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to ensure that the byelaws relating thereto are complied with. Legal
proceedings were issued against a person for keeping a common lodging
house without a licence. The summons was proved, the defendant being
fined £5.
Lodging Houses - Seamen
Two such premises in the Borough provide accommodation for 388
seamen, as follows:-
Sailors Home & Red Ensign Club, Ensign Street
and Dock Street. 2A3 Seamen
Empire Memorial Hostel, 747, Commercial Road. 145 "
Regular inspections, including some at night, are also carried out
at these premises.
Lodging Houses - Other
In addition to the licensed common and seamen's lodging houses,
there are two other premises in the Borough which provide lodgings but
which are not subject to licensing or registration; • namely, Tower House
and Providence Row Night Refuge.
Tower House (formerly known as "Rowton House"), which was opened in
1902, provides accommodation for 694 men and Providence Row Night Refuge
for 77 men, women and children.
Milk Bottles
Attention was given to the problem created by the abandoning of
large quantities of empty milk bottles on vacant sites in the Borough
and, following discussions at a meeting with various representatives of
the dairy trade, with their co-operation satisfactory arrangemements
were made for the collection and disposal of abandoned bottles.
Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) Regulations. 196?
These Regulations, which came into operation on 18th November 1963,
consolidate with amendments former regulations and prescribe British
Standards Specifications to which protective helmets must conform when
sold or offered for sale. Gale of helmets not conforming with the
Standards constitutes an offence under Section 221 of the Road Traffic
Act 1960. Five helmets examined at a shop in the Borough were found to
conform to the prescribed standards.
Noise Abatement Act. 1960
The London County Council (General Powers) Act 1937 made provisions
for excessive, unreasonable or unnecessary noise which is injurious or .
dangerous to health to be a noise nuisance which may be dealt with summarily
under the Public Health (London) Act .1936. The Noise Abatement
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