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The slaughter-houses, cow-sheds, and bakehouses have
been regularly inspected and kept clean.
No application for a license was opposed by the Vestry
at the annual licensing of slaughter-houses and cowsheds;
nor was either of the applications for licenses for
slaughter-houses opposed by the Metropolitan Board of
Works. This Board has now obtained similar powers with
regard to cow-sheds, dairies, and milk-shops, and has
issued bye-laws for their regulation. This fact, however, in
no way interferes with the powers of your Sanitary Officers
in these matters.
By the Factory and Workshop Act (1878) the Bakehouse
Regulation Act (1863) is repealed, and the Inspection
of bakehouses becomes one of the duties of the Inspector
of Factories; but any nuisance at a factory, "punishable
or remediable under the law relating to Public Health," is
still within the province of the Medical Officer of Health,
and it is provided that in such cases the Inspector under
the new Act "may take with him into a factory or a workshop
a Medical Officer of Health, Inspector of Nuisances,
or other Officer of the Sanitary Authority."
Having been requested by the Vicar and Churchwardens
to give my opinion as to the eligibility of the site in the
Burial Ground at the rear of the Vestry Offices in Mount
Street for the proposed Public Mortuary, "and whether
there would be any sanitary objections thereto," I reported
favourably on the site, and the Faculty for the erection of a
Public Mortuary there has since been granted by the
Chancellor of the Diocese of London, notwithstanding a
certain amount of opposition from the owners of the neighbouring
property.
Dr. Tristram, in giving judgment, "alluded to the
evidence given as to the danger of allowing the bodies of
persons who had died from infectious diseases to remain in