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St Pancras 1875

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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precedings; and I am happy to think that the Slaughtermen themselves
coincide with the necessity of strictly complying with Sanitary
requirements. There are still several Slaughter-houses which I should
like to see abolished; but even these compare very favourably with
their state before the new law came into force.
COW SHEDS
are, as a rule, well kept; but some few of them give trouble through
want of cleanliness, and the keeping of an excessive number of cows.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOS. STEVENSON, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health and
Examiner of Gas.
Sanitary Department,
Vestry Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
June, 1876.