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transport can be obtained, afford the most healthy and
safest supply.
As regards the slaughter-houses, it is, perhaps,
fortunate that only a small proportion of the meat
supply is prepared in them. With a number of private
houses, where killing is done at such times as may be
most convenient to the proprietors, an efficient supervision
is impossible. London is in this respect far
behind many of the provincial towns, where all
slaughtering is done in municipal abattoirs, and the
whole process of dressing takes place under tbe supervision
of municipal officers properly qualified for the
work. Doubtless the need of an efficient supervision
of the meat supply will be one of the matters reported
on by the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis now
sitting.
Under the 26th Section of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1891, the District Inspector of Factories
forwards to the Sanitary Authority notices of new
workshops opened in the Parish. During the year 16
such notices have been received, the work-rooms being
duly inspected and entered on the register, which at the
end of the year contained particulars of 46 work-places.
When inspected, the rooms are measured up, and cards
are issued to the proprietors indicating how many
persons may be employed in each room, each card
being hung in its proper room. It has been found that
the proprietors appreciate the issue of such cards, as
they are thereby in a position to know the limits of