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THE SLAUGHTER AND COW-HOUSES IN ISLINGTON,
1881-82.
At the annual licensing of 1881, there were 85 applications
for the renewal of licenses to slaughter-houses, which were all
granted.
For the renewal of licenses to cow-houses 47 applications
were made and granted.
One fresh application for a license to keep cows was also
granted without opposition.
85 slaughter-houses and 48 cow-houses were therefore
licensed.
The result of my annual inspection was satisfactory.
THE BAKEHOUSES OF ISLINGTON.
In my Report for the year 1879, I wrote as follows, and I reproduce
it here owing to what has since transpired with reference
to the condition of some of the bakehouses of the Metropolis.
"The visits to bakehouses were not so numerous as in former
"years, "The Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863," having been
"repealed by the consolidated "Factory and Workshops Act,
"1878," which came into operation on the 1st of January, 1879,
"and under which the bakehouses will now be inspected by Her
''Majesty's Inspectors of Factories, who, by the 4th section, are
"directed to give notice of any nuisance remediable under " The
"Nuisances' Removal Acts," to the sanitary authority.
"Whether this new legislation will tend to the improvement
"of the condition of the bakehouses, or whether they will gradually
"fall into the state of neglect they were in prior to the passing of
"the Act of 1863, time alone will show ; but there can be no
"doubt as to the beneficial results of the supervision constantly
"exercised since the end of 1866-67 by the Vestry as the Local