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staff in 4,673 properties the charges for servicing business premises amounting to
£3,860, Business premises under regular servicing contract with the Council numbered
177 at the end of the year.
Statistics are given on page 114
The arrangement in the area for sewerage and sewage disposal are satisfactory.
The planned programme of reconstruction of defective sewers is proceeding.
Byelaws made under the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1956 by the
former Boroughs of Bethnal Green Poplar and Stepney for adequate artificial lighting
of common staircases in tenement houses and flats differed from each other in some
minor respects, but the major difference related to the hours during which the staircases
should be artificially lit. The Bethnal Green and Poplar Byelaws required stair
case lighting from half an hour before sunset until midnight and for one hour before
sunrise during months October to March inclusive, whereas the Stepney Council
byelaws required staircases in its area to be lit from half an hour before sunset
until sunrise throughout the year.
New byelaws drafted for the borough as a whole on the lines of the Stepney
byelaws were submitted to and confirmed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government,
and came into operation on 1st May 1970.
The water in the seven public swimming baths in the borough and in the bath at
the Council's Hornchurch Children's Home is sampled at monthly intervals by the
Scientific Department of the Greater London Council on this Council's behalf. A
total of 130 samples taken during the year proved satisfactory.
In addition 59 samples were taken from nine school swimming baths in the borough,
one sample being unsatisfactory.
Efforts to get sites cleared of rubbish and fenced continue to show good
results Of the 239 sites which came to notice during the year 148 were cleared
of rubbish and fenced by the end of the year,
SEWERAGE
ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING OF COMMON STAIRCASES - BYELAWS
SWIMMING BATHS
VACANT SITES