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remotest degree coiiduce to the health of the inhabitants.
One of the most gratifying features of the summary referred
to is, perhaps, that of magisterial interference being in no
one instance required to enforce any of the sanitary measures,
the prosecution of which has occupied the attention
of the authorities during the past year. It is equally
satisfactory to find that little or no opposition on the part
of the inhabitants has been offered to the complete fulfilment
of every sanitary requirement enjoined by the
the Metropolis Local Management Act.
All the premises within the sub-district used for the
slaughtering of cattle, sheep and pigs were inspected and
reported on in September last, with the usual result of
securing for each proprietor a renewal of the necessary
license. The cowhouses in like manner were examined
with a similar result, and the bakehouses continue to be
duly supervised, in accordance with the recent Act, having
reference to the better regulation of such places.
In concluding my report I can only repeat the hope 1
have frequently before given expression to, viz., that the
good sanitary status which this sub-district has acquired,
may be maintained, as it only can be maintained, by
future unrelaxing exertions towards the removal or abatement
of every known source or aggravant of preventible
disease.
D. C. NOËL,
Medical Officer of Health for Streatham, Tooting, and Balham.