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Masons' Avenue. Nun Court, Coleman Street. St. James's Place, Garlick Hill.
Meeting House Court, Miles Oat Lane. Windsor Court, Monkwell
Lane. Pea Hen Court, Bishopsgate. Street.
Newnham Place, Bishopsgate. St. Alban's Court, Wood Street.
WEST DISTRICT.
Back Court, Cloth Fair. East Passage, Cloth Fair. Middlesex Passage, Bartholo-
Back Passage, Cloth Fair. Fleur-de-Lis Court, Carter mew Close.
Barley Mow Court, Cloth Fair. Lane. Montague;Court, Little Britain.
Bartholomew Place, Bartholo- Fleur-de-Lis Court, Fetter Nevill's Court, Fetter Lane.
mew Close. Lane. New Court, Cloth Fair.
Boar's Head Court, Fleet George Yard, Whitefriars. Paul's Bakehouse Court.
Street. Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane. Pleydell Court, Fleet Street.
Britton's Court, Whitefriars Half Moon Passage, Alders- Red Lion {Passage, Cloth Fair.
Street. gate Street. St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet
Cheshire Court, Fleet Street. Holborn Buildings, Holborn. Street.
Church Entry, Carter Lane. Johnson's Court, Fleet Street. Took's Court, Furnival Street.
Crown Court, Chancery Lane. King's Head Court, Shoe Lane. Wardrobe Terrace.
Crown Court, Whitefriars Little Montague Court, Little Wine Office Court, Fleet
Street. Britain. Street.
Dorset Court, Dorset Street.
SMOKE NUISANCES.
Smoke nuisances were reported at twelve premises during 1907. The
number of observations recorded amounted to 341, as against 595 noted at 19
premises in 1906.
The service of Notices upon offenders resulted in the abatement of the
nuisances in all cases, and therefore, there has been no occasion to take further
action in the matter.
No nuisance of smoke from Railway locomotion was reported during the
year.
It is gratifying to note that at a discussion on " the Smoke problem in large
towns" held at the Royal Sanitary Institute, on the 14th November, 1907, not
only were the reports and efforts for dealing with this evil, of the late Sir John
Simon, formerly Medical Officer of Health for the City, made 50 years ago,
commended, but similar suggestions for effecting improvements as those
mentioned in your Medical Officer's Annual Reports for 1903 and 1906 were
also entirely concurred in.
It was generally agreed that legislation was required for dealing with the
following points:—
(1) The substitution of some other term for the word " black" in
in Section 24 (b) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. At present