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Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 19201933.
During the year the number of certificates applied for and
granted was 16.
Offensive trades. There are 27 premises in the borough
in which offensive trades or trades analogous thereto are carried
on. These are shown in Table IV.

Supervision. All these premises are visited very frequently
by the sanitary inspectors, not merely to ensure compliance with
the bye-laws, but by friendly co-operation to prevent the occurrence
of carelessness during the collection and handling of raw materials.
The employees are encouraged to exercise care at each stage of the
process. The attitude of coercion has been abandoned, and
although these trades, which are usually considered very offensive,
are carried on in a comparatively small area of the borough, it is
now quite customary to find an entire absence of offensive odour
or smoke pollution. These results were not achieved by a policy
of restricting the action of the inspectors to a rigid enforcement of
the bye-laws.
All such factories, except one, have adopted the vacuum
system of cooking. The time factor is considerably reduced by this
process and it is now seldom necessary to store new material. The
great benefit derived is the lessening of the fly nuisance, and it is
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