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Southwark 1893
Annual report for 1893 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health,—1893. 49
The Slaughter Houses and Knacker's Yards.
These (for a list of which see page 61) have been regularly inspected and found to
be conducted satisfactorily.
They number 7, against 10 in 1892.
Meat inspection in Germany is carried out in an infinitely more systematic
and thorough manner than in London. All cattle are inspected, both before and
after slaughter, in public "abattoirs" by highly-skilled and specially-trained
inspectors.
In London large quantities of diseased meat, infectious in character, escape
inspection, and are consumed daily. The wholesomeness of this meat is not
improved by its occasional admixture with stale and sewer-tainted bread, and its
subsequent conversion into sausage.
Duriug 1893, 4,918 and 2,763 animals were either killed at or brought dead into
Messrs. Harrison, Barber & Co.'s two knacker's yards, situated in Green-street and
Westcott-street, near Tabard-street.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
Summary of Representations, under Part II., made by the Medical Officer
of Health during the year 1893.
TABLE XXII.
| Premises. | Date of Official Representation. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 11, Kell Street | January 18th. | Closed with costs. |
| 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28, Brent's Court, Borough High Street | February 9th. | Closed with costs. Order since revoked by magistrate. |
| 8, 9, 10, and 11, Green Street | March 2nd | Closed with costs. |
| 34, Tower Street | May 11th. | Closed with costs. Since demolished. |
| 29, Gerridge Street | June 22nd. | Closed with costs. |
| Block II.—Nos. 1 to 28, Artizan's Buildings, Gun Street | Case withdrawn owing to defective legal technicality. | |
| 1, 2, 9, 10, and 11, Adam's Place, Borough High Street | October 10th. | Works completed, and costs ordered to be paid. |
| 8 and 10, Redcross Court, Borough High Street | October 10th. | Closed with costs. |
Summary.
Houses and tenements, respecting which representations were made to the Vestry
that they were in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation.
Houses and tenements 59
Inhabitants 340
In addition to the above a closing order, with costs, was made under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, in the case of the owner of the premises 55, Dodson
Street.