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I cannot refrain from mentioning here the handicapping
circumstances of the extreme inadequacy of our office accommodation.
It is such as would be considered hardly sufficient for a
Rural District Council. Its available floor space is a little over
200 square feet, and the existing arrangements are anything but
conducive to good office work.
It will be noted in Table IV that the number of complaints
received of nuisances is an increasing one. This fact may be
attributed to the fact of the increase of rents under the Rent and
Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 and 1923, and the
growing education of the public upon the importance of domestic
sanitation.
It will also be observed that more Final Notices are being issued.
This is necessitated by the growing disposition of owners to ignore
Intimation Notices.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
As there is no special industry carried on in the Borough, the
Factories and Workshops are for the most part small and the work
engaged upon is of various kinds.
All the Workshops and Workplaces have been regularly
inspected, and, generally speaking, they are maintained in a satisfactory
condition. The employment of women, in addition to men,
has necessitated the provision of separate water-closet accommodation
in a number of cases.
It has been found possible to inspect most of the homes of the
Out-workers resident in Stoke Newington. The lighting of some
"Domestic Workshops" in basement rooms often has been found
unsatisfactory.
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Smoke nuisances are infrequent in Stoke Newington. During
the past five years they have numbered only nine, and these were
all in respect of four premises. The smoke nuisances were abated
in each instance.