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adjoining Destructor Works. The Bath has been well patronised
and bids fair to be most successful. It is proposed to
build a cottage adjoining the offices of the bath for the Superintendent
and his wife (both of whom teach swimming), and 27
additional dressing-boxes are in course of erection, also an
additional family dressing-box, an open drying shed, and cycle
accommodation. The ground on the north and cast sides of the
bath has been laid out as shrubberies, providing an elective
finish to the slopes.
House Refuse Collection.—The collection of house
refuse is under the control of this department, while the disposal
of the same at the Council's Destructor is under the control of
the Surveyor.
The refuse is collected weekly, and the number of vanloads
collected was 5,934, and the weight 7,646 tons 14 cwt.
Very few complaints of non-collection were received during
the year.
Collection of Fish Offal.—The fish offal from fish shops
is removed in air-tight receptacles twice or three times weekly,
by a Contractor who charges the fishmongers a certain sum per
week, according to the quantity of fish offal collected.
THE SOUTHGATE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
ACT, 1913.
This Act, which confers upon the Council various powers
" with respect to Street and Buildings in their District, and with
"respect to the Health Local Government, and Sanitation of the
" District," received the Royal Assent on the 15th day of August,
1913.
HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, &c., ACT, 1909.
During September, 1910, the Housing (Inspection of
District) Regulations, under Sec. 17, came Into operation, by