Drains defective.	Defects made good.
Fish Skin Drying	4	Nuisance caused by drying skate skins	Nuisance abated.
Insanitary Laundries	4	Defective drains and paving.	Defects made good.
Drying refuse	2	Nuisance caused by drying Argol refuse.	Kilns have been repaired.
Workrooms	4	Walls and ceilings dirty and dilapidated.	The workrooms have been thoroughly cleansed.
Sulphhate of Ammonia Works	2	Escape of Sulphuretted Hydrogen from condensor	The apparatus has been repaired.
India Rubber Works.	2	Nuisance caused by boiling damaged India rubber.	Means adopted for dealing with the vapours.