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excepting such as was derived from liberty to oppose the
renewal of the annual license. It is proper that the Council
should be the " Local Authority " for the purpose of making
regulations, so as to secure uniformity for the whole Metropolis
; but I have always contended that the Sanitary
Authorities should have concurrent power to enable them
to enforce the requirements of the regulations, and this power
has practically been conferred by Section 20 (7) of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. It is to be desired, in the
interests of public health, that private slaughter-houses may,
at no distant date, give place to public abattoirs. Meanwhile,
it is satisfactory to know that comparatively little
slaughtering goes on in the parish, the wants of which are
mostly provided for by the dead meat trade.
In my Annual Report for 1889 I gave a summary of
the provisions of the Sale of Horseflesh, &c., Regulation
Act, which came into force in September, 1889. Hitherto,
no shop has been opened in this Parish for the sale of horseflesh
for food of man.
LICENSED COW-HOUSES.
Five the eight licensed cow-houses are in North
Kensington and three in South Kensington. The names oi
the licensees, and the localities of the premises, are set out in
Table XII. (Appendix). The several premises were inspected
in July by the Works and Sanitary Committee, and found to
be in a generally satisfactory condition. There were only
53 cows, in all, in the sheds. Not many years ago there were
28 sheds, containing about 500 cows.
There has been a considerable reduction in the number
of cowsheds in the Metropolis, viz., from 10-14 in 1880 to
489 in 1893, or 56 fewer than in 1892. In Kensington the
reduction has been from 23 in 1880 to 8 in 1893,