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Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907
Section 86 of this Act, requiring dealers in marine stores
and scrap metal to be registered with the Local Authority, has
been adopted by the Council. Registered premises, of which
there are six. are visited from time to time and the records
which are required to be kept, inspected.
Swimming Pools,
There is no public swimming pool in the district.
There are practice pools at three local junior schools,
all have automatic dosing equipment and continuous filtration.
There is a swimming pool at one of the new hotels in the
district. Continuous filtration and automatic chlorination is
carried out.
Samples of water were taken regularly from ail these pools,
9 samples were unsatisfactory, but on subsequent samples these,
and all others, were of excellent bacteriological quality, show
ing that the arrangements for the purification of the water
were adequate.
Land Charges Act, 1925
During the year 1,818 applications for information from
persons proposing to acquire premises in the district were dealt
with. Each one required answers to questions about sanitary
notices or orders (outstanding or contemplated), Smoke Control
Orders, Certificates of Disrepair and Slum Clearance.
Licensing Act, 1961.
Seven applications for the issue or renewal of a licence
were investigated and all were found to be satisfactory.
Noise Abatement.
London Airport is by far the greatest source of noise in
the district; aircraft however are exempt from the provisions
of the Noise Abatement Act.
Twelve complaints of noise nuisance were received and
these were dealt with by informal methods.
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