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premises are unsuitable for the sale of milk, also the power to Sanitary
Authorities to require the surrender of offensive trade refuse and unsound
food. It also proposes certain definite Sanitary regulations for premises used
for the sale, etc., of food for human consumption. It also empowers the
London County Council to make by-laws with regard to certain buisnesses,
namely, fish-frying, fishcuring, and rag and bone dealing.
Diseased Cattle.—In September a communication was received from the
Local Government Board suggesting that the Sanitary Officers should be
instructed to watch closely cattle markets, slaughterhouses, and knackers'
yards, and in this connection the movement of cattle is of importance, coupled
with the list of slaughterhouses at the end of this Report in appendix B.
Metropolitan Cattle Market
Ritchie—Mayor.
Notice is hereby given that the Regulations hereunder set out have been
made by the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis.
Guildhall, E.C.,
March, 1904.
REGULATIONS AS TO THE DRIVING OF CATTLE.
By virtue of the Metropolitan Market Act, 1857, I, Edward Richard Henry,
the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, make the following Regulations
with respect to the driving of cattle, and for the control of persons driving or
assisting to drive cattle, and also with respect to the days and hours, and the
•streets and roads by which cattle may be driven within so much of the Metropolitan
Police District as is included within the City of Westminster, and the
Boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, The Tower Hamlets, Lambeth and Southwark,
defined by 2 and 3 Wm. IV., chap. 64:—
Regulations an to the Driving of Cattle.
1.—No drove of oxen, cows or bullocks exceeding the number of ten shall
be driven withiu the aforesaid limits unless a licensed drover shall
precede such drove, under a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, to
be forfeited by the person driving such cattle.
2.—No drove of sheep, pigs or lambs exceeding forty shall be driven
within the aforesaid limits unless attended by two drovers at least,
and if any person shall drive, or permit or suffer to be driven, within
the aforesaid limits, more than forty sheep, pigs or lambs in any one
drove without being accompanied by some other licensed person to
assist in attending such drove, every person so offending shall for
every offence forfeit any sum not exceeding forty shillings.
3.—No person engaged in driving cattle, calves, sheep, pigs, or lambs
within the aforesaid limits shall use any stick or other instrument
with a goad or point of greater length than a quarter of on inch,
under a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.