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Common Lodging Houses and Seamen's Lodging Houses.
None exists in the Borough.
Businesses of Rag and Bone Dealers.
There is only one premises in the Borough where the business of
a dealer in Rags, etc., is carried on.
Legal proceedings were ordered to be instituted by the Council
upon information supplied by the Police, against a rag and bone dealer
for distributing toys in exchange for bundles of rags, contrary to
bye-laws made by the London County Council under their General
Powers) Act of 1908. Unfortunately the dealer could not be traced
and the summons could not be served.
One of the Sanitary Inspectors found another dealer engaged in
a similar practice, and in view of the circumstances of this case the
vendor was cautioned.
Offensive Trades.
No offensive trade is carried on in the Borough.
Removal of Offensive Matter.
As the result of a complaint, observation was kept on the removal
of offal tins from the rear of premises occupied by a fishmonger. At
8.10 p.m. a motor lorry drew up and removed four metal bins containing
fish offal from the premises and placed them without lids or
other covering on a lorry. The Sanitary Inspector examined the
receptacles on the lorry before it was driven away and found it contained
four uncovered receptacles full of fish offal, and one full of
fish offal but properly covered with a metal cover, and a number of
empty receptacles without covers. There was a very offensive smell
from the lorry. The men in charge declined to give the Inspector the
name of the owner of the lorry, saying they had no time to stop. The
Inspector made enquiries at another fish shop from which offal had
been removed and ascertained from whence the lorry came. The
firm had previously been summoned and convicted at the Hampstead
Petty Sessions for a similar offence.
A summons was accordingly issued against the firm for a breach
of the London County Council Byelaws which require that offensive