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Sanitary Department during the summer, also opposed, and the
licence was refused by the Justices.
It might be well here to explain that the Slaughter House itself
is not ill adapted for the purpose designed, but the only approach to
it being through a narrow paved passage (leading from a main
thoroughfare), down which cattle and sheep had to pass in, and the
offal and manure had to be brought out in wheelbarrows, the refuse
being sometimes deposited upon the pavement before being put into
the cart, this, in addition to the fact that the Slaughter House had
been rather extensively used during the year by the then occupier in
killing for the market, had caused the place to become so great
a nuisance to the inhabitants that I could not but deem it desirable
to advise its entire suppression. This case having entirely arisen
out of local circumstances, of which the Metropolitan Board of
Works could have no knowledge, they did not take any part in the
opposition which was successfully raised to the granting of the
licence.
As regards the Cow Houses, the one new application for
a licence was refused, whilst another of the applicants not being
present the licence lapsed, so that the number of Cow Houses
actually licensed was 70, and the number of Slaughter Houses
94, which, as regards repair and general arrangements, it is gratifying
to know will compare most favourably with any in the
Metropolis.
THE DUSTING OF THE PARISH.
In the note to which reference has already been made at the
bottom of Table No. XI., it is recorded that during the twelve
months over which the Table extends, viz., Lady Day, 1875, to Lady
Day, 1876, the Inspector of Dust visited 21,614 houses, and found
that dust was required to be removed from 9,564, or just 44 per cent.
of the houses visited. To these 9,564 there must be added the 6,693
removals, which were reported as being necessary by the other
Inspectors, making a total of 16,257 premises, from which the
contractors were required to remove dust, consequent upon the
initiative of your Inspectors, as compared with a total of 16,345 in
1874-75. During the same period, letters and postal cards were
recorded in the Sanitary Department, requesting the removal of dust