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must be resorted to as the only means of lessening the
decomposition of stagnant sewage matter, and the generation
of noxious gases.
I need scarcely add that the usual careful supervision
has been undertaken of all the slaughter and cow-houses
within the parish, and licences were renewed at the proper
period without opposition, except in one case, in which
such licence was refused on account of a noncompliance
with the regulations, and the consequent unsuitableness of
the premises.
I am pleased to report the fact that all the sanitation
mentioned in the table referred to was accomplished
without magisterial interference except in one solitary
instance.
Water Supply-—As this subject will be amply
discussed in the introductory portion of this report, I need
not offer any remarks beyond expressing my regret at
seeing no advance made in the arrangements for a
constant supply, without which complaints will never
cease to be made of the unfitness of the water supplied
through the medium of ill-constructed cisterns and other
dirt-engendering receptacles.
For my opinions on some other matters of general
interest I must beg to refer my readers to the remarks
applying to the entire district, in which, I need scarcely
say, I fully concur.
JOHN MAC DONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health for Clapham.