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the London County Council, and the Local Authority.
Such overlapping is not only expensive—not to say
wasteful—but gives rise to irritation on the part of
the occupiers, who not unnaturally object to a succession
of inspections. It does seem desirable that
workrooms, where no question of danger from
machinery arises, should be placed solely under the
supervision of the Local Authority, subject to powers
of intervention on the part of the Home Office and
(or) the London County Council, similar to those
provided by Sec. 100 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891. At the same time local authorities
should be required to appoint a sufficient number of
officers to attend to the work, whose salaries should
be paid from the Imperial Exchequer. The work
involves not only the health of the employes, but
also that of the community generally.
Smoke Abatement.—A close watch has been kept
over those shafts which have been in the past
sources of complaint of nuisance. Details of two
cases may be mentioned somewhat particularly.
Complaints were received of smoke nuisance from
the shaft of Usher's Brewery at the top of Queen's
Road. It was found on inspection that the shaft
consisted of a base and column of brickwork, about
4-ft. square, on top of which was an iron pipe of
about 1-ft. diameter. The head of the pipe was not
clear of the surrounding houses. The shaft was