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BRICKBURNING.
No complaints were received of effluvia arising in the
process of brickburning, this being the first year, within my
official memory, of freedom from complaint, excepting the year
1892, when no bricks were burned at Wood Lane, none having
been made owing to a strike of the employes. Only one
brickmaker carried on business, in 1895, in the district,
which is in the Parish of Hammersmith, and that, as I am
informed, on a limited scale; his operations, apparently, having
been of a tentative or experimental kind, conducted with the
view of ascertaining the practicability, or otherwise, of making
and burning the London stock brick without the use of materials
obtained from the dustbins, to wit, ashes, for incorporation with
the clay, etc., and breeze for fuel. I understand that this gentleman's
operations went to prove that bricks can be made and
burned without the aid of the dustbin materials referred to,
which were the cause of the offensive smells so largely complained
of in former years by the parishioners of Kensington,
and of which I would fain hope we have heard the last.
LICENSED SLAUGHTER HOUSES
Thirteen premises were licensed to be used as slaughterhouses
at the Licensing Sessions of the County Council.
Of these seven are situated in North Kensington and
six in South Kensington. The several premises were, as
usual, systematically visited by the Sanitary Inspectors.
The names of the licencees, and the localities of the
premises, are set out in Table XI. (Appendix.) The several
premises were inspected in July by the Sanitary Committee,
who reported favourably with respect to them. One licence
in the north district was allowed to lapse. In 1874 there
were some 1,500 slaughter-houses in the Metropolis ; in 1895
only 484, and 22 fewer than in 1894. In Kensington,
48 were licensed in 1878, the year before the passing of the
Slaughter-houses (Metropolis) Act; in 1874 only 31. Now