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vision. I have visited several manufacturing premises during
the year, including Mr. Saunder's premises at Gainsborough
Road, where the business of a gut-scraper and fat-melter's has
been newly established, with the consent of the Metropolitan
Board of Works. Also three small premises where the business
of a gut-dresser or drier, or bladder-blower, was carried on in
such a way as to be a nuisance. The business was discontinued
in these last named cases. Although the cow-sheds were in fair
order generally, yet repairs or improvements were required in
42 out of the 88, chiefly consisting of lime-whiting, repairs
to the channels and paving of the sheds to a small extent, and
more extensive repairs to the paving of the yards. It was
necessary to oppose the renewal of the licenses to one cow-keeper
only, ou the ground of general neglect of the shed and yard,
and he was informed by the Magistrates that his license would
be refused ou the next occasion if more care were not used in
future. There was not any opposition to the renewal of the
slaughter-house licenses. Application was also made for the
granting of a new license, but it was withdrawn.
Very many of the nuisances removed under the notices
were caused by wilful damage, ignorance, or carelessness of the
tenants. As a specimen of the letters sometimes received in
answer to notices, I append one sent to one of the Inspectors :—
"I was at Place yesterday afternoon superintending
repairs at No. 6, the tenant of which maliciously broke the
closet pan, totally destroyed the water-waste preventer, and
put the copper door down the soil-pipe. With fair usage there
should never be any stoppage in the pipe, which is a nine-inch
(now stopped). I shall be there agaiu on Monday, and you
may depend on my attention. 1 have put the management
iuto the hands of Messrs. , who are weeding out the
worst tenants, who certainly contributed to hasten the death of
my late collector, who had, with me, to invoke on more than
one occasion the assistance of the Police. I should like to add
that the late tenant of No. 5 put up a 3-inch post for clothes