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lesser amendments have been effected, whilst in the fourteenth the
required works were not carried out, the renewal of the licence in
that case not being again sought for. With these results of your
action I am bound to say that we have much cause to be gratified,
but it will be our duty to endeavour, as opportunities may occur, to
effect further improvements so that these places, the prolonged
existence of which has been decreed by Act of Parliament, may be
brought permanently into a thoroughly good condition. A few
indeed it is true are still left which are so badly situated and so
irreparably unfit, as to make any satisfactory alteration an utter
impossibility, but of these I must hope that the licences will not
continue to be long renewed. Opposed as I am for reasons stated
in my previous reports to the existence of private Slaughter Houses,
I am at the same time most loyally disposed, as your Medical Officer
of Health, to use every exertion in making those that remain as
perfect as possible, so that Islington may at least deserve the
reputation of possessing the best Slaughter Houses in the Metropolis,
and with this desire I am grateful to know that I can implicitly rely
upon the cordial co-operation and assistance both of the Vestry and
their Sanitary Committee.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR 1874-5.
Table No. X.
This table of our sanitary work has been prepared in the usual
manner, showing in the first place the numberandvarietyofthe inspections,
re-inspections, and calls made by the district inspectors during the
year, and in the second part are set forth the amendments which
have been made. In addition to these improvements the three
District Inspectors reported that dust was required to be removed
from 5925 houses, this number being quite exclusive of the removals
ordered as the result of the special work of the Inspector of Dust,
which is stated in the note at the bottom of the table. The number
of inspections, &c. recorded, must of necessity vary very considerably
from time to time, as it is often affected by the character of the
work, and moreover, in our own case, by the circumstance that for a
considerable time our Sanitary Department was short handed.
Furthermore, a change of Inspectors who were new to their work
and consequently had much to learn as to its requirements and in