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Offensive Businesses.
No serious nuisances from offensive businesses arising within or
without the district have occurred during the past twelvemonth, though
the year previous was prolific of complaints respecting this description of
nuisance.
Verminous Booms.
68 verminous rooms have been cleansed under the provisions of the
London County Council General Powers Act.
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
The workshops and workplaces have been visited and found generally
satisfactory, and any nuisanc.es arising within these premises have been
abated on the service of intimation.
Homework.
The outworkers, who are all boot and shoe operatives, have been
visited twice during the year, and the premises of each examined for
nuisances and sanitary defects. The workrooms were mostly found in
a fair condition, and any defects in the premises were remedied by the
owner on a notice being served.
Milkshops and Cowsheds.
The milkshops and cowsheds have given no cause for complaint; the
cowsheds were limewhited and cleansed twice during the year, in
accordance with the provisions of the Dairy and Cowsheds orders, and
the milk vessels and measures of the various milk vendors were
satisfactory.
Ice Cream Makers and Vendors.
On visiting the ice cream makers and vendors during the season, the
London County Council (General Powers Act, 1902) was apparently
carefully complied with with one exception—an alien with crude ideas of
cleanliness, but these ideas were amended on the service of intimation
and notice, and the room where the ice cream was made and at the same
time used as a common kitchen by a number of itinerant vendors was
discontinued for cream making.
Food and Drugs Acts.
Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts fifty-one varied samples have