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1st September, 1887.—Notice to occupiers of success of the
trial and of date when pail system would be extended
to whole Borough.
1888.—West Ham Corporation (Improvements) Act passed,
giving power to Council to require use of pails or other
suitable receptacles in place of dust bins.
September, 1889.- Notice under the above Act served on
the occupier of each house in Borough.
29th December, 1892.-Bye-law under section 26 of the
Public Health Acts Amendment. Act, requiring occupiers
to place pails outside front of house allowed by Local
Government Board.
May, 1895.-Notice under above bye-law served on each
occupier.
Factory and Workshops Acts.—Under the Act of 1895
not only are Laundries brought specially under the care of the Medical
Officer of Health, but the Sanitary Authority is required to exercise
a watchful supervision of Workshops, i.e., all places (with certain
exceptions) where persons are employed for the purpose of trade or
manufacture without the aid of steam or mechanical power, and in
addition it is implied that the sanitary surroundings of outworkers,
i.e., persons taking work to be completed at their own homes, should
receive the constant attention of sanitary officials.
During the year a considerable amount of work in this respect
has been done by your staff, as is seen in the Table given below, but
it has been at the expense of useful labour in other directions. Most
of the largest English towns have appointed special Inspectors for this
duty, and if the provisions of the Act are to be carried out systematically,
as they should be in West Ham, I must recommend the
Council to adopt the same course.