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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
"To remove the waste every day, leaving empty drums in place of
those filled. They propose to charge a minimum of one shilling
per week to the small fish shops and to the others a sum estimated
on what the shops have paid the Council, when calculated
at 4d. per drum." That is to say, they propose to make a fixed
weekly charge to each shop based upon what they have already
paid to the Council but with the minimum charge as above. They
prefer to collect the money direct from the fishmongers themselves.
I asked them, "Would you be prepared to give an undertaking to
this Council that the charges should not be increased over a
limited number of years and what guarantee would you give for
the fulfilment of such undertaking?" Their reply is, "We could
give an undertaking to do the work on these terms for some
definite time if the Council on their part would guarantee to give
us all the waste fish in your Borough." They are prepared to
give a guarantee for the fulfilment of this. Of course the Council
could not guarantee to give the whole of the waste as they have
no power to compel tradesmen to send their refuse to any particular
place , but the Council might undertake not to collect or employ
anyone else to collect same so long as the work was done satisfactorily
by the firm in question. This would probably be for the
time being the most efficient manner of dealing with it.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) H.J.MARTEN,
Surveyor.
The Courtcil have arranged to enter into a contract with the
firm mentioned in the Report of the Surveyor for the removal of
the offal to be taken away direct from the shops to the Manure
Manufacturers' premises at West Ham, the Contractor providing
the labour, horses, vans, and tins. This arrangement will relieve
the Council from all cost.
Houses-Let-in-Lodgings
The number of the above is 200 (31 in Clapham, 6 in Putney,
117 in Streatham, and 46 in Wandsworth).
360 inspections of these were made during the year and 192
notices were served for cleansing and for the abatement of
nuisances,