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Hairdressing and Shaving Rooms.
The hair cutting and shaving rooms (20 in all) were inspected and
dealt with where necessary.
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
35—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 (London) Act, 1891.
During the year no summons was issued under the Public Health
Act. The whole of the work executed and nuisances abated were carried
out in response to either verbal or written intimations, or on the service
of duly authorized statutory notices. In several instances a warning
letter from yourself had averted legal proceedings.
Premises where Food Stuffs are sold or prepared for sale.
Periodical inspections were made of the following premises, and
notices served as under:—
Intimations and
Notices served.
Bakehouses 10 13
Cowhouses 1 2
Slaughter-houses 2 2
Tripe dressers and sausage makers 10 2
Dairies and milk shops 31 1
Ice Cream vendors 27 13
Coffee shops and dining rooms 37 22
Fish shops 11 2