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however, a certain amount of discretion in the hands of the Justices of
the Peace. During the past Session of Parliament it has been proposed
that duly licensed private Slaughter Houses shall not be considered
nuisances under the Act, and the Vestry petitioned in favour of the Bill
which was brought in with this object; but I may be permitted to point
out that many of the private Slaughter Houses in the Parish are now in
very undesirable situations, although licensed from year to year as a convenience
to the trade, and so presumably in the interests of the public ; and
it appears to me that the abolition of them all would be in the end advantageous
not only to the parish at large, but also to the butchers themselves, although
it is true that they are no longer the nuisances that they were before they were
made subject to inspection by the officers of the Sanitary Authority.
Since the last Annual Report, Messrs. Hatfield and Messrs. Wallis the
Varnish Makers of Belle Isle, have in consequence of representations
from the Sanitary Committee (under the 54th Section of the Metropolitan
Buildings' Act, 1844,) discontinued the use of their premises for the purpose
of Varnish making.
In conclusion, I wish to express my entire satisfaction with the way in
which both the office and the inspectorial work of the Department have been
carried out by the officers appointed to those duties.
June 29th, 1872,
W. H. CORFEELD,
Medical Officer of Health.