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house refuse assumed a highly controversial complexion. A letter was
received by the Council from the Local Government Board, enclosing
a complaint from the West Ham Board of Guardians that a pest of
flies experienced at Savage Gardens, a group of houses situate half.a.
mile from the shoot in a south.easterly direction, was due to the
refuse on the Council's shoot. Also on March 7th, Professor
R. T. Hewlett, Professor W. I. Simpson, and Colonel Alcock attended
the Public Health Committee as a deputation from the Branch
Seamen's Hospital, situate half.a.mile from the shoot in a southwesterly
direction, to urge the Council to discontinue shooting at
Beckton Road. The Council were unable to admit that the flies complained
of either at Savage Gardens or the Branch Seamen's Hospital
emanated from the shoot, but they instructed the Public Health
Committee to consider and report upon other methods of dealing with
house refuse. In the meantime fires have been kept constantly
burning on the shoot with the result that most of the animal and
vegetable matter and other soft refuse has been destroyed or rendered
innocuous.
BYE.LAWS RELATING TO OFFENSIVE TRADES
COMMON LODGING.HOUSES, &c.
Offensive Trades.—Upwards of thirty premises where statutory
offensive businesses are carried on are located in the Borough,
and include soap manufacturers, 9 ; fat melters and bone boilers, 12 ;
gut scrapers, 2 ; fish and offal collectors, 2 ; organic manure manufacturers,
2; other trades, 3. These are subject to constant inspection,
and may be said to be carried on with comparatively little nuisance
to the general public.
Several fresh applications were dealt with during the year 1909,
of which the following are the particulars :—
An application from Mr. W. Menzies, of St. Albans, for permission
to establish the trade of sausage skin cleaning and gut band making