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but an order to remove the water-closet lrom immediate
connexion with one bakehouse was resisted. Upon taking
the case before the Magistrate I obtained an order to remove,
upon w hich the work was at once carried out. I am therefore
able to report that the whole of the bakehouses in Eastern
Battersea are in a proper and cleanly condition.
Cow-houses.—There are now but three cow-houses in the
sub-district, and as it is most undesirable that milch cows
should be kept in towns it is to be hoped that all milk
will eventually be brought from the country.
Slaughter-houses.—There are at the present time four
licensed slaughter-houses in East Battersea. There have
been no complaints during the year as to the manner in
which they have been conducted. It would however be much
better if public abattoirs were built in each parish.
Sanitary Operations.—A large amount of sanitary work, the
result chiefly of defects discovered by domiciliary inspection,
has been effected during the past year. The very exhaustive
house-to-house inspection made by the additional inspectors
appointed during 1883 had the good result of remedying most
of the grosser nuisances,— and year by year fewer will be left
to be detected by the Inspectors of Nuisances.
The plan of appointing an Assistant Sanitary Inspector to
each Ward under the Superintendence of the Surveyor and
myself and controlled more immediately by the Chief
Inspector of Nuisances, Mr. Richards, will ensure more
frequent and regular inspection of every house in the subdistrict;
without which, defects of great moment to the public
may remain undiscovered and consequently unremedied for
a considerable period. Without such increase in the
sanitary staff it would have been impossible to carry out
the amount of work exhibited in the sub-joined table, in considering
which there should be taken into consideration the
fact that for eight months of the year under consideration
there was but one assistant inspector for the sub-district.