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nuisance which is the subject of the complaint For the purposes of this
Section a noise nuisance is deemed to exist where any person makes or causes to
be made or continued any excessive or unreasonable or unnecessary noise which
is injurious or dangerous to health
Some fifty-six complaints were received necessitating 144 visits and
observations being made, as a result of which eighteen nuisances were discovered
and eight informal and one formal notice were served.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953
SECTION 17 (Sampling of trade effluents). Trade effluent samples to the
number of seventy-seven were taken from sixty-seven premises and submitted
to the Scientific Branch of the Public Health Department of the London County
Council who undertake the analyses at a cost to the Borough Council of £1 per
sample; fourteen of these samples were reported on as being unsatisfactory,
The occupiers of the premises from which unsatisfactory samples were obtained
were interviewed and advised as to the action necessary to remedy the
unsatisfactory discharge. Copies of the reports on the analysis of all
samples were sent to the Borough Engineer and Surveyor for his information
and any action he might consider necessary
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1954
SECTION 12 (Obligation to provide dustbins). Notices requiring the owners
concerned to provide additional dustbins were served in respect of seven
premises Legal proceedings for failure to comply with notices were
instituted in three instances
SECTION 18 (Hairdressers and Barbers). Applications for registration
received during the year:-
Persons 15
Premises 4
Inspections of registered premises 139
A total of 188 persons and 144 premises were on the Council's Register
at the end of the year.
An informal notice was served in respect of one premises at which con
traventions of the relevant Bylaws were found
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1955
SECTION 25 (Powers as to stopped-up or defective drains, etc.). Under the
provisions of this section, if it appears to the borough surveyor or medical
officer of health or a public health inspector of a borough that on any premises
in the borough a drain water-closet or soil pipe is stopped up he may by notice
require the owner or occupier of the premises to remedy the defect within
forty-eight hours from the service of the notice and if the notice is not
complied with the borough council may themselves recover the expenses incurred
in so doing from the person on whom the notice was served, One notice was
served under this section, and in the owner's default, the stopped-up drains
were cleared by the Council.
SECTION 27 (Remedying of defective premises). One notice was served in
respect of premises where it was considered that unreasonable delay in remedying
the defective state thereof would be occasioned by following the procedure
prescribed in the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, and
the Council carried out the necessary work in default.