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Prosecutions.
There were seven prosecutions during the year.
Overcrowding.
Five complaints were received during the year that
houses wer overcrowded. These were all investigated,
and in the five instances overcrowding was found.
Notices were served in each of these cases, and were
complied with.
(6) Premises and Occupations which can be controlled by
Byelaws and Regulations.
Tents, Vans and Sheds.
There are a number of vans and sheds situated on
the Marshes at Abbey Wood which are permanently occupied
by persons carrying on the trade of hawkers. In
former years the numbers of these have been augmented
at various periods of the year by others, who are occupied
in fruit and hop-picking during the summer and
autumn. Complaints have been received from time to
time as to the insanitary conditions under which these
people exist, and steps have been takn to have them
corrected.
The water supply obtained from wells and pumps
was found to be impure an analysis, and ordered to be
closed., but the owners contested the matter, which was
brought into Court, where the necessary order was
granted.
During the past year these vans have been very frequently
visited. The effect of the rigorous inspection
carried out, and of the prosecutions in previous years, has
caused a material improvement in the mode life and the
surroundings of those people permanently located at this
place.
Factories, Offensive Trades.
The trades of this description at present carried on
in the District are those of Fish Frier, Fat Melter, Fat
Extractor, and the Manufacture of Manure from Fish and
Fish Offal.
The various premises at which these trades are carried
on have been periodically inspected during the year,
and have been found satisfactory on each occasion, so
that no notices of any kind whatever have been necessary.