Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1899.

  • Greenwich (London, England). Board of Works.
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[1899]
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Credit: Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the last mentioned magistrate had been transferred from the Greenwich to the Southwark and North London Police Courts. He was applied to, to proceed with the summonses but said he could not go back to Greenwich to hear them, and would have to hear them at Southwark, but the Chief Clerk there pointed out that all the time of that Court was absorbed for some months to come. It was therefore obvious that if the summonses were heard at all they could only be heard in such scraps of time as could from time to time be given to them at Southwark. To conduct business in this way was obviously impracticable in consequence of the delay and expense which would have been involved, and consequently it was agreed with the Solicitors of the defendants that no further proceedings should be taken on those summonses, but, at the same time, it was pointed out to the defendants' Solicitors that if further certificates were given, certifying those manufactories to be a nuisance, or dangerous to the health of any of the inhabitants of the district, the Board would have no option but to commence proceedings de novo. Proceedings were also taken against the owner of two newly erected houses in the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, for permit ting those houses to be occupied- as dwelling houses without it having been certified by the Sanitary Authority that such houses had a proper and sufficient supply of water, and the magistrate ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of £5, and 2s. costs, in respect of each of such two houses. Proceedings were also taken against the occupier of certain premises in the Parish of Greenwich, used as a dairy and cowsheds, for making default in complying with the requisition of a notice
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