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OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only premises in Shoreditch upon which an offensive business is carried on
now are situate at No. 69 Haggerston Road, where tripe is boiled. The business of
tripe-boiling has ceased at No. 110 Goldsmith Row.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The following houses, let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one
family, were registered during the year under the bye-laws as to houses let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one family :
Hows Street, Nos. 9 and 11.
Bernales Buildings, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The number on the register at the end of the year 1902 was 191.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT.
Applications for certificates as to the sanitary fitness of dwellings for the purpose
of obtaining exemption from inhabited house duty were received in respect to 33
tenements. These tenements were duly inspected, and the necessary certificates were
granted in eight instances at once, and in the remaining 25 after certain works
which were required had been carried out.
STREET MARKETS AND FOOD.
The usual daily supervision was exercised by the sanitary officers over the street
markets and the food exposed for sale, and frequent inspections were made with a
view to the detection of unsound food. Except in a comparatively few instances the
quality of the various food stuffs exposed for sale was excellent.
The following articles were destroyed during the year as unfit for food :—1 box and
2 barrels of skate, 1 trunk of plaice, 1 box of hake, 1 box of haddocks, 2 trunks and 1
box of sprats, 1 bag of mussels, 121bs. of beef pieces, 4cwt. and 241bs. of rabbits, 2
boxes of sausages, 15 boxes of tomatoes, 3 tons 9cwt. of cabbage, 23 boxes of potatoes,
39 baskets of brussels sprouts, and two barrels of pickled ca.ulifiowers. It was not
necessary to prosecute in any instance.
ICE CREAMS.
During the past year there has been some useful legislation for the purpose of
controlling the conditions under which the manufacture of ice cream is carried on.
Part VIII. of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which came
into operation on November 1st, 1902, provides as follows:—
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice creams or other
similar commodity who within the County—