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West Ham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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One new bakehouse was erected at New City Road, and plans
were approved for the extension of stabling in connection with a large
factory bakehouse at the north side of Chaucer Road.
The nuisances found and abated in bakehouses, slaughter-houses,
and common lodging-houses will be seen in the tables in the Appendix
relating to the detailed work of the Sanitary Inspectors.
Fresh managers were appointed at, and their names registered as
the keepers of the common lodging-houses, 211, High Street, Stratford,
and 72, Great Eastern Road, Stratford. Tho common lodging-house
No. 26, High Street, Stratford, was voluntarily closed and ceased to
be used for this purpose.
Offensive Trades.—A complaint was received from the Local
Government Board, and a correspondence entered into between the
Board and your Council relating to an offensive factory in Sugar
House Lane. Frequent visits have been paid by your sanitary officials
to this factory with a view to abating offensive odours which are
emitted in the process of manufacture, especially in hot weather. The
Company maintain that they adopt the best known means of obviating
nuisance; but, even if they do, which is not admitted, their plant is
frequently found not to be acting satisfactorily, and if complaints continue
to arise and sufficient evidence be forthcoming, the Council will
be compelled to again take legal proceedings.
Application was made by Messrs. Hammersley for permission to
carry on the trade of bone-boiling in connection with their fat-melting
works at Bradfield Road, Silvertown. This permission was granted.
Mr. W. Hornett was found to be bone-boiling upon premises in
his occupation in Barber's Road without the consent of the Council.
Your Public Health Committee visited the premises and recommended