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200 feet of pipe sewer have been laid down at the expense of the
owners, and numerous private drains throughout the parish have
been connected with the main sewer. On the whole, then, a somewhat
large amount of the most effective drainage will have been
accomplished in this parish, before the issue of the next Annual
Report.
Apart from what has been set forth in the table above referred
to, it may be mentioned that all the slaughter houses within the
sub-district were, as usual, carefully supervised and reported on to
the Board, and that the cow houses likewise, under the Amended
Metropolis Local Management Act, were similarly inspected, prior
to their proprietors receiving for the first time licenses for their
continuance. Improvements of various kinds were suggested in
several of these places with the view of rendering them better
adapted for the purposes for which they were erected, and it is
satisfactory to state that in every instance these suggestions were
fully acted upon, and the improvements adopted.
Lastly, it is gratifying to be able to say that all the sanitation
noted in the table referred to, was this year brought about without
the necessity of a single appeal to magisterial interference—indeed
many improvements were accomplished without even an appeal to
the District Board—private recommendations, in numerous instances,
having sufficed to effect all that was required.
Before leaving this subject I ought to refer to two other important
measures that have been carried out during the year, but
not noted in the table, viz.: the completion by the Board of the permanent
pavement of the High-street, and the erection by the Parish
authorities, on the site of the old pest houses on the Lower Common,
of a number of model cottages for respectable labourers. Both these
measures (frequently urged in these reports) may be said to supply
requirements long considered necessary by the inhabitants, the one
giving to the principal thoroughfare of the town an aspect of
cleanliness and comfort, which before it did not nor could not
possess, and the other affording some relief to overcrowded