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For the renewal of licences to Cow-houses, 41 applications were made,
and all were granted. One fresh application for a licence to a new Cow-house
was also made, and was granted conditionally.
78 Slaughter-houses and 42 Cow-houses were therefore licensed.
My annual inspection of these places, prior to the licensing, proved them
to be in a satisfactory condition.
SUMMONSES.
During the year ending 25th March, 1885, five summonses were issued
by direction of the Sanitary Committee. Two were for the recovery of the
cost of disinfection incurred by the Vestry in default of the owners complying
with the usual notices, but both the amounts 18s. and £117s. 6d. respectively,
were paid, together with 2s. costs in each case, before the summonses could be
heard.
Two summonses were issued on account of defective drainage, and in
the one case the required works were carried out and the summons was
withdrawn on the payment of 2s. costs. In the second case the magistrate
made an order for the abatement of the nuisance and the execution of
the necessary works, and this order having been disobeyed, penalties amounting
to £5 and 4s. costs were inflicted upon the owner, when the work was
done and the penalties paid.
The fifth summons, which was also issued under the Nuisances Removal
Acts, was one of a rather unusual character, the cause of the nuisance being
mainly, if not altogether, in the district of Saint Pancras, whilst the nuisance,
in effect, was obviously in Islington, from the flow of sewage over the Brecknock
Road within the Islington boundary.
The Nuisance was created by a builder who had leased land in Saint
Pancras and had re-let it for building purposes, he himself being under covenant
to the freeholders to construct the necessary main sewers and to make the
roads. A new street called Lupton Street was formed, in which he constructed
a 12-inch pipe drain which became an elongated cesspool, from the
fact that no proper outlet had been provided.
In order to connect this intended sewer, which he had brought a few feet
within the Islington boundary, with the main drainage of the Metropolis, it