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57.
NUISANCES FROM NOISE.
During the year 11 complaints were made regarding nuisances from noise.
In one case complaint was made of noise from a juke box and the complainants
were advised on the procedure to adopt to serve the statutory notices to abate
the nuisance.
Towards the end of the year the Noise Abatement Act 1960 came into force
which will give the Council power to deal with noise, vibration, loudspeakers
and other sources of noise as statutory nuisances under the Public Health
(London) Act 1936. This will enable the Health Department to deal with matters
of noise which are injurious or dangerous to health on complaint from three
occupiers of land or premises who are aggrieved by the nuisance. It will also
enable the Department to deal with loudspeakers in the streets and on
vehicles.
OFFENSIVE TRADES
An establishment order under Section 140, Public Health (London) Act,1936,
was renewed during the year in respect of the business of a Fur Skin Dresser.
The number of visits made was 4.
WELLS
There are two wells in use in the Borough. In one case the water is used
for washing down and cooling purposes and in the other case, which is a
factory, the water from the well is used for all purposes.
PUBLIC SWIMMING BATHS
Shoreditch has now only one swimming bath (indoor), built in 1904,
situated in Whiston Road, Haggerston, open all the year round for mixed
bathing at all times. (Sunday swimming from May to September only). The pool
is 100 feet long by 35 feet wide, constructed of blue and white glazed bricks,
with a depth of 3 feet 4 inches at the shallow end, increasing gradually to
6 feet 4 inches at the deep end, at which there is one 3 metre fixed diving
stage with 3 lower fixed boards at each side. The surround is 3 feet wide
of non-slip tiles and seats rise in tiers from the surround up to the dressing
cubicles at the back. The seats which are made of teak, also form clothes
lockers for use by children during peak periods. Male and female toilets and
foot-baths are situated at each side of the pool at the shallow end.