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It is suggested that the oils retained in petroleum interceptors
should be baled up and put into a barrel for return to
the oil refiners. A convenient method to adopt for separating
the oils from the water, with which they are unavoidably mixed
in the trap, is to pour the oils scooped up out of the interceptor
into a fairly large barrel standing on end, and fitted with two
taps, one near the bottom of the barrel, and the other about a
quarter of the way up. After sufficient time has been allowed
for settlement, the water may be run off from the lower tap and
the oils drawn from the higher one.
I am directed to ask you to give this matter your serious
attention, and to urge you to give such instructions and to make
such arrangements as will prevent the escape from your premises
into drains or sewers of matter or liquid of a dangerous nature.
By section 10 of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1894, any person convicted of discharging petrol
into public sewers is liable to be fined £20, with an additional
fine of ,£5 for every day on which the offence continues.
I am
Yours faithfully,
James Wilson.
Town Clerk.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
To speak perfectly candidly these have not received the
amount of supervision during 1908 they should have had.
The late Inspector Phillips, whose duty it was to inspect
workshops used by males and male outworkers' premises, was so
over-burdened with other duties that it was not possible for him
to do more than he actually did. Much the same remark
applies to your two lady Sanitary Inspectors—indeed it was
necessary early in the year to appoint a temporary assistant to
help them in their work. The work of the department has now
been reorganized in such a manner, that the workrecently
done by Inspector Phillips under this heading, can
well be carried out in a proper manner by the four district
Inspectors. In the case of the work done under this heading
by Miss Baker and Miss Johnson, it has again, after an interval
of less than a year, been found necessary to appoint a temporary
assistant. It will probably be found necessary—in my opinion
it is necessary now—to make this appointment a permanent one.
The work done in this connection may be readily gathered from
the reports of the three Inspectors concerned, and from the
tabular statement appended.