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the others storage and cooking of decomposed food in the
open air was prohibited.
It is expected that legislation will shortly place pigkeeping
under the same regulations as slaughter-houses
and cow-houses. At an interview between a deputation
from your Board, accompanied by the Clerk and the Medical
Officers and Surveyor for Battersea, and the President
of the Local Government Board—after a lucid and comprehensive
explanation of the whole subject by Mr.
Meaden, and some explanatory remarks of a technical
nature by the Medical Officers and Surveyor— Mr.
Stansfeld promised that a clause should be inserted in
his Public Health Bill in Parliament, giving the several
District Boards and other local authorities power to control
the keeping of pigs and other animals by means of a
licence, which could be withdrawn if they were not kept
in a proper condition, which licence should be granted by
and at the discretion of the District Boards, Should this
proposal be carried into effect, by receiving Parliamentary
sanction, then, and not till then, shall we be able to place
the keeping of animals under proper sanitary regulations,
so necessary to the comfort and health of the community.
The views held by us upon the important subject of the
water supply, and other matters of great interest, will be
found in the Report for the entire District, and the opinions
therein expressed being those of the whole of the Medical
Officers of Health, will carry with them the weight the
several topics merit.
W. H. KEMPSTER,
JOSEPH OAKMAN,
Medical Officers of Health for the Eastern and Western
Sub-districts of Battersea respectively.