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Notice of appeal against the magistrate's decision was lodged,
which came before Mr. Justice Wright and Mr. Justice Darling
on the 18th March, 1898, when it was held that the temporary
cessation of business was not sufficient to bring the premises
within the Statute, and that it could not be held as a matter of
law that, because the premises happened to be untenanted on a
particular date, the section of the Act applied, and that they
could not be further used as a bakehouse. The appeal was
therefore allowed, with costs, tha Court holding that the
determination of the Magistrate was wrong in law, and that he
ought not to have convicted the appellant.
Cowhouses In October last, a Sub-Committee of the Health
Slaughter- Committee visited the whole of the Cow-houses and
Houses. Slaughter-houses in the Parish for which applications
had been made for the renewal of licenses, the results were given
at the meeting of November 1st.
The under-mentioned matters have from time to time been
submitted to the Health Committee by the Chief Sanitary
Inspector, Mr. Isaac Young, during the year under report, the
dates being appended for convenience of reference.
18th January, 1898.—He submitted report at this meeting
with reference to the condition of the drains in connection with
the Dovedale Almshouses, Battersea Park Road, that upon
testing they were found to be in defective condition, which
necessitated their entire re-construction, and this has been carried
into effect upon plans approved by the Vestry.
1st February.—By direction of the Health Committee, at this
meeting he submitted report relative to the ground at the rear of
houses in Stainforth Road, being occupied by van dwellers, and
also with reference to a wooden shed or structure erected upon
the same, in the occupation of the tenant of the ground. The
land in question is usually occupied by a large number of van