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Raymond, the Inspector of Nuisances in factories and workshops,
and the notices as to limewhiting, &c., were served in those cases
considered necessary. See Inspector's Report, page 93.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND COWHOUSES.
Fourteen slaughterhouses, (8 in Poplar and 6 in Bromley), and 11
cowhouses, (4 in Poplar and 7 in Bromley), were inspected upon receiving
notices from the owners of their intention to apply for the
renewal of their licenses to the London County Council. In no
instance was the Board advised to oppose the license.
In the preceding year 1898 there were in Poplar 9 slaughterhouses
and 5 cowhouses.
INSANITARY BARGES.
On the 31st July, at the Cannon Street Hotel, I was invited to
attend a Conference of Local Authorities, re Insanitary Barges.
The cause of the convening of the conference was that the notice
of the Sanitary Committee had been called to the insanitary condition
of barges not registered under the Canal Boats Act, and that on
board of such vessels men through various causes were obliged to
remain, or in other words, sleep and live.
Mr. Potts, the Clerk to the Board,—who had all the trouble and
extra labour in calling the conference, acting as its Clerk and carrying
on the correspondence in connection with an endeavour to obtain an
amendment to the existing law,— no doubt, will presently in his Annual
Report, enter fully into the result of the proceedings and conference.
It is as well to remember that apart from the registering of canal
boats under the Canal Boats Act, a Local Authority has jurisdiction