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SHOWS, FAIRS, &c.
The question of how to deal with objectionable shows, more particularly
those which disgrace the Upper Street during the Cattle show
week,has for some years occupied the attention of the Vestry, and in 1888,
finding thut its powers under either the local Acts or the Metropolis
Management Acts were insufficient, the Vestry caused a Bill to be drafted
dealing with the matter in the hope that Sir A. K. Rollit, the energetic
member for South Islington, might have seen his way to fathering the
same in the Houso of Commons. The business of the session did not
however permit of this being then done. In November, 1689, the
Vestry was compelled to take proceedings to restrain the occupiers of
Nos. 348 and 349, Upper Street, from letting their shops for the purpose
of such shows during the Cattle show week. The Attorney-General's
fiat having been first obtained, an application was made to Mr. Justice
North, on December 7th, 1889, when a perpetual injunction was granted.
There can he no doubt that the nuisance caused by unlicensed
fairs, shows, &e., is annually increasing, and it is very desirable
that some properly constituted authority should have the power of
dealing with them without having first to prove a specific nuisance
in a Court of Law.
MAP OF THE PARISH.
This map which was referred to in the last annual report as being
in course of preparation is now completed and hangs in the lower
Committee room, the work having been in hand about a year and a
half.
The map is drawn to a scale of 25 inches to the mile, and shews
all new streets laid out and buildings erected up to the date of its
completion.
The actual cost of the map including the oak case and fixing was
£258 10s., a further sum of £44 having also been expended in revising
and bringing up to date the 88 feet ordnance sheets belonging to the
Vestry from which sheets the map was reduced.
This amount exceeds the estimate of the Surveyor (Mr. lliggins)
under whom most of the work was carried out, but the possession of