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The drairihge was improved in 145 houses.
Cesspools emptied, filled up, and trapped water-closets provided in
138 houses.
Cesspools emptied in 134 houses.
New pans, traps, and water supplied to 146 closets.
New water-closets erected for 11 houses.
Water laid on to'closets in 132 houses.
New dust-bins erected in 45 houses.
Old dust-bins repaired in 18 houses.
The paving of yards and cellars improved in 114 cases.
Water laid on to 18 houses.
Houses cleansed and limewhit«d to the number of 145.
Overcrowding abated in 17 houses.
Pigs removed from 23 sties.
Cow-sheds improved to the number of 102.
Heaps of manure removed from mews, wharves, &c., in 160 cases.
Other nuisances not named above, to the number of 20, were removed.
The Inspectors report, that in carrying out these improvements, 4715
inspections were made; slaughter-houses visited 831 times; the cow-houses,
986 times; and the markets visited 499 times. Written notices of advice
were served to the number of 534, the final notices numbered 49, and in 26
cases summonses were necessary, in consequence of the notices having been
neglected. The Police Courts were visited 67 times.
There have been seized, as unfit for food, 111/2 pads of plaice, 5 pads of
soles, 34 pads of mackerel, 2 barrels of sprats, 155 hake and whiting, and 2
barrels of herrings; also a large quantity of rotten apples, oranges, and plums,
and 85 rabbits.
In the autumn of last year, a new law came into operation, by which no
dairyman can keep cows in London in any place which has not been previously
licensed for that purpose. The license is to be granted annually by the
Justices of the Peace, at a Special Sessions held in October; and it is necessary
that every cowkeeper, who wishes to obtain a license for keeping cows, should
give a fortnight's notice to the Vestry, of his intention to apply to the Sessions,
in order that the Sanitary Officers may inspect the places, and report on their
condition to the Vestry. It then becomes the duty of the Vestry to shew
cause against the granting of the license in any case in which the place
appears to be unfitted for the purpose. In consequence of the short time
which had elapsed between the passing of the Act and its coming into
operation, the magistrates were disposed to be more lenient in their requirements
than they intend to be on future occasions. The nuisance arising from
cowsheds in a crowded district is much greater than would be supposed by
those who have only been in the habit of seeing cows in the fields, or at farmyards
in the country. The food on which they are fed (namely, brewers'
grains and vegetable matters, such as mangle wurzel, refuse from Covent
Garden Market, and, in some cases, distillers' wash), in warm weather, gives
rise to very disagreeable smells; and the close manner in which the cows are