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Smoke Nuisances.
The number of complaints with reference to black smoke issuing
from the numerous factory chimney shafts in Millwall and Cubitt Town
have been considerably less during the past year. The nuisances
occurring were in most cases abated on the service of an intimation, and
when necessary followed by a statutory notice. In no instance was it
necessary to resort to legal proceedings. The smoke preventing
appliances attached to many of the furnaces, in conjunction with careful
stoking, as the result of previous proceedings, repeated visits and cautions
no doubt contributed to this result.
Workshops, etc.
The workshops and workplaces were regularly inspected—numbering
34—and their sanitary condition improved in many instances by limewashing,
better ventilation and paving, etc., in response to the intimations
and notices served.
Public Health Prosecution.
A summons was issued against the owner of 87, Stebondale Street,
Cubitt Town, for neglecting to comply with a notice to repair the yard
paving, roofs and sink wastepipe. On the 30th November, the date of
the hearing, the works having been satisfactorily completed, the summons
was withdrawn on the payment of £2 4s. costs by the owner.
Premis etwhere Food Stuffs are sold or prepared for sale.

The number of intimations and notices served and complied with,
viz., 45, show the amount of work, principally cleansing and limewashing,
which resulted from the above inspections.