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25
Handrails and Banisters provided to staircases, or
repaired 16
Portable aslibins provided 211
Accumulations of manure and refuse removed 4
Stables limewashed 2
Manure receptacle provided 1
Nuisance from overcrowding abated 13
Water supply provided direct from rising main 30
Water supply reinstated 8
Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered 3
Disused cisterns removed 7
Water pipes or taps provided or repaired 6
Premises connected to M.W.B. mains and use of well
water discontinued 12
Stoves and firegrates repaired or renewed 46
Coppers repaired or renewed 25
Chimney flue repaired 2
Chimney Stacks repointed or repaired 12
Dilapidated buildings demolished 16
Sheds removed or repaired 2
Nuisance from smoke abated 5
Illegal use of basement rooms discontinued 2
Odours from trade premises abated
Miscellaneous 7
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
The number of complaints received during 1929 in
respect of alleged nuisance from smoke was five. Twentysix
observations were made, and in several instances excessive
amounts of smoke were recorded.
In three industrial premises new boilers and furnaces
were installed. In each case smoke eliminators were fixed
and there has been considerable reduction in the amount of
black smoke emitted from their chimneys as a result.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
There are only two common lodging houses registered
in the Borough, but there is also another building in which
lodgers are taken for short periods, but it does not come
within the scope of the Bye-laws owing to the fact that
lodgers are not received for one night only.