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Medical Officer's Report.
One hundred and forty-eight stones of mutton damaged by fire and
water.
A large proportion of the above was foreign meat and offal, and was also
diseased.
Total weight (less offal) 3316 st. 1½ lbs.
Diseased and decomposed meat, total weight (less offal) 4328 st. 7½ lbs.
The butchers' shops, stalls, slaughter-houses, and also the provision
warehouses, &c., were regularly inspected by the Meat Inspector.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There is a large and increasing number of factories and workships in the
District.
Many more of these have this year been inspected, and the sanitary defects
have been remedied.
The Factory Inspectors of the Home Office have supplied us with
information concerning a few of these.
In the Eastern Division 850 workrooms of these premises received attention.
HOUSES CLOSED VOLUNTARILY, DEMOLISHED, REBUILT, &c.
88, 89, High Holborn, rebuilt.
5, 6, and 7, Gray's Inn Passage, demolished.
Richbell Place, all demolished. (Closing orders were obtained for Nos. 2,
3, 4, and 5 in 1897.)
Emerald Street, Nos. 9 and 11, adjoining Richbell Place, also demolished,
and warehouses being erected on the site.
"Red Lion and Ball," public house, and 1, Red Lion Passage, demolished
and rebuilt.
6, 7, and 8, Boswell Court, closed and demolished ; also Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5
demolished the earlier part of 1899.
"Old Red Lion," public house, Red Lion Street, rebuilt.
" King's Arms," Little James Street and John Street, demolished and
rebuilt.
33 and 33A, Red Lion Square, and 11, Old North Street, demolished, and
residential flats, known as " Ashbourne House," erected on the site.
" Holborn," public house, 4, High Holborn, demolished and rebuilt.