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Public House Urinals.
Public house conveniences were visited and nuisances abated on the
service of written intimations.
Workshops, etc.
The workshops and workplaces—numbering 36—were regularly inspected
and their sanitary condition improved in many instances by limewashing,
better ventilation and paving, etc., in response to the intimations
and notices served.
Hairdressing and Shaving Booms.
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. 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.
Inspection of Schools.
The schools in my division (Poplar South) number eight, each of
which was inspected during the year.
In one instance only was it necessary to serve the authorities with a
written intimation. At this School (St. John's, Roserton Street) the
ranges of boys' and girls' and infants' w.c.'s, when automatically flushed,
over-flowed, saturating the floors, ete. The nuisance was abated on the
service of the written intimation.