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During 1952, 149 licences to sell designated milk were
issued by the Council.
5. SLAUGHTERHOUSES. There were no slaughterhouses in
use during the year, although one renewal of licence was granted.
A good deal of publicity has been given to the subject of the
slaughter of horses and the matter has been raised on more than
one occasion in the House of Commons, but no horse slaughtering
on licensed premises has been carried on in Wembley for a great
many years nor have any licences for knackers' yards been issued.
6. INDUSTRIAL NUISANCES. The Council have continued
to be concerned with problems arising under this heading,
particularly from noise and vibration and, although some progress
has been made, industry does not remain static and the installation
of new tools and plant and the application of new methods
bring fresh problems in their train. A ease in point has been
the installation of a powerful new air compressor with ancillary
plant which, despite great efforts on the part of the owners, continues
to give rise to complaints from local residents. Expert
advice was obtained by the Company concerned and ameliorative
steps taken included the provision of double glazed windows to
the building housing the machine, the bricking up of a double
doorway, the enclosing of certain plant by a brickwork structure,
alterations and improvements to the silencing equipment on the
air intake plant, alterations to the electric driving motor to overcome
whine. Production requires that this compressor should run
for a considerable number of hours at a stretch so that the residents
have no respite during the night or at week-ends. As the
Ministry of Local Government and Planning had allowed the
Company to go ahead with the installation of the plant following
an appeal against the local authority's decision, the Council
decided to refer the matter to the Ministry, where at the time of
the compilation of this report the matter rests.
Another type of problem has arisen in a different part of the
district where a number of small light engineering factories are
in close proximity to residential buildings. There are, however,
fundamental differences in these cases in that the factories do not
work at night and many of the noises are intermittent or
transitory. Many approaches have been made to the factory
managements concerned, with some benefit but there was a
tendency for some noisy processes to recur, such as metal fettling
or grinding in the open air, and the noisy handling of tubular
metal in an open air compound. In one case the hardening process
of metal gave rise to complaints of fumes and noise and the
Company decided to abandon this process after representations had
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