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(id) Thames and other Embankments.—Maintenance, repair, cleansing, watering
and lighting of any footway or carriageway forming part of any embankment
vested in the County Council, but exclusive of the maintenance and repair
of any embankment wall or any lamp erected on an embankment wall.
(e) Common Lodging Houses.—Registration, licensing, inspection and regulation
of common lodging houses and the enforcement of by-laws relating
to such houses, but exclusive of the power of making by-laws under Section
53 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902.
(/) Cowhouses and Places for the Keeping of Cows.—Licensing of dairymen to
use premises as a cowhouse or place for the keeping of cows.
(g) Infant Life Protection.—Reception of notices given by persons who undertake
for reward the nursing and maintenance in a dwelling of infants and the
inspection of premises by infant protection visitors or other persons
appointed by the Council for that purpose.
Fixing the number of infants to be kept in a dwelling in which any
infant is received for reward.
Applications to a Court of Justice for an Order directing the removal
of an infant to a place of safety.
(h) Offensive Trades.—Consideration of, and decision upon, applications for
sanction to the establishment anew or enlargement of certain offensive
businesses ; or imposition, modification or removal of conditions.
(i) Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards.—Licensing of slaughterers of cattle
or horses and of knackers to use premises as a slaughterhouse or knacker's
yard.
Licensing of persons to use premises for receiving or keeping horses
for slaughter or the carcases of dead horses.
Certain recreation grounds, disused burial grounds and other open spaces in
London, provided they do not exceed a prescribed area, are also transferred to the
Borough Councils, but this does not affect Woolwich.
vi. Institutional Treatment for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate Infants
and Homeless Children.
There are no special provisions for any of these classes in the Borough.