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only, and application for the renewal of such registration shall be
made to the Council on or previous to the fifteenth day of May in
each year.
Application for the renewal of both was made last year and
granted.
OFFENSIVE TRADES.
Three offensive trades were registered. One application was
received during the year and granted. The premises are situated on
the canal bank near WiUesden Junction, and are utilized for the
manufacture of a chemical fertilizer. Owing to accidents to the
machinery, complaints were received as to a nuisance, but recently
no cause for complaint has arisen.
The other two offensive trades are carried on in South Acton,
and were established before 1875. The premises are used for the
purpose of fat extraction, and their construction leaves much to be
desired. Notices have been served upon the occupiers, and proceedings
are pending.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The disposal of the sewage of the district is in a transition stage,
and the works authorised in the Acton Sewage Act of 1905 are in
hand. The development of the district rendered it absolutely necessary
that arrangements should be made to deal with the increasing
volume of sewage, as the treatment which it undergoes at present cannot
be deemed adequate or efficient.
Prior to 1855, the sewage of the district emptied untreated into
the Thames, the rain water falling upon a small margin of the district
along the western boundary drained into the Sutton Lane
watercourse, which conveyed it through Chiswick into the Thames.
Most of the houses existing in Acton in 1855 drained into the Stamfcrd
Brook, which coursed through Acton, Fulham and Hammersmith
and emptied into the Thames at the latter place. Under the
Metropolitan Management Act of 1855, the Stamford Brook sewer,
together with other sewers, was vested in the Metropolitan Board
of Works. The latter body diverted the Stamford Brook from the
Thames and connected it with the sewers of the Metropolitan Main