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opinion it would be a private burial ground, and there would
not necessarily be any one present at the interment besides the
officials of the Home. Also that there might not be a sufficient
sanitary supervision of the grave before it was filled in after an
interment. That there were other obvious objeotions which I
need not here mention, whilst there was no advantage to be
gained, as a piece of ground could be bought in the Abney Park
Cemetery and, by an arrangement with the Company, a doorway
oould be made in the wall leading to the graves. To
this Mr. Hoffman replied that if the matter were pressed by
the solicitors he would not advise the necessary permission
to be granted by the Home Secretary without previously holding
a publio enquiry. I have not heard anything more on the
subjet, so that it is probably dropped.
Cow-theds and Slaughter-houses.—In company with the
View Committee I visited all the cow-sheds and some of the
slaughter-houses, and found them in a fairly good state, except
Mr. Rumball's, of Upper Clapton, two of whose sheds were dirty
at the time of more than one visit, and whose yard also generally
contained rather large aooumulations of dung. The Committee
decided to oppose the renewal of the license unless means were
taken for keeping the sheds and yard clean, which were subsequently
done, so that no complaint has been received, nor any
undue accumulation found on inspection from that date.
Applications were received for the renewal of licenses to cowsheds
situated on 85 separate premises, when 22 sheds were
found in a somewhat unsatisfactory state, as they required
either cleansing, repairing the channels of the sheds, or
paving of the yards. Applications were also made to the
Metropolitan Board of Works for licenses to a proposed new
cow-shed and a new slaughter-house. The Sanitary Committee
viewed these premises, and reported thereon to the Metropolitan
Board of Works. The applications were refused in both
instances.
Sanitary Inspection.—During the year there have been