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place the usual sanitary supervision of all the slaughterhouses
within the parish; and this year, for the first
time, of all the cow-houses of those proprietors who have
desired to hold licenses under the amended Metropolis
Local Management Act.
The length of new sewers executed, and the extent of
open ditches, &c., cleansed, has been during the past year
something considerable; and this, taken with the fact of
preparations having been made to extend the high level
main sewer through certain parts of the sub-district,
which have long stood in need of this great work, cannot
fail to reassure those of the inhabitants who were beginning
to despair of the realization of this grand sanitary
measure, that the authorities under whose direction the
sewer is to be constructed, are now really in earnest in
carrying out the important undertaking referred to.
The progress of a work so greatly calculated to benefit
this parish will, no doubt, be watched with deep interest
by many a local sanitarian; but by no one with deeper
interest than myself.
JOHN MacDONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health for Clapham.