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THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES AND COW HOUSES
IN ISLINGTON.
It will be seen that the foregoing Bye Laws, which I now publish
for information, were only confirmed at the latter end of May, 1875,
and it is since then that the Metropolitan Board of Works have
appointed their own Inspectors to see that these Bye Laws are
carried out. The powers of the Vestries, however, having been
reserved to them notwithstanding the introduction of the new Local
Authority, I did not feel it to be my duty to wait for any action
which the Board might see fit to take, and I therefore as usual
carefully inspected prior to the Annual Licencing of J 874 the whole
of the 103 licensed Slaughter Houses and the 72 licensed Cow Houses
in the Parish, as well as four other places where it was proposed that
Cows should be kept, and I made a full report thereon to the
Sanitary Committee. Of these four just mentioned one only was
licensed conditionally, and the necessary works to this new Cow
House have since been thoroughly carried out, but no application
was made for Licences in respect to the other three, of which two
were to have been conditionally and one absolutely opposed.
The renewal of the Licences of two of the old Cow Houses was
also absolutely opposed, as Cows had not been kept upon the
premises for some time, and the applicants were not in attendance
on the day of licensing. The number of Cow Houses actually
licensed was therefore 71.
With regard to the Slaughter Houses there were of course no
fresh applications. In future such applications must be first made
to the Metropolitan Board of Works, but I deemed it advisable to
point out to the Sanitary Committee many of the older places, to
which I thought very serious objection could be taken, and upon
their recommendation your Vestry authorised an absolute opposition
to eight of them and a conditional opposition to 14 others,
with a view to the extinction of the former and the permanent
improvement of the latter. Of the eight, the Licences to five were
refused, and to three granted, so that in all 98 Slaughter Houses
were licensed by the Justices. Of the fourteen which were licensed
conditionally, and are included in this number, three have been since
re-built, seven considerably altered and improved, and in three,