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The effect of the system is not seen in comparing the two years 1891 and 1892
in which the dust complaints numbered respectively 14,634 and 10,335, because
the system was only brought irto working order in the second quarter of the year,
but by comparing the last 6 months of the two years, the effect is brought into
prominence.

The number of complaints in January, February, and March, 1893, when the
contracts terminated, were 15, 12, and 22. respectively, and in April, May, and
June, when the new contracts commenced, they were 32, 30, and 8. These figures
prove incontestably that the system is an unqualified success.
NUISANCES.
Dead Animals.—The Table 9a in the Appendix records the number and kinds
of nuisances abated during the year, but one particular kind of nuisance, namely
dead animals, does not appear there. In towns there are always present a large
number of small animals, especially cats and dogs. When these animals die or are
killed, paved streets and paved yards offer no facilities for their interment.
Furthermore, many live domestic animals fall into such a state of health or become
so numerous as to require to be destroyed, and householders have great difficulty
in destroying them as well as in disposing of the carcases. Poisoning, hanging,
and drowning the animals, and casting the bodies into the canals, roadways, an i
vacant spaces are the usual means resoited to, and give rise to many minor
nuisances.
It may be worth the consideration of your Vestry to set apart some place
where these animals might be painlessly put out of existence and their bodies
disposed of without nuisance. This would tend to prevent the accumulation of
large numbers of dead animals in the Regent's Canal, on vacant spaces, and in the
thoroughfares, &c., and be a great boon to perplexed ratepayers.
V.—FOOD.
FOOD PREMISES.
The Slaughter-houses. No contravention of the Rye-laws has been recorded.
The Cowsheds have also been kept in compliance with the Regulations.
The Dairies and Milkshops, as to the storage of milk, are controlled by the
County Council.
The Bakehouses have been inspected and the usual cleansing enforced under
the Factory and Workshop Acts.
The Fish-frying Shops have been from time to time inspected, and in one
instance an alleged nuisance has been abated by the enlargement of the fire hood
and the lengthening of the chimney by a tall-boy.