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South Ealing Works have been taxed to their uttermost in recent
years and additions are at present being carried out by which the
works will be extended by six new cells.
Smoke Abatement.—There are few factories in the Borough
and therefore it is seldom that action is called for in abating nuisance
from smoke.
During the year representations were made regarding two
factories, one for emitting smoke and the other smoke and dust.
In the former case improvements in stoking were effected and in the
latter the factory was removed to another district.
The Town Council are at present, with the approval of the
Minister of Health, making a Byelaw under Section 2 of the Public
Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, by which the emission of
black smoke for a period of two minutes in the aggregate within
any continuous period of thirty minutes from any one chimney in
a building other than a private dwelling house shall be presumed
to be a nuisance. From the operation of this Byelaw it is proposed
to exclude glass works, which, on account of the gas-producer
plants used in connexion with the smelting process, are unable to
comply with such a Byelaw at all times.
Premises and Occupations which can be Controlled by
Byelaws and Regulations.—There are no common lodging
houses in the Borough and there are no Byelaws with respect to
houses let-in-lodgings.
There is only one class of offensive trade carried on in the
Borough, namely, fish-frying, which is conducted in 16 separate
premises. The trade of tallow melting was carried on in premises
in the Greenford Ward, but this trade has been discontinued.
Schools.—At least once a year the Sanitary Inspectors make
a routine visit to all public elementary and private schools and
inspect the sanitary conveniences and drainage and on their reports
steps are taken to have remedied any defects which have been
found.
In the control of non-notifiable infectious diseases the routine
weekly reports of the absentees furnished by the head-teachers at
the end of each week prove invaluable to the public health department.
They not only enable the Health Visitors to visit the homes
affected, but they give a general idea of the prevalence of these
diseases at any particular time.