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to satisfy the County Court by a report of the Sanitary Authority,
or otherwise that his application is well founded, and for this purpose
is entitled to apply to the Sanitary Authority for a
certificate."
Thirty-six applications were made to your Authority during
the year, and in every instance a certificate was granted.
SCAVENGING.
The streets and yards are well scavenged.
While the regular removal of household refuse is performed in a
satisfactory manner, the same cannot be said with regard to the
mode of conveyance of the refuse through the streets. I am
informed that all the carts are provided with tarpaulins and that
the men are frequently cautioned against any failure to keep the
refuse covered as much as possible during the filling of the cart, and
completely so after the cart is filled and is on its way to the
destructor or rail; yet as one moves about the Borough it is the
exception rather than the rule to see a dust-cart reasonably well
covered during the operation of filling it, and very often it is not
covered at all when full.
Our old overfilled and uncovered dust-carts of Stoke
Nevvington are a nuisance and a bad object-lesson.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION), ACT, 1919.
In April, 1920, at the request of the Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries your two Sanitary Inspectors, Mr. D. W. Matthews
and Mr. A. P. Piggott, were appointed Officers under the above
Act. During 1924, 54 premises were freed from rats.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, AND WORK-PLACES.
The usual inspections of these premises were made during the
year, and they are maintained in a fairly satisfactory condition.
There are at present 69 out-workers who work for places of
business situated within the Borough, and 442 out-workers dwelling
in Stoke Newington working for businesses outside of the
Borough.