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of building the difficulties surrounding this industry have
largely increased. The Authority has received so many
complaints that it becomes necessary to look for some means
of mitigating the trouble, namely, whether Pig Keeping
should or should not be considered an offensive trade under
the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907.
Offensive Trades.
There are not any.
Dust Disposal and Removal.
This is undertaken by the Engineer and Surveyor's
Department. The collection is made weekly, and the dust
removed in covered vans. Notices are served as required
to provide portable sanitary dust-bins in place of worn-out
or insanitary bins.
The refuse is chiefly taken to the Sewage Works and
deposited on the ground. The Engineer and Surveyor had
brought the matter of the provision of an up-to-date Dust
Destructor again before the Council, and preliminary
schemes and estimates have been obtained, and the Committee
have the matter in hand.
ambulance.
This District does not yet possess an Ambulence. But
satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Finchley
District Council for the hire of their conveyance.
Mortuary.
The Finchley District Council have an excellent Mortuary
a short distance from Friern Barnet s West boundary,
and arrangements have been made for its use.
Coronor’s Inquests.
The large room on the West side of the Council Offices
has been fitted up for Coroner's Inquests, and during the