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Two maintenance treatments were carried out in May and November.
at approximately 1,012 manholes for each treatment.
HYGIENE IN BARBERS' SHOPS: PROPOSED
BY-LAWS
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee have
requested the London County Council, after considering the
suggestions made by this Council, to include in their next
General Powers Bill appropriate provision to enable Metropolitan
Borough Councils and the Corporation of London to
register hairdressers and barbers, and their premises, and to
make by-laws for the purpose of securing hygienic conditions.
Representatives of the Bermondsey and District Branch of
the National Hairdressers Federation have expressed agreement
with the views of the Council, and look forward to the adoption
of by-laws.
VENTILATION OF SEWERS
In March 1952, a Working Party of officers of the London
County Council and the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing
Joint Committee was set up to suggest means for improving
the ventilation of sewers and to report what additional Parliamentary
powers would be desirable to regulate the discharge
of trade effluents into the London sewers.
Provisions with regard to the discharge of trade effluents
into the sewers have been included in the London County
Council (General Powers) Act 1953.
The Working Party are of opinion that the provision of a
large number of small means of ventilation may be preferable
to large ventilating shafts and at the request of the Standing
Joint Committee the Council agreed to co-operate in an experiment
whereby stoppers on intercepting traps at the drains
of properties owned by Metropolitan Councils should be removed
for a trial period and the results studied.
The officers of the London County Council have been authorised
to take the necessary measures so far as London County
Council properties are concerned.