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(3) The methods employed for ensuring that the belongings
of tenants are free from vermin before removal to Council
houses:—Bedding is removed to the Council's Disinfecting
Station and placed in the Steam Disinfector, and where
necessary the rooms and contents are sprayed with the
vermicine.
(4) Whether the work of disinfestation is carried out by the
Local Authority or by a contractor:—The whole of the
work is done by the Local Authority.
(5) The measures taken by way of supervision or education
of tenants to prevent infestation or re-infestation after
cleansing:—As far as possible the Inspectors instruct the
tenants in the methods employed to prevent infestation
and vermin fluid is placed at the disposal of tenants for
their use.
Offensive Trades.—No offensive trade scheduled by the
London County Council can be carried on in any Metropolitan
Borough without first obtaining the sanction of the local Council.
Early in the year an application was received from a firm
seeking to establish the business of an animal charcoal manufacturer.
In accordance with the provisions of Sub-Section (3) of
Section 140 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, public notice
was given of the receipt of the application, and various objectors
to the making of the Order were interviewed. The chief objections
were against the practice of landing from the River Thames of
animal bones which during the process of manufacture it was
alleged caused a nuisance from the effluvia arising therefrom, and
it was also stated that grubs migrated from the premises in question.
After hearing the views of a representative of the Company,
and receiving the assurance that the latest type of retorts and
condensers had now been installed and that no bones would in
future be landed in Greenwich, the Council decided to grant a
temporary licence for a period of six months subject to the following
conditions:—
That subject to the installation of the retorts and condensers,
above referred to, being found to be effective, to
the bones being landed and treated elsewhere than in the
Borough of Greenwich, and to the nuisance from grubs
being eliminated, an Establishment Order be granted by
the Council, authorising the carrying on of the business