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Smoke Nuisances.—During the year 1906 your Council
continued to receive lists of complaints of smoke nuisances from the
Secretary of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society. These lists your
Public Health Committee have found to be of little or no use to them
in dealing with the general question of smoke. The lists are received
so long after the alleged nuisance is stated to have occurred that it is
impossible to act on the information received. 3,491 observations
were made during the year by your own Inspector. In 1,083 of these
hourly observations smoke was seen to be emitted from the chimney,
and in 370 of these cases the smoke emitted was excessive.
Removal of Offensive Matter Act, 1906.—Para
graph 4 of Section 60 of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, which
provided for the hours during which offensive matter might be
conveyed through the streets within the Metropolitan Police District
was repealed by the above Act on 21st December, 1906. The
anomalous position in respect of the hours of collection within and
without the administrative County of London created by the passage
of the Public Health London Act, 1891, which was fully dealt with
in my reports of 1894 and 1904, has thus been rendered capable of
rectification by the adoption of Bye-laws prescribing hours similar to
those in force in London. At the time of writing, however, there are
no specified hours prescribed for the removal of any offensive matter
from West Ham.