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was issued to the Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities, signed by
their Clerk of the Council on the 21st March, 1901, also bears
out this view, and I am privately given to understand that at about
this period their various Inspectors who had been engaged upon
the work of Inspection of the above-mentioned premises, were
notified that they need not continue such duties. Subsequently,
however, they appear to have again taken up the work.
In October, 1902, on the receipt of the notices from intending
applicants for licenses, which these applicants are bound to
send to the Local Authority, the various premises of this class in
the Borough were specially visited by me, and the result of my
inspection was notified to the Public Health Committee, when it
was decided that none of the licenses should be objected to. In
the case of one of the premises, namely, that occupied by a large
Dairy Company, which had been in use as a cowshed for many
years, and had been regularly inspected and licensed by the
County Council up till then, it was considered by your officers
that certain alterations should be carried out if this cowshed were
to continue to be licensed for the purpose. After several interviews
and much correspondence, the occupiers agreed to carry
out certain works to bring their cowshed into conformity with the
requirements, and some of these works had been carried out,
while the remaining matters were in hand. For some reason,
however, which was not divulged to this Authority, the County
Council themselves objected to the license and did not
grant the same. No notice of this objection on the part of the
County Council was given to this Authority or its Officers, and
therefore, we were unable to take any steps, either for or against
the decision, at the time of the licensing meeting. On the face of
it, this proceeding seems rather peculiar, in that the Public Health