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On the 13th May it was reported to the Council that notices had been
served on a number of shopkeepers and stallholders on The Green with
reference to the nuisance arising from the deposit of shop refuse, sawdust, etc.,
on the carriage way. On the 30th June two letters were submitted to the
Works Committee complaining of the nuisance of costers' stalls and the smell
of fish offal therefrom in Leeds Street. On the 8th of that month the Council
instructed the Inspector of Nuisances to see all the costers in Edmonton streets
with a view of abating the nuisances and to inform them that, unless the
nuisance was abated, the police would be communicated with as to the removal
of the stalls. The Inspector reported to the Sanitary Committee on the
3rd September that he had interviewed most of the costers and that they had
agreed in future to remove the refuse. He stated that the greatest nuisance
arose from fish stalls, the owners of which he had informed that they must make
provision for the collection of fish washings. Otherwise these horrid fish washings
are emptied down the gullies into the surface water channels and so pollute
Salmon's Brook. At the meeting of the Works Committee on the 1st December
the Engineer submitted a complaint from the Middlesex County Council with
reference to the surface water which flows from The Green into Salmon's
Brook.
Unsound fish was seized by the Chief Inspector exposed for sale on a
coster's stall on The Green, and on the 12th June defendant was fined 20s. and
costs.