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last year's report, with one exception, which
will be duly reported to you. There are some
in which no slaughtering has been done during
the year, and the dead meat portion of the
trade seems to be slowly gravitating towards
the Central Market, at which several of the
Aldgate butchers have holdings.
The proceedings taken by the Sanitary
Committee for the abolition of a large receptacle
for dung and of[???]al at the rear of the
slaughter-houses and lairs in Harrow Alley,
common to the public, which for many
years had stood on the roadway and been
a public scandal, and the substitution, at
the public cost, of asphalte pavement for
old uneven and ragged granite cubes have
put an end to many of the disagreeable
features of the place, and the roadway is now
regularly flushed and cleansed by the scavengers,
so that the general surroundings are much
more wholesome and decent than was formerly
the case.