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Disposal was effected by removal from Homerton Wharf to a controlled tip at
Mucking Creek in Essex.
SECTIONS 95/103 (Water supply). Certificates issued in respect of suitable
and sufficient water supply for new dwellings totalled eighteen, and related to
270 units of living accommodation, and a Rest Centre. The Metropolitan Water
Board was notified regarding waste of water from defective fittings, etc. at
122 premises
SECTION 96 (Water supply to part of a building). Two informal and two formal
notices were served. Legal proceedings were instituted in one instance.
SECTION 105 (Insufficient water closet accommodation). One notice was served.
SECTION 107 (Bylaws as to sanitary conveniences, etc.).
(a) Water closets, etc. Informal notices were served in respect of
contraventions found at twenty-two premises, and eighteen formal notices were
served.
(b) Dustbins- Informal notices were served in respect of 117 premises
at which owners had failed to maintain dustbins in a proper condition of repair.
Formal notices were served in 105 instances, and in only two cases was it
necessary to institute legal proceedings.
SECTION 109 (Penalty for improperly making or altering sanitary conveniences.
&c.). Sixteen formal notices requiring the repair of defective sanitary
conveniences, pipes, and fittings were served and in one case it was necessary
to institute legal proceedings.
SECTION 113 (Provision of public conveniences). The Borough Council maintain
twelve conveniences for women and twelve conveniences and eight urinals for men
and also maintain jointly with the Stoke Newington Borough Council a further
convenience for men and women. No charge is made for the use of conveniences,
and free hand-washing facilities are provided; additional washing facilities,
for which payment is required, are also available at these conveniences.
SECTION 122 (Clecnsing or destruction of filthy or verminous articles). The
cleansing or destruction of verminous articles was undertaken as follows:
Verminous articles treated 2,916
Verminous articles destroyed 3,023
Unwholesome laundry
Number of persons for whom service was provided during the
year 161
Collections and deliveries made 3,542
Number of articles cleansed 33,726
This service was again made available to persons resident in Bethnal Green.
SECTION 123 (Cleansing of verminous houses). The disinfestation of 553
verminous rooms in 269 houses was carried out.
SECTION 132 (Restriction on use of underground rooms as dwellings) makes it an
offence to let or occupy or knowingly suffer to be occupied any underground
room in contravention of this section. In one case it was found necessary to
warn the owners concerned against letting rooms which did not satisfy the
requirements of the section.
SECTION 137 (Nuisance arising from offensive trade). Investigations to the
number of 28 were made in respect of complaints of effluvia arising from trade