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Fixing of w.c. Pans and Traps without Notice.
In Two cases where w.c. pans and traps were fixed without notice
being given under Clause 14 of the London County Council Bye-laws,
Section 39 (1) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the builders were
written to asking them to open the ground, otherwise legal proceedings
which had been authorised by the Committee, would be instituted against
them for infringing the bye-law. This mode of procedure prevents good
work being constructed on to defective work. Whenever drainage work
is found to have been done and covered up without inspection, if the
builder will not open the ground, the work is exposed by the Sanitary
Authority, and such a line of action ensures sound work.
Overcrowding.
Certificates were given under Section 4 (3) (c) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, respecting five cases of overcrowding, and the
Committee directed that the necessary notices should be served; 54 cases
of overcrowding were abated upon service of intimations, so that there
were in connection with private houses, 59 of overcrowding abated; no
cases of overcrowding were found in workshops (see Miss Tattersall's
report, page 252); 121 cases of overcrowding were also abated in connection
with houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than
one family (see Mr. Johnson's report, page 254). Legal proceedings were
not instituted in any instance.
General.
8,259 communications were received, and 873 complaints (including
54 smoke) as to nuisances were made. 5,024 communications were
despatched.
Condition of Highways.
The Borough Surveyor reported that the Highways on the whole
were in better condition than they were three years ago, although the
character of the traffic at the present time is more detrimental to the
roadways than was the case even so recently as the date on which the last
paving scheme was approved by the Council.
Overcrowding of Railway Carriages.
The attention of the Public Health and Housing Committee was
called to the dangerous and insanitary over-crowding, at certain hours,
of the District Railway trains running through the Borough between the
City and East Ham and Barking. The Committee was advised this