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Dustmen after removing the Dust from the houses of the inhabitants
during the hottest months.
A new departure has been taken during the year in respect to
the fumigation of infected rooms, the Sanitary Committee deeming it
desirable to accept a part of the responsibility on behalf of the Vestry.
An extra Labourer is therefore employed, who now fumigates
the infected rooms with Sulphur as soon after the information is
received at the Office as possible.
The plan has worked well and prevents delay in the carrying out
of the most urgent part of the disinfection, and it also removes the
objection, so frequently urged previously by the Owners of property,
who have hitherto been chiefly called upon to do the work, to sending
in workmen who do not generally like to enter before the fumigation
has at least been done.
THE SLAUGHTER AND COW-HOUSES IN ISLINGTON, 1887-88.
At the Annual Licensing of 1887 there were 76 applications for
the renewal of licenses to Slaughter-houses, and the whole of them
were granted.
For the renewal of licenses to Cow-houses, 36 applications were
made and the whole were granted.
76 Slaughter-houses and 36 Cow-houses were therefore licensed.
My annual inspection of these places, prior to the licensing, proved
them to be in a satisfactory condition.
DWELLINGS OF THE POOR.
Of the 76 houses closed as unfit for human habitation in 1884, by
order of the Magistrate, seven in Elliott's Place only remain shut.
Attempts have been made from time to time by repairing, &c., to make
these houses habitable, but unless the owner carries out considerable
structural alterations, which he appears unwilling to do, it will be
impossible to effect any permanent improvement in the Sanitary
condition of these houses, so as to render them again fit for habitation