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Public Health.
without obtaining the Council's sanction to such establishment, but the case was dismissed and the
Council ordered to pay £5 5s. as costs.
The number of slaughterhouses, cowhouses and knackers yards licensed during the year was
254 slaughterhouses, 201 cowhouses, and 5 knackers' yards. An appeal against the decision of the
Committee not to grant a renewal of the licence in respect of a cowhouse was allowed. An application
for sanction to establish anew the business of a slaughterer of cattle at Bostall Farm, Abbey Wood,
was granted.
Ice cream.
Draft by-laws relating to the businesses of a vendor of tried fish, fish curer and rag
and bone dealer were submitted to the Local Government Board and the Secretary of State for the
Home Department for approval, and the observations of the Board thereon are now under consideration.
Part VIII. of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, requires (inter alia) every
ice-cream barrow to bear the name and address of the maker of the cream. An itinerant vendor of
ice-cream was summoned at the instance of the Greenwich Borough Council for neglecting to exhibit
his name and address on his barrow. The proceedings failed, as the evidence showed that the defendant
had removed the wheels from his barrow and was selling the commodity from a tub (part of the body
of the barrow), and the magistrate held that the defendant was not selling from a barrow. The
borough council, therefore, asked the Council to seek an amendment of the provisions of the Act so
that they should be made to apply to stalls. The Holborn and Battersea metropolitan borough
councils asked in addition that the provisions should be made to apply to all materials used in the
preparation of ice cream. The Council considered the suggested amendments desirable and decided
to seek authority to amend Part VIII. of the Act accordingly.
Powers and
duties of the
Council.
Mais Drainage.
The Council is charged by statute with the responsibility for the provision and maintenance of
an efficient main drainage system for the whole County of London. Its powers and duties in this respect
are derived mainly from the Metropolis Management Acts, 1855, 1858 and 1862, and under these Acts
the Council is specifically required to provide and maintain the necessary sewers and works for preventing
as far as may be practicable, the sewage of the Metropolis, collected by the local sewers, from passing,
into the river Thames within the county. The treatment and disposal of the crude sewage also
forms an important part of the Council's work. In addition to the County of London, several neigh-
Metropolittan
main drainage
area.
bouring districts make use of the London main drainage system ; the necessary powers to enable the
Council to receive and deal with the drainage of these out-county areas having been conferred by
Parliament from time to time. In every case in which the sewage is received and dealt with, each
out-county authority is required to make to the Council an annual payment, the amount of which
varies in the several districts. The districts concerned, and the statutes dealing with the disposal of
their drainage, are as follows :—
(i.) Hornsey, under the Hornsey Local Board Act, 1871, the Metropolitan Streets
Improvement Act, 1872, and the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1906.
(ii.) Tottenham under the Tottenham and Wood Green Sewerage Act, 1891, and
(iii.) Wood Green the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
(iv.) West Ham, under the West Ham Corporation Act, 1893.
(v.) East Ham (part of), uneler the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1897.
a(vi.) Willesden (part of) under the Willesden Sewerage Act, 1896.
(vii.) Acton, under the London County Council (Acton Sewage) Act, 1898, and the Acton
Sewage Act, 1905.
(viii.) Penge, under the Penge Scheme, 1900.
(ix.) Beckenham (part of), under the Beckenham Sewerage Act, 1873, and
(x.) Upper Norwood, under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1903.
Small parts of Ealing, Chiswick, and Mitcham also drain into the metropolitan system.
A joint application from the Urban District Councils of Edmonton, Enfield, Ley ton, Southgate
and Walthamstow, that the sewage of those districts may be received into the metropolitan main
drainage system, has been under consideration for some time, but there are so many important details
requiring to be settled, that it has not been possible up to the present to arrive at an agreement in the
matter.

Although, as stated above, the whole of the sewage of the County of London is dealt with by
the Council, power is reserved to the Council in the West Kent Main Sewerage Act, 1875, to connect
any of its sewers with the West Kent sewer, which passes through the southern portion of the metropolitan
boroughs of Lewisham and Woolwich. This power has not been exercised.
(a) Under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, the Council will, when certain works
authorised by the Act have been completed, receive into the metropolitan main drainage system the sewage from
the whole of the Willesden district.