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bakehouses in East Battersea are in a cleanly and
sanitary condition and in accordance with the Board's
Regulations.
Cow-houses.
These are diminishing in number year
by year. The few left in the sub-district are in accordance
with the regulations.
Slaughterhouses.
All were in such a condition that their relicensing
was not opposed. It is to be desired
that a public slaughter-house under the control of the
Board may be before long established and private
slaughter-houses connected with dwellings be abolished.
Cholera, which in obedience to the laws of the progression
which it has hitherto observed when occurring
in this country should have been with us during 1885,
failed to put in an appearance. The fatal cases of
diarrhoea which usually proceed cholera were but 63
compared with 93 in the year 1884. It is therefore to
be hoped that we have escaped an epidemic, which we
are well prepared to meet should it appear. The disease
appears still to linger in the hotter and dirtier towns of
Southern Europe.
In conclusion I have to congratulate the Board upon
the satisfactory sanitary report which the condition of
the sub-district of East Battersea enables me to make ; a
condition which raflects much credit upon those having
charge of its sanitation, and by whose vigilant supervision
and courteous assistance the officers are enabled to perform
their duties with satisfaction to themselves and
credit to the sanitary authority under whom they act.