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13. Chemical Work.—The Essex County Council Public
Health Laboratory carries out any chemical investigations required.
The Food and Drugs Act is administered by the Essex County
Council, to whom Dr. Bernard Dyer is the public analyst.
14. Byelaws and Local Acts.
Byelaws exist for—
(1) Prevention of Nuisances.
(2) Cleansing of footways and pavements, and cleansing of earth
closets, privies, ashpits and cesspools.
(3) Dealing with common lodging house and houses let in lodgings.
(4) Slaughterhouses and humane slaughtering of animals.
(5) Offensive trades:—
(а) Bone boilers.
(b) Fellmongers.
(c) Leather dressers.
(d) Soap boilers.
(e) Tanners.
(f) Tallow melters.
(g) Fat melters or fat extractors.
(h) Glue makers.
(i) Tripe boilers.
(j) Size makers.
(k) Gut sorapers.
(l) Fish frier and fish curer.
(m) Rag and bone dealer.
(6) For securing the cleanliness and freedom from pollution of
tanks, cisterns, and other receptacles used for storing water
used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic
purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of man.
(7) Nuisances in connection with the removal of offensive or
noxious matter.
There are two local Acts in operation—(1) The Ilford Improvement
Act, 1898, which has important sanitary provisions, and
(2) Ilford Urban District Council Act, 1904, the section of which
(dealing with the control of Tuberculosis) is now over-ruled by the
Milk and Dairies Act, while the section dealing with infectious
disease has enactments similar to the Public Health Acts of 1907.
Sections 62 and 63 only of Part IV of the Public Health Act, 1907,
have been adopted.