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Legislation.
The folio-wing is a summary of local legislation designed to minimise
nuisance or discomfort to the general population:—The Harrow Urban
(Offensive Trades) Confirmation Order under Section 112 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, under which the following trades, businesses or manufactories
are declared to be offensive trades—rag and bone dealers ;
blood drier;leather dresser; tanner; fat melter or fat extractor;
glue maker ; size maker and gut scraper. The bye-laws made by former
authorities and continued in force by the Middlesex Review Order, 1944,
include those relating to refuse dumps. Bye-laws made by the present
Council, dealing with matters referred to the Public Health Committee,
include those relating to nuisances (20.2.36), to nuisances in connection
with the removal of offensive or noxious matters (20.2.36), slaughterhouses
(20.2.36), smoke abatement (20.2.36), houses let in lodgings
(20.2.36), hairdressers' and barbers' premises (18.12.36), establishments
for massage and special treatment (21.7.37), and offensive trades (18.8.39).
Regulations regarding underground rooms became operative on 20.3.36.
Bye-laws made by the County Council for the Good Rule and Government
deal, inter alia, with waste paper or other refuse in streets, broken
glass, etc., on highways or public places, deposit of litter to the detriment
of public amenities, deposit of tree or hedge clippings, noisy animals,
some noises, gypsy encampments, carrying of soot, carrying of carcases,
contents of ash-bins, and the fouling by dogs of foot-ways.
COUNCIL HOUSING.
457 houses were erected by the Harrow-on-the-Hill Council, 202 on
the Honeybun Estate, and 255 at the Eastcote Lane Estate. 485 were
built by the Wealdstone Council, 260 being in Weald Village and 169 in
the Elmgrove Estate. There are 10 houses in Meadow Way, 39 in
Montrose Road and 7 bungalows in Canning, Byron and Palmerston
Roads. Of the 800 houses erected by the Hendon Rural District Council,
112 are on the Chandos Estate, Little Stanmore, 81 at Woodlands Drive,
Harrow Weald, 53 at Canterbury Road, North Harrow, 59 at Pinner Hill
Road and The Close, Pinner, and 32 at Wolverton Road, Great Stanmore.
In a further scheme, 88 were built on the Chandos Estate, 40 at Bransgrove
Road, 65 on the Glebe Estate, 22 at Kenton Lane, 42 at Church
Lane, Harrow Weald, and 206 on the Pinner Hill Estate. In addition,
the Council possesses 20 houses at Greenway, Pinner, 14 at The City,
Harrow Weald, and Tithe Farm Cottage, Cannon Lane.
The numbers built under the various Housing Acts were:—1919, 573;
1923, 706 ; 1924, 463 ; and 1925, 20.
In 1936/37, the Glebe (46) and the Berridge (68) Estates were developed
and the King's Road site for the housing of the aged (18), in all
some 128 houses. In the years just before the war, the housing programme
provided for the development of the Rayners Lane Estate, and work
had started on the construction of roads and the laying of sewers.
While there was the need for further houses, as shown by the list
of some thousand applicants for houses, the regular surrender of tenancies
amongst those occupying Council houses did enable some houses to be