View report page

Horse Slaughterer. The horse slaughtering premises
situated in this Borough has been visited by the Inspector on 11
occasions, and by your Medical Officer of Health on other
occasions, and has always been found to be in a satisfactory
condition.
Other Scheduled Offensive Trades. There are in the
Borough also one fat melter and blood boiler, and in connection
with the Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, there are nine gut
scrapers, three tripe boilers, one blood store, and 49 slaughterers,
whose premises, as far as sanitary matters are concerned, have
been kept under observation from time to time.
Smoke Observations. Two hundred and seventy observations
have been taken, and in every case where black smoke has
been found to be emitted in such quantity as to be a nuisance, on
representation being made to the Committee, a statutory notice has
been authorized to be served, and as compliance with such notice
has been made, by the respective owners of the premises, no legal
proceedings have been required.
The Officers of the Public Control Department of the
London County Council, have frequently directed our attention
to nuisances of this character, when the premises indicated have
received the necessary attention at our hands.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order. Particular
inspection of each of these premises registered under this order
in the Borough, has been carried out as occasion allowed throughout
the year, and in each case minute details have been taken
in reference to the condition of the premises for the conduct
of such business, and it is intended to go through the whole of
these premises in a similar manner during this year. One hundred