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Battersea 1895

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895

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exposed for sale upon a barrow in York Road, the same being
unfit for human food, and was afterwards destroyed by order of
the Magistrate. Difficulty was experienced in tracing the
owner of the fish. Proceedings were subsequently instituted
against two persons who were convicted and fined.
November, 5th, 1895.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector reported that he had attended
the Licensing Meeting of the Public Health and Housing
Committee of the London County Council with reference to the
Licensing of Cowhouses and Slaughterhouses and that with one
exception the whole of the Licenses were renewed upon the same
conditions, the exception was with reference to a slaughterhouse
situated at 82, Usk Road at which sometime previously a
diseased calf was seized and fat boiling found to be carried on.
The Licensing Committee at their adjourned meeting renewed
the License on condition that the Licensee only slaughtered pigs
which were his own property.
In consequence of a case of Typhoid Fever occurring to a
pupil of Vicarage School, Lavender Gardens, but residing in
Wandsworth, he tested the drains and examined the whole of
the sanitary arrangements and water supply of the School, when
the same were found to be in good condition and did not appear
to have caused the case of Typhoid mentioned above and no
other case occurred.
He also reported that the September inspection of bakehouses
had been carried out and with but eight exceptions the
cleansing and limewhiting had been attended to. The Sanitary
Committee gave instructions for notices to be served in these
cases and the same were subsequently complied with.
November 19th.
The laundry situated at 32, Latchmere Road had been
inspected, the Chief Sanitary Inspector found that there was ample
cubic air space for the persons employed but that the whole