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Offensive Trades. There are no offensive trades in the
Borough.
Action taken with Regard to Smoke Abatement. The
Sanitary Inspectors in the ordinary course of their duties
keep chimney stacks under observation and record any
nuisance from smoke. In addition to this, special investigations
are made where complaints are received. In the
course of the year 158 special observations were recorded
and 24 offences were discovered. Warning letters were sent
in each case. During the year the appropriate Committee of
the London County Council provisionally approved the
following draft bye-law :—
"The emission of black smoke for a period of two
minutes in the aggregate within any continuous period of
30 minutes from any one chimney or a building, other than
a private dwelling house, shall, until the contrary is
proved, be presumed to be a nuisance liable to be dealt
with summarily under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891."
Factory and Workshop Act. The Medical Officer of
Health is required to include in his Annual Report details of
the administration of this Act in his district. The total
number of factories, workshops and workplaces on the register
was 358. The number of inspections was 989, compared with
778 in 1928. The number of sanitary defects found was 98,
and 95 of these had been remedied at the end of the year.
Bakehouses are specially reported on in the section dealing
with the supervision of food.
The number of inspections of Outworkers' premises, 756,
compares with 820 for 1928. Most of the outworkers in the