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All over the district the question of overcrowding has not been
lost sight of. A common standard of 400 cubic feet per head (two
children under 12 counting as one adult) has been adopted.
Reform in a matter like overcrowding is, and must be, slow and
delicate work. The lack of accommodation for the displaced is,
of course, the chief difficulty.*
COWHOUSES AND SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The following five cow houses and four slaughter houses have
been inspected and supervised during the year :—
Cow Houses.
Slaughter Houses.
4, Sermon Lane (54 cows). 14, Penton Street.
230, St. John's Street (30 cows). 20, Amwell Street.
27, Whiskin Street (19 cows). 191, Goswell Road.
40, Rawstorne Street (9 cows). 161, St. John Street.
30A, Great Sutton Street (4 cows).
The Slaughter House at 138, St. John Street, is now discontinued.
The annual licensing of these places is undertaken by the London
County Council, but the local Sanitary Authority has right of entry
for the purpose of examining whether there is any contravention
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or any by-law under it,
with regard to insanitary conditions, periodical removal of manure
or other refuse matter, etc.
BAKEHOUSES.
During the year the following 45 Bakehouses were regularly
inspected :—
Upper District.—21 and 53, Amwell Street ; 76 and 96, Caledonian
Road; 2, 55 and 65, Chapel Street; 1, Collier
Street; 13, Field Place; 45A, Henry Street; 92, King's
Cross Road; 7 and 43, Liverpool Road; 44, North
Street; 18, Penton Street; 190, St. John Street Road;
42, Southampton Street; 72, White Lion Street; and
22, Wynford Road.
* It may be well to state that arrangements have been made by the Public
Health Committee of the Finsbury Borough Council for a Special Report on the
Housing Question in Finsbury at an early date. In consequence of this it has
been considered undesirable to enter more fully into this question in the present
report. G.N.